Seattle comic artist Eroyn Franklin is enjoying an auspicious debut. She received a prestigious Xeric grant for Another Glorious Day at the Nothing Factory, her autobiographical graphic novel that uses elegant hand cut images to tell a story of the murky transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Tomorrow night, Franklin will sign copies of her book, as well as a handcrafted mini-comic, The Here , at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Georgetown. Franklin's original pages from Another Glorious Day are included in the gallery's summer exhibition, Comics Savants: A Survey of Seattle Alternative Cartoonists, alongside Ellen Forney, Megan Kelso, David Lasky, and other emerging and established Seattle cartoonists.

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.), 6 to 8pm, free.