APE!
APE APE APE, woooooooo, webcomics nerd-out!
Totally saw Kate Beaton (awesome), bought her book for a second time (which even she thought was crazy)! I probably should have gotten one of her Fat Pony buttons too, maybe next time! Also took a picture of some really very good clay model of the Mystery-Solving Teens that a fan made for her.
The girl whose table she shared was selling some kinda French-Revolution vampire book that looked potentially pretty good, but since it was all sold out I bought a place on the waiting list for the next printing instead. The name above mine? Nich Maragos, for serious.
Got Aaron Diaz's Dresden Codak 2009 Sketchbook, which reminds me that I should actually get around to reading more than one or two of those. (One disadvantage of taking Scott McCloud up on his infinite canvas is that it becomes difficult to transition to print after the fact, so you can't buy a book of the comic itself.) Also he was sharing his table with the author of Rice Boy, about which I'd heard effusive praise, but which I'd never actually read, so there went another thirty bucks. The first ten pages at least are pretty great so far, though! It's like one of those weirdo fantasy shorts you get in a Flight anthology, but actually fleshed out to novel length.
Finally saw the bepetaled Stephen Notley and loaded up on three of his Bob the Angry Flower collections, which seemed to make him a happy flower. There was tons of stuff I'd never heard of, too -- grabbed random cheap things like a double-story book from some outfit called 2D Comics, a postcard of a cute bird and bunny, and another one from this duo that do, among other things, art installations influenced by Zelda/Final Fantasy tilemaps (I kinda want a print of their Map of Neighboring Territories project now).
Oh yeah, and while we were outside the center another Kate Beaton fan spotted my Excited Victorians T-shirt and we wound up comparing our book pictures (she got Emperor Norton which was a smart idea) and chatting about the expo. We had both come pretty much to see Kate! Nerds, hooray.
Sometimes it is nice to live near an interesting city!
Totally saw Kate Beaton (awesome), bought her book for a second time (which even she thought was crazy)! I probably should have gotten one of her Fat Pony buttons too, maybe next time! Also took a picture of some really very good clay model of the Mystery-Solving Teens that a fan made for her.
The girl whose table she shared was selling some kinda French-Revolution vampire book that looked potentially pretty good, but since it was all sold out I bought a place on the waiting list for the next printing instead. The name above mine? Nich Maragos, for serious.
Got Aaron Diaz's Dresden Codak 2009 Sketchbook, which reminds me that I should actually get around to reading more than one or two of those. (One disadvantage of taking Scott McCloud up on his infinite canvas is that it becomes difficult to transition to print after the fact, so you can't buy a book of the comic itself.) Also he was sharing his table with the author of Rice Boy, about which I'd heard effusive praise, but which I'd never actually read, so there went another thirty bucks. The first ten pages at least are pretty great so far, though! It's like one of those weirdo fantasy shorts you get in a Flight anthology, but actually fleshed out to novel length.
Finally saw the bepetaled Stephen Notley and loaded up on three of his Bob the Angry Flower collections, which seemed to make him a happy flower. There was tons of stuff I'd never heard of, too -- grabbed random cheap things like a double-story book from some outfit called 2D Comics, a postcard of a cute bird and bunny, and another one from this duo that do, among other things, art installations influenced by Zelda/Final Fantasy tilemaps (I kinda want a print of their Map of Neighboring Territories project now).
Oh yeah, and while we were outside the center another Kate Beaton fan spotted my Excited Victorians T-shirt and we wound up comparing our book pictures (she got Emperor Norton which was a smart idea) and chatting about the expo. We had both come pretty much to see Kate! Nerds, hooray.
Sometimes it is nice to live near an interesting city!