Oly was the exact opposite of Emerald City. Instead of a big, frenetic room soaked in howling 60Hz florescents, we got a nice, intimate nightclub with big windows and mostly natural light. It was very chill and I had more opportunities to visit with readers and fans than I usually do ( Read more... )

First, I'm horrendously indebted to Ron Chan, Paul Tobin, and Colleen Coover for squeezing me into Fort Periscope and then listening to my pull my own string over and over and over and over again. Thanks guys! I registered today for ECCC 2009 so I won't have to do the embarrassing couchsurfing thing next year ( Read more... )

So I've finally relaunched comfort-guide.com. It was in such pitiful shape before, with a cheeseball "coming soon" image over the matrimony guide. The matrimony guide was like five guides ago.

I normally hate making websites, but this one took just a few days.

Now, to get the Greeter web presence in shape...

264 CGs sold. Zombies was most popular, with 77. Office, surprisingly, was the runner-up with 61, beating out Pirates at 59. My unscientific observation is that people responded more to the office bit in the pitch than the zombie or pirate bit -- people might (finally) be tiring of pirates and zombies. I got the sense that some folks tuned me ( Read more... )

The zombie and pirate comfort guides went off to the printer last night at 3:05AM. All my prepress work is done.

Everything now rests in the hands of the printers. If everyone delivers on their promises then I will be flush with new product at the spring cons.

( 1: get sued by Apple. 2: linked on Boing Boing. 3: profit! )

Here is a new combination of a couple of long-running themes here on ja.lj:

You know who is awesome? V is awesome. During her downtime from school, she learned GIMP and ( colored some comfort gags for me. )

( Submitted with apologies to mechanteanemone... )

Today cool artist spanambula was my inbox Santa. I got to see all the cg-zombie inks and they are the sweetness.

( I am dying to see how this one looks when that carrot is flaming orange. )

Thanks, people, for being my zombie guinea pigs. I liked how that gag sounded when I wrote it down, but I wasn't sure if Kiss and Michael Jackson were still relevant, so I needed some discriminating eyes on it. And yes, Devo would be an awesome zombie dance band.

Also, thanks very kindly to cool artist spanambula for rushing me the gag so I could test- ( Read more... )

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