West Tisbury Renaissance man Paul Karasik is launching his new book You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation in style, presenting The Fletcher Hanks Experience — a safari over the craggy landscape of the psyche of comic legend Fletcher Hanks — tomorrow at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival 2009 in New York at 5 p.m.

The presentation combines archival audio of Hanks’ son with comic book panels which takes the audience into the mind of the man whom even R. Crumb called “a twisted dude.” Mr. Karasik describes it as a “jazzed up audio-slideshow mindbender.”

Before that, Mr. Karasik will be conducting a conversation at 3 p.m. with comics legends Arnold Roth and Al Jaffee — the man who invented and still does the Mad magazine fold-in. “Guess that Larry King has other plans for the day,” laughs a thrilled Mr. Karasik.

You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation is Mr. Karasik’s second volume of collected Hanks tales. The author will be signing books on Saturday, June 6, from 2 to 3 p.m. and Sunday, June 7, from noon to 1 p.m. Each Hanks book purchased at MoCCA comes with a complimentary coloring book, “Color Me or DIE!” with a cover drawn by Charles Burns.

The MoCCA is at the 69th Regiment Armory at Lexington avenue and 25th street in New York.