"Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live."David Binder.MS Dockville is one of those festivals that makes a city a better place to read more

Photos from my time in Ljubljana enjoying the Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival , a four day festival that takes over the streets of the capital of Slovenia. Read more

Photos (and quotes about laughter) from my time at Altitude Comedy Festival in Mayrhofen, Austria. Read more

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning to do afterward.”  - Kurt Vonnegut.When you spend all day on your feet, on the snow, slip-sliding your way from a great height to a lower level, bending knees read more

I recently attended NEXTCOMIC festival in Linz. It's one of only a few German language festivals dedicated to celebrating - and creating! - comic art.I know very little about art and even less about comic art. But I know what I like, and I'm starting to learn what makes read more

Hello friends! I'm back from Austria where I attended the very special festival Altitude Comedy. Can you believe there's a festival that combines snow-by-day and comedy-by-night? Genius! It took place in Mayrhofen, which is where NewMan and I met exactly four years ago and we had a lot of fun.My read more

Howdy partners! We made it to another Monday!I've had a busy but fun week having my socks blown off by the small but mighty island of Madeira before arriving here in Linz, Austria for NEXTCOMIC, a festival for comic art and illustrations. It's the first in a series of read more