For reasons that should be obvious, I cancelled a couple of planned promotional appearances in the U.S. for this year, and decided to replace them with a driving tour across eastern Canada. It began with an invitation to appear at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival, with the idea that simply getting there would take me through a lot of other cities with many supportive bookshops and comics stores. With the help of Erika Medina, my excellent publicist at Raincoast Books (who ar