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Happenings

06/24/2008 Comic-making workshops Matt Dembicki (Mr. Big) be hosting another creating comics summer program this year with the Fairfax County (Va.) Library System. Below the are the dates, times and locations. The program is for kids ages 12-18 and it's free. Date Time Branch June 23 7:00 p.m. George Mason Regional July 7 7:00 p.m. Martha Washington July 9 7:00 p.m. City of Fairfax Regional July 14 7:00 p.m. Chantilly Regional July 15 7:00 p.m. Lorton July 19 2:30 p.m. Kingstowne July 21 7:00 p.m. Burke Centre July 30 7:00 p.m. Centreville Regional In addition, Matt will be hosting two workshops at the International Children's Festival in September in Vienna, Va. Click here for more info. more info

06/13/2008 'Trickster' sneak peek I've been lucky enough to illustrate a wonderful story by Abenaki storytellers James and Joseph Bruchac called "Azban and the Crayfish" for the upcoming 200-plus page Trickster anthology. I grew up in the Northeast and have a fondness for raccoons and crayfish, so it suit me just fine! more info

06/06/2008 preview pages! Sorry I missed last week. Here is a two page story from the book. more info

06/03/2008 CrumbSnatchers preview Leading up to the release of CrumbSnatchers in October, every friday I am going to be posting pages from the book and some other extras that might not be in the book. Read and enjoy. more info

04/26/2008 ISR interview on 'Mr. Big' Check the Indie Spinner Rack podcast for interviews with Day Prize nominees at the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo (SPACE) in Columbus, Ohio, last month. It Includes a chat with Carol and Matt Dembicki of Mr. Big, which won the Day Prize. Matt also talks a little about the upcoming Trickster anthology. more info

04/24/2008 Trickster Interview Little Foot is working on a project called TRICKSTER. You can read an interview with Matt Dembicki and Christian Beranek about the book over at BLUE CORN COMICS. Special thanks to Robert Schmidt for his interest and care in creating the article. More news as it comes in... more info

03/05/2008 Matt and Carol Dembicki win Day Prize for Mr. Big Dave Sim, creator of Cerebus, awarded Matt and Carol Dembicki the coveted Day Prize this past weekend. Presented at SPACE in Columbus, Ohio, the Day Prize celebrates achievements in small press. "As in past years, this year's nominees for the Day Prize featured some of the best in small press/self-published comic books. We are honored and humbled just to be included on the list," said Matt Dembicki, the artist on Mr. Big. "Winning the award exceeded our expectations," added Mr. Big writer Carol Dembicki. Matt is currently compiling the Native American anthology Trickster. This entails working with more than 20 Native American storytellers and some of today's rising comic book artists around the nation. It is scheduled to debut at the Baltimore Comic Convention in September 2008. Additionally, Matt is collaborating with Carol on a supernatural thriller. more info

02/25/2008 Little Foot attends SPACE expo Little Foot Publishing's Matt Dembicki will be attending the SPACE small press expo in Columbus, OH March 1 - 2. He will be on hand to discuss his creator owned book Mr. Big and the upcoming anthology Trickster. In addition, Dembicki will be hosting a panel discussion featuring luminaries in the field. Panel details: Saturday, March 1 1:00 PM Antholo-geez! Anthology publishers vent. Hosted by Matt Dembicki (Trickster) with Dara Naraghi (Panel), Allen Freeman (Slam Bang), Rafer Roberts (Plastic Farm), Mark Innes (Comics Eye) and Bob Corby (Oh,Comics!, Untitled). Click HERE to find out more info. more info

02/14/2008 Writing for Comics course I'm co-teaching an eight-week Writing for Comics course this winter at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Md. It's the first time the center is hosting such course, so it's pretty exciting. more info

01/23/2008 Welcome! I would like to welcome you to Little Foot's new website! Special thanks to Evan Keeling for helping make this happen, and to Nick Beranek for getting it set up on the server. Our first item of news is that Mr. Big is on the short list for a 2007 Day Prize! Check the SPACE site for full details. If you are in the Columbus area on March 1 and 2 feel free to stop by the SPACE convention and say hello to Mr. Big co-creator Matt Dembicki. In addition, Cerebus creator Dave Sim, who hands out the Day Prizes, had some nice things to say about Mr. Big on his BLOG : "I bet you thought we were all done with Matt Dembicki as well and, again, you would be just plain wrong. If you're big into ecology, then have I got a self-contained graphic novel for you. Matt and his wife Carol created an entire graphic novel out of a pond located near their home. As Jay Hosler writes in the introduction: This is an unlikely place to experience the wonders of nature. A supermarket is only about 100 yards away. The Doppler Shifts of car wheels hum on the road up the hill and the ground is littered with miscellaneous rusting bits of metal. Carol and Matt just ignore all that and tell a great story – it took them five years to finish, serializing it in six issues, the seventh only appears here in the collection -- filled with drama and adventure and excitement. Completely self-contained. Believe me, I'm very far from an ecology nut and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Check it out now at www.littlefootcomics.com. And don't miss the MR. BIG CONCEPTS AND SKETCHES mini-comic they also did. The ladybugs on the front cover alone are worth the price of admission." We here at Little Foot expect 2008 to be a great year! more info