Happy Birthday!

It's almost my birthday and, coincidentally, the third birthday of the Famous Hairdos of Popular Music project. A friend sent this beautiful collage and two hairdo drawings to my P.O. Box today.

My friend Lindsey is one of the organizers of Zine Fest Houston, which went down this past Spring, and she offered to sell some of The Famous Hairdos books and give out postcards for people to draw on. This is awesome enough, but today I received this early birthday card and two drawings by zine fest attendees. The drawings are below, and be sure to check out Lindsey's comics and art at weakhighlights.com. Thanks as always to the drawers and kind friends who have allowed this silly project to thrive for three years.

Elvis was a hero to most

Thanks to the awesome people who submitted these drawings and thanks to Chuck D.

This postcard arrived at the Famous Hairdos P.O. Box from Chicago, Illinois. It held up to the journey somewhat better than the rendering of Loretta Lynn featured at the end of Monday's post. I love this drawing. Thanks to everyone who puts something in the mail to keep this project going.

Fleeting Pages

I was approached about a month ago regarding an interesting project going on right now in Pittsburgh. In a recently shuttered Borders bookstore (a two-story, 24,000 sq foot behemoth), some enterprising folks have set out to fill that space with an expo for small press books for one month only. They're calling it Fleeting Pages. In their own words:

Taking over (taking back?) a space, left empty by a failed big box bookstore, for one month, starting MAY 7th, and filling it with independent & self-published work of all kinds, book arts, workshops, and events. All revolving around written self-expression.

I sent them five copies of the latest volume of The Famous Hairdos of Popular Music to sell. So if you live in Pennsylvania, you should make a trip down. But even if you can't support this rad project in person, they are also selling stuff online, on the Internet! Here's the link to their page, and here is the listing for my book. Check it out!