Last week was the culmination of many years of work.

I flew in from Iceland with my two year old son Sævar and was picked up at the airport by my brother Matterz Squidling. After twenty years in the making the books were printed and waiting in boxes for a series of book release events in New York City.

The first of these events was at the Coney Island Sandbar with the Squidling Brothers on Saturday July 20th, 2024. It had be and was only fitting that the show was in Coney Island. We had car trouble on the way out that day and had to turn around. Made it back to Philadelphia just in time as the van’s battery was dying. Matterz, Mackenzie and I loaded our gear into the back of our pick up truck, we squeezed into the cab and powered through to Coney Island for an amazing show where many books were sold and signed.

After a few days to recover we dropped little Sævar off with my parents who were on vacation near the Jersey Shore. I went to New York for the week to make shows every day at a night club called The Box where I was Frankenstein’s Monster. The box performance was after 2 in the morning so I could do earlier shows each night.

did a show at Freddy’s Bar and Backroom in Brooklyn with vaudeville on the rocks. The cast was Alaska Lostboy, Obsidian Absurd, and Nati Amos the patch work Girl. It was an emotional night with an intimate audience. The current cast of the Coney Island Sideshow was there as well as many old and new friends.

Friday the Squidlings reunited at the slipper room for an event which will be the blueprint for many future shows. We screened act one of our new documentary, Dark Imagination Party, with film maker Steve W Thomson. Projected some of a new comic book made about us called Carnivolution, by Adriano Moraes.

Also had live Accordion music by Maray Fuago and some sideshow with Matterz Squidling and I.

Matterz took the bus home and left the van with me for a busy next day I had ahead with a book signing, a Coney Island show called the Seaweed Circus and a final night as Frankenstein’s monster at the box, plus an ride back to Philadelphia after that bled into the morning.

The feeling was great satisfaction after lots of sweat and clown makeup in the summer heat. Tired and sore but fulfilled with a mission accomplished and a job well done by all who helped!

The Slipper Room photos by Jim Moore (click to view)