November / December Events

For those of you in Oregon, there are five Stone Soup events coming up...

 

Nov 4-29  

Emerald Art Center Exhibit

Show of Stone Soup Comic Strip Artwork

Emerald Art Center / Springfield

Reception Friday Nov. 14th • 5:30 - 7:30

Nov. 18  •  7pm

Talk / Book Signing

Springfield Library

Nov. 19  •  2pm

Demo / Book Signing

University of Oregon Bookstore

Eugene

Nov. 22  •  2pm

Book Signing / Talk

Barnes & Noble

Eugene Valley River Center

Dec. 6 • 10am-6pm

2008 Author Artists Faire

A Benefit for the Lane Library League 

Summer Reading Program

This very fun event is in its 9th year and features 40 authors and artists

Lane Events Center (Fairgrounds) Next to Holiday Market

Eugene

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I'll have my newest book, This Might Not Be Pretty, the seventh Stone Soup collection, at all events.

If you can't attend an event and you'd like an autographed book,

there's an order form on the stonesoupcartoons.com website.

Meanwhile... Don't Forget to Vote!!!

Comments

[denese]

hi, jan! i was at toonfest. you might remember me: i was the very large woman who brought her own copy of one of your books to be signed. anyway, i'm a big reader. i read a lot of everything, and i just finished robert b. parker's newest spenser book "rough weather". i only mention this because on page 269 spenser is reading the newspaper in his office (he loves the sports and a select few comics including tank mcnamara and arlo and janis--this is not the first book to mention these strips by name) and the book says:

'I was studying a strip called Stone Soup, which seemed pretty good, and might fill the void left by Calvin & Hobbes,...'

I thought you might want to know.

Denese

[Jan Eliot]

Hi Denese,
I remember you quite well! How nice of you to post this comment and tell me about the Robert B. Parker book. First, I have never read them and now must... and second, how amazing that my strip is mentioned. Well, I'm off to the bookstore...

I hope you had a nice time at Toonfest. What a great event. And THANKS for bringing your book to be signed. Made my day.

Best,
Jan

[denese]

Glad to make your day. I really like your strip. Hope you enjoy the Spenser books. They're not for everyone.

[cheryle]

what kind of dog is biscuit?
Bull Terrier?

[Jan Eliot]

Biscuit is based on one of my dogs, a Schipperke. I got her as a puppy in the early days of Stone Soup and her hyper nature inspired me to add her to the strip. But Schipperke's are all black and have no tail, not great for a cartoon dog. So I morphed my dog's personality, face and ears into a black and white dog that reminds me most of a Jack Russell.