And we’re back!

(Didn’t know we were away? That’s cool. It was pretty quick.)

We just spent about a week and a half in India to go see our friend’s wedding in Mumbai and then also to check out the Hindu holy city of Varanasi. Like most trips I kept a cartoon log of our time travelling around. Here it is below.

Waiting in Newark for the flight to Mumbai:

Once in Varanasi:

And then once we’re in Mumbai:

(CONGRATULATIONS ADITYA AND RIDDHIMA!!!!)

All for now.

And if you liked these, be sure to check out my last run of travel cartoons from Colombia last July here.

I love doing a cartoon a day when I travel. Usually Casey and I will find a quiet cafe or a bar. She’ll write away in her journal and then look up to see a view like this:

I did sets while in Southeast Asia and Mali during the time that would become To Timbuktu. (You can see bits of those here.) And another set in Morocco in in 2009. These past 5 weeks in Colombia was no different. I did about 47 in all. (OK, some days I did more than one.) Here are my favorite eleven.

They’re all pretty self-explanatory with the exception of this first one. On our first day in Bogotá we OD-ed on museums going to the Museo Botero (Colombian artist who paints fat people), Museo del Oro (of gold), Museo de la Policía Nacional (come on, you know this one), and then a textile museum housed in the old house of Simón Bolívar’s mistress. Didn’t catch the name of that one.

-Steven

My brother Jake has never been much of a reader. Or a wimpy kid. Which are two of the reason he has never cracked open a copy of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of A Wimpy Kid.

But yesterday when Steven and I we talking about the series Jake said, “Maybe I would have read Diary of Manly Kid.” And thus it was born.

We’re putting up a whole diary on diaryofamanlykid.tumblr.com entry by entry. All you wimps, come back for advice! All you manly kids, read it and give each other high fives.

P.S. If you want guns like Jake you can have ‘em! He’s a personal trainer. Check out his site here.

This weekend Shitty Kitty had a date with Dakar. They hit it off right away at hip new club called Must. Even though there were a couple power outages, the beer stayed cold and the comics stayed dirty. Get the whole shebang on Shitty Kitty’s website.

That’s a Peul joke by the way. Humor got real local real fast.

You + Shitty Kitty + all your friends + Missions Dolores Bar + $10 pitchers of Sixpoint = THE BEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE AT THE SHITTY KITTY MEET UP TONIGHT!

5:30- 8:30pm, Mission Dolores Bar, 4th Ave Brooklyn.

As always, you just bring yourself and your filthy sense of humor, we’ll bring the drawing supplies.

For those of you who haven’t been to a Meet Up for a while or never before, here’s a little reminder of how to draw Shitty Kitty:

And to really show Santa some respect, come by the Shitty Kitty Meet Up tomorrow, this Friday, at Mission Dolores Bar 5:30 to 8pm. Draw, write, drink, laugh, maybe even make someone their very own shitty Hanukkah present. There’s eight nights. You got to get creative.

So it turns out DC insiders GET DOWN.

Thank you everyone who came out and rocked it on a Monday night, and big thanks to U Street Busboys & Poets for hosting the madness, especially our Hall of Fame quality waitress Ty!

Check out the photos of the comics made and the comic makers below, and be sure to Like Shitty Kitty on Facebook also below. (And for all you fans who Liked her as Sh*ttyKitty, we’re taking that page down and moving operations to ShittyKitty so go like her there goddamnit!)

Above, a favorite from the night, made by Shitty Kitty converts at the table next to us.

Awwww, Weinberg Brothers having fun together.

Feel like dicking around on the internet some more? You can cruise photos from previous Meet Ups here.

We’ve been busy! We’re fresh off the plane from Corpus Christi, Texas where we presented To Timbuktu at the Jan Paris Book Fest to a lovely crew of librarians and future librarians. Check out photos from all that madness at the book’s website here.

Steven was also digitally painting on the go on our various flights. He’s put them together on a Flickr set here.

Tomorrow we’ll be in Bethesda, MD giving a presentation full of pictures and videos all about To Timbuktu at the Bethesda Library in Bethesda, Maryland (Tue Nov. 9, 7:30 pm). Bonus feature? You get to meet Steven’s parents! And you can even come over to their house after the presentation for some beer and more laughs.

Well it looks like you’ve got the next two days’ activities figured out.

This week’s cartoon series addresses our neighborhood’s reputation for being overrun with children.