Artist and zinester Esther Pearl Watson created her signature
character—Tammy Pierce, an angsty high-school girl forever stuck
in the 1980s—after finding a teenager’s diary in a gas-station
bathroom. Watson’s new graphic novel, Unlovable, compiles
the beautifully crude Tammy Pierce saga (long-running in Bust magazine) and shoves it into a sparkly blue hardcover book. At her
first-ever art exhibition in Seattle, Watson will be on hand to sign
copies of Unlovable, while Rusty Willoughby serenades her
with song. (Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, 1201 S Vale St,
658-0110. 6–9 pm, free.)

Kelly O—formerly a Stranger staff photographer, music writer, Drunk of the Week columnist, and more!—finished art school and a soul-crushing internship at a corporate advertising agency in Detroit,...