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Ugh. My MOST social week of the YEAR is OVER!! I can now climb back into my basement and hide from the world for another few months. Three cheers for hermitage. Thank god. I still don't think I've recovered from D*C, then Baltimore Comic Con was yesterday and Saturday, though that was more professionals and portfolio reviews and shop talk versus the drunken debauchery of D*C. I showed my portfolio to like, 8 people this weekend. Showed a DC comics editor my stuff, who said I didn't have what they were looking for, which is fine by me, since I think DC is a little too conservative for my tastes anyway. But it did piss me off at the time cuz I waited like an hour to be told to basically buzz off. Showed my stuff to Amanda Conner (who if you don't know, is like one of the ONLY professional female comic artists whose done work for any big comic companies), who took my business card and said I reminded her of herself at my age, and that when she got in in the 90's they were taking in anyone who could hold a pencil, but now the industry is pretty dry and no one wants to take any chances with off-the-wall type artists (such as yours truly) so I might be better trying to get in with a smaller company like Dark Horse. And if I want to self-publish, I should do a graphic novel versus issue-by-issue. Also talked to Jimmy Palmiotti, who said more narrative and gave me a bunch of pointers I can't remeber now, but I'm sure will float to my brain's surface eventually since I always forget half of what people say at cons just cuz there's so many people saying so many different things. I just know for a fact that we're getting a table at San Diego Con next year and we're gonna sell mini-sketchbooks n' stuff. It's too hard to be huffin' it table to table versus having your own table and having folks come to you to look at YOUR stuff. Plus we can get cool banners and buttons and stickers and stuff. Cuz that place is a mob scene and a great place to get exposure. Which means San Diego just got a helluva lot more expensive, like my only non-local con that I'm going to next year expensive. But THE questions I was asked the most is "This stuff is great, what are you doing with it?" and "What kind of comics do you want to do?" and "What's your dream job in comics?" Hmm. I'm sensing a pattern. I need to figure out what I'm doing I guess. I'm getting obscenely close to being able to actually possibly start Pearly Whites, but I'd really like to work on something else with actual narrative in the meantime. That's NOT Night Life. I need something that will fit my style better. Any of you writers out there got something I might like? I need more narrative dammit. Bathe it and bring it to me! Shit, I gotta get to work.