Comic creator Kurt Ankeny hits the road in support of his recently released PLEADING WITH STARS! - a collection of stories about people interacting with each other, and the universe, and often finding that they themselves are smaller and yet more wondrous in comparison. Kurt Ankeny is an award-winning cartoonist whose work has appeared in Best American Comics, at the Society of Illustrators, and in Comics Workbook, PEN America’s Illustrated PEN, and Fantagraphics’s NOW Anthology.