• Metro Times (Detroit): “Drawing Ire” by Sean Bieri
• The Villager: “Cartoonist Mikhaela Reid gets graphic”> by Rebecca Cathcart
• Chelsea Now: Cartoonist makes mark with biting political satire”by Rebecca Cathcart
• Between the Lines: “Bi, bi Bush: Cartoonist Mikhaela Reid finds ‘boiling point’ in political climate” by Cornelius Fortune

Here’s a quote from the Metro Times (Detroit) piece. I’m blushing!

If easy jokes or pop catchphrases show up in Reid’s strip “The Boiling Point” — which is featured weekly on MT’s letters page — it’s only because she means to subvert them on her way to striking at the heart of an issue. Doublespeak and spin are among her favorite targets, and she often counters them by mashing them up against images of the ugly truths they seek to obscure. Her cartoons are never glib — they’re wordy, meaty; there’s a lot going on in them. Even her inky, thick-lined drawings suggest the gravity of her subjects. She’s topical but not slavishly so, prefering to address the latest wrinkles in the issues she’s passionate about rather than jump on whatever media bandwagon happens to be rolling by. And she’s not afraid to make issues personal, even appearing in her own strips from time to time to address the reader directly. In a field of sound-alikes, she’s a fiercely singular voice

Masheka Wood grew up in Boston where he was warped by Mad Magazine, Night Flights, Garbage Pail Kids and Tex Avery cartoons. His lettering, cartoon and illustration work has appeared on MTV and in The New Standard. Wood’s cartoons were featured in a recent exhibit in Jackson State University, “Other Heroes: African American comics creators, characters, and archetypes.” Keith Knight says that “Masheka Wood has powers way beyond mortal cartoonists. Get on his bandwagon now before there’s no room left!” Wood is a Glyph Black Comics Awards nominee for Rising Star.

Click on any of these events for more details & to add to your own calendar.

Update: Apparently this thing doesn’t look right in Safari! So here are the dates the old-fashioned way:
• Fri May 18, 7pm | Philly: Glyph Black Comics Awards featuring Keith Knight & Masheka Wood @ African American Museum of Philadelphia 7th and Arch Streets.
• Sat May 19, 10am - 7 pm | Philly: East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention w/ Masheka Wood & Keith Knight (and Mikhaela Reid). Signing and selling books all day! Temple University, Anderson Hall 11th and Berks St.
• Sat Jun 9, 4pm | Detroit: Mikhaela Reid & Masheka Wood Cartoon Slideshow & Signing @ Green Brain Comics, 13210 Michigan Ave., Dearborn, MI
• Tue Jun 12, 7pm | NYC: Mikhaela Reid & Masheka Wood Cartoon Slideshow & Book Launch Bash @ Bluestocking
• Fri Jun 22, 7 pm | NYC: Planned Parenthood book event w/ Jessica Valenti, Mikhaela Reid & Amber Madison

Download the press release here. (requires Acrobat Reader).