| SDCC report: Preview night |
[Jul. 24th, 2008|10:09 am] |
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This year instead of no Comic Con update at all I'll try do a series of small updates.
Opening day was a blast. Setting up was surprisingly easy compared to previous years. Maybe because we've got it down to a science. Or maybe we just expected it to be awful, but it wasn't really. We had almost everything shipped directly to the floor, and the rest of the stuff was brought in via Chris Yates' car to the convention loading dock, which was an adventure in itself.
At any rate we started setting up after breakfast and I hardly left the booth for 10 seconds from morning 'til 10 at night. I basically haven't said hi to anyone yet - except those who stopped by the booth - but I'm sure that'll change.
Look whose book actually came in time! I got this sucker in the mail at the hotel the night before.
As usual when the floor opened up, we started selling and didn't stop. Preview night has become pretty much a regular night at SDCC, or a very busy day at any other show. As usual Dumbrella is a T-shirt selling powerhouse. But I mostly stood by the books, doing signings and talking to readers. I sold a ton of books for Preview Night! This bodes well for the rest of the show. Which is good because I brought way more books than I thought I'd need.
At the end of the day I realized I was absolutely fucking exhausted. We went out for dinner and drinks, and then Rich and I retired on the early side to maybe - maybe - catch up on sleep.
( More photos behind the cut )
Today, we are doing a panel at 2:30 in room 3. So please come by if you're reading LJ before the show. |
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| WALL-EEE!!! |
[Jun. 29th, 2008|12:17 pm] |
I posted some photos from our San Francisco trip if y'all wanna see!
Today I am finishing my book god damn it.
Fake edit: And holy butts see WALL-E it is fucking wonderful. |
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| mokkkkka |
[Jun. 11th, 2008|04:51 pm] |
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| | silver jews - the moon is the number 18 | ] |
Okay, I said I would write a MoCCA report so here it is.
( MoCCA report )
Other than that a few of us went to Curt's lake house yesterday and barbecued skewered delights. I dipped my feet in the water as I scratched out furious book revisions. My deck workspace looked like this:
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| two mugs, just chillin' |
[Jun. 4th, 2008|08:05 pm] |
Hey San Francisco smarties, please contribute your favorite spots to this Google map so Rich and I can go there! Just remember you will be permanently judged based on your recommendations, so no funny business. >:)
Also, the new Octopus Pie Store is up -- and I got these today!
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| MoCCAs and travels |
[Jun. 2nd, 2008|09:41 pm] |
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This weekend is the MoCCA Art Festival, my favorite show! Cheech and I are training it down to New York and staying at a dang hotel. I'm so excited to have a book to sell there. And to meet some New York fans and creators, hell yes!
Here's a doodle for an upcoming storyline. Eve drives a car and she is very west coast grumpy. I miss the angular bangs, so they're back.
I'm currently laying out OP Vol. 2, hopefully in time for San Diego. Which means I gotta send it to the printers soon! Can she do it?
I'm also redesigning the store and putting this shirt up on Wednesday:
Other than that I'm making plans for San Francisco at the end of the month. I have no desire to escape my 24/7 comics lifestyle but I do want to do other things, maybe slightly more romantic or mentally stimulating things sometimes. It's a funny feeling not wanting to stop working, though.
Back to work!! |
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| woah |
[May. 14th, 2008|02:32 pm] |
Whoa, I just realized Octopus Pie is one year old today! A year of this! Wow~!
HOPPING TIME |
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| OP redux |
[May. 3rd, 2008|03:46 pm] |
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For a while I've wanted to remaster a number of pages in the duck storyline. I finally got around to fixing them! I hope the improvement is noticeable. |
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| gah, here we go |
[May. 2nd, 2008|01:49 pm] |
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| | Sublime, E.L.O., Guster, Outkast, etc. etc. | ] |
The sad part is a lot of people reading this LJ probably remember this look to a tee. |
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| hooray yippee I am home |
[Apr. 30th, 2008|02:25 pm] |
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Stumptown was a total freakin' blast! As usual I know I'll be terrible about writing a report so I'm just posting my Flickr Photoset of the trip. Great to see you all! |
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[Apr. 1st, 2008|01:39 pm] |
On this beloved day of fools, let's have a look at a few the darker elements of April 1st, documented by Wikipedia:
The frequency of April Fool hoaxes sometimes makes people doubt real news stories released on 1 April.
The 1 April 1946 Aleutian Island earthquake tsunami that killed 165 people on Hawaii and Alaska resulted in the creation of a tsunami warning system (specifically the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre), established in 1949 for Pacific Ocean area countries. The tsunami in question is known in Hawaii as the "April Fools' Day Tsunami" due to people drowning because of the assumptions that the warnings were an April Fools' prank.
The merger of Square and its rival company, Enix, took place on April 1, 2003, and was originally thought to be a joke.
The announcement of the anime version of the Powerpuff Girls, Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z, was on April Fools Day causing many to think it was a joke.
The game Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games was announced only a couple days before April Fools Day so many thought that Mario and Sonic together for the very first time was a joke.
Dangerous holiday, folks. |
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| travelogue |
[Mar. 24th, 2008|01:02 pm] |
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I've been neglecting my LJ lately in favor of my Twitter and Tumblr accounts. I guess it's just seemed more efficient to post numerous, tiny blurbs instead of long old journal entries these days.
At any rate I'm in London - or rather at Lem's house in Reading - after the UK Comix Thing, which was amazing! I have a few interesting stories but I'm about to get on my way to the airport for a long, loooong post-holiday flight back home.
In a nutshell, things went great. I sold out all my books and generated quite a buzz before the show was over. Will definitely be returning. This hypes me up for convention season like nothing else. Thanks to everyone who showed up and was extremely nice! |
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| woaah |
[Mar. 13th, 2008|04:41 pm] |
So dang, my new timelapse drawing video has been pretty popular today! I am posting it here to share it with y'all and document how cool the internet is.
Time to go offline for a while, now. |
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[Feb. 20th, 2008|11:16 am] |
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..and today, 1000 books arrived at my door. The FedEx guy gave me SUCH a look. |
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| BOOK |
[Feb. 19th, 2008|03:35 pm] |
Check it out mofos, after a long and bitter printing struggle I finally got some preview copies of my book!
Rich and the lovely Ms. Shelley Winters helped me photograph it. The rest of the books will be coming this week. Yippee!
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| just casting some lines |
[Feb. 14th, 2008|09:24 pm] |
Say I was thinking of moving back to New York in a couple of months. Like, Manhattan specifically. And this is purely hypothetical, not lol-I've-already-decided-to-do-it hypothetical. (I haven't)
Who knows someone who needs a roomie? |
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[Jan. 23rd, 2008|05:51 pm] |
My iguana died today. He was 14 years old.
Polo glares in an old picture from the 90s.
I adopted (and named) Polo when I was a rebellious 9-year-old. He was $25 and fit in the palm of my hand. By adulthood he had grown to over 4 feet long.
He was a nervous, shy iguana, but otherwise quite gentle. He died quietly in the care of my mom, who, after initial repulsion, had taken a liking to him over the years. Rest in peace you big old skin bag! |
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| okay well |
[Jan. 22nd, 2008|08:32 pm] |
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At long last I decided it's worth 15 bucks to remove the last remnants of my junior high e-dentity from this LJ. So don't be alarmed, I am ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) granulac now.
What's new? Well I finally approved my book proofs; it's all out the door. I should have about a dozen boxes of books in a week or so. I'm nervous but at least the final decisions have been made.
Other than that I booked my flight to the UK Comix Thing in March, it's ridiculously cold up here, and I have a sincere fondness for the cheap, vulgar show I work on. Can't wait for spring! |
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| look how critical my LJ posts have gotten. |
[Jan. 10th, 2008|10:52 pm] |
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Right! LJ!
I've mainly been planning my year, here. Getting my book shit finalized, marking trips on my calendar, improving my schedule a bit. I've been listening to ambient music - which I don't even really like - because it helps me focus. I'm doing better than usual with focusing.
We watched all of Flight of the Conchords last weekend, which was disappointing. A few funny moments here and there - the last 2 episodes were pretty solid - but I found it to be a low-content, unsatisfying show. Maybe they'll hit their stride by season 2?
I did something pretty drastic with my hair recently. More on that later. |
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[Dec. 26th, 2007|02:02 pm] |
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| | about to have coffee | ] |
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| | wu tang clan - da mystery of chessboxin' | ] |
Christmas was good times! Rich's family is great as always. It was nice to sit by the fire and be low-key for a couple of days. I left with a lot of great food and a sparkling new French press, which I already love. This is how I would make coffee in my imaginary little world if it existed -- and it does. Can't wait to try my pomegranate tea with it.
Back to work for me! As usual I'm doing too much and sleeping too little. But my brain is whirring! Time to mop up the remnants of December. |
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