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NYC-centric, I admit. It’s a busy time of year, this holiday season. Extra special good wishes and encouragement to the now-ex-Viacom folks out there. (And to my fellow peeps from the 2001 Viacom mass holiday firings as well!) Now onto this week’s festivities:

FRIDAY, DEC. 5: “Too Art For TV 3” opens TONIGHT! It’s New York’s 3rd Annual Fine Art Exhibit for the Animation Industry! Artists include Patrick Smith, Christy Karacas, Jared Deal, Dave Levy, and many, many more. 6pm-9pm at Erebuni, 158 Roebling Street, Brooklyn. (The show runs December 5th through December 15th.)

SATURDAY, DEC 6: UGLY CON will be celebrated at the Giant Robot NY store at 437 E. 9th Street (between 1st Ave and Ave A) starting at 12 noon. Meet the creators! There will be a costume contest! More info on David Horvath’s blog.

Make it a social double header and scoot on over to the Kramers Ergot signing from 4-8 at Desert Island, 540 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn. Yes, Brooklyn really is the center of the universe now. (I live there.) Meet Kim Deitch, Ben Katchor, Adrian Tomine, Ron Rege, and other comix artistes who are not as pretentious as I am when spelling comix with an “x”.

Creative tornado and “professional nonconformist” Laurie Rosenwald has written and illustrated a new book called All The Worst People Have Self Esteem. It is an “inappropriate book for young ladies”. There will be a book party next week but I don’t think I’m allowed to invite everyone. Watch her video preview here.

Catch master distortionist illustrator Philip Burke’s show “Face Nation” at Symbolic Gallery@ Antiquorium, 595 Madison Avenue before it closes on December 13.

—Anne D. Bernstein