Warning: be on the lookout for Cereal Killers!

Cereal Killers is an upcoming art book by Docktor Vicktor Von Kreep of Kreepsville Industries featuring some of the most prolific cartoon illustrators today that parody General Mills' spooky cereals like Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Boo Berry!

Heres the description from Kreepsville Industries' Cereal Killer blog:

Kreepsville Industries presents Cereal Killers. A spooky, kooky coffin table cartoon art book that has been in the works since 2006. This creepy, crawly treat features over 70 terrorfying takes on some of your favorite breakfast cereal's, and some original ones by some of the top animation artists and illustrators from today!

Some of the artists among the many (click here for an exhaustive list with links, over 70 in all) will include Crhis Savino, Sandra Equhua, Eddie Mort, Bill Wray, Lili Chin, Gabe Swarr, Kup Kake, Steve Lambe, Miah Alcorn, Chris Reccardi, Dan Thompson, Richard Wake, Eric Tan and Rob Lily. Plus the forward will be written by Maxwell Atoms of "Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" fame.

Some examples:


Martin Hsu & Jay Stephen


Lauren Faust & Chris Mitchell


Gabe Swarr & Kup Kake

Animation artists plus cereals plus spookiness equal awesome in my book. Get in the 'spirit' of things at idigcerealkillers.blogspot.com
& check out Von Kreep's Flckr photostream!

Litquake

Bookworms prepare to wave your bookmarkers like a lighter. Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival, returns to the city to celebrate its eighth year starting from October 6-13!

For eight days, the Bay Area's most seasoned and up-coming writers will be scattered about in 58 different venues ranging from plush theaters, fancy bars, dive bars, galleries, laundromats, and bookstores to share their works ranging in style and genres -- everything from fiction, poetry, journalism, and essays.

Rock out to the Dewey Decimal System with the 350 writers scheduled to appear in over 50 different events including Amy Tan, Andrew Sean Greer, Judd Winick (yes, that dude from The Real World!), etc.

Some events are free like the Off the Richter Scale readings, but you can forget about going to anything on Monday the 13th because all events that day are SOLD OUT!

For more information including a schedule and writers to appear check 'em out here.