Local artist Tom Chalkley will be signing copies of his Ultimate Cartoon Map of Baltimore this Friday at the Women’s Industrial Exchange from noon to 1:30 p.m. and this Sunday at the Red Canoe Bookstore/Café from 1-3 p.m. Tom’s work is one of a kind and his drawings have been featured in The New Yorker, Chicago Reader, Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore City Paper and numerous other publications. The original poster of the Cartoon Map was done as a single piece and hand-drawn with ink and colored pencil.

If you can’t make it to either poster signing this weekend, check out the following local shops that now carry the poster:

Hometown Girl (36th St. & Roland Ave., Hampden)
Fells Point Framing and Design (Thames St. "across from the tugboats")
Red Canoe (4337 Harford Road, Lauraville)
Ivy Bookshop (Lake Falls Shopping Center, Falls Rd. @ Lake Ave., Mt. Washington)
Women's Industrial Exchange (333 N. Charles)
Barnes & Noble/Johns Hopkins Bookstore (33rd & Charles St.)
The Baltimore Museum of Art gift shop.

If you can’t make it to any of these shops or would simply prefer to purchase this or any artwork directly from Tom, visit his web site.

(Image courtesy of Tom Chalkley)