I attempted Hourly Comics Day and kinda flamed out midway through. It seems that my brain is not in shape for that kind of thinking, but it was a good exercise overall. I just it wasn't when I had three books to letter. LOL.

The "comics" are posted here: http://illcutie.blogspot.com/ It starts at Feb 1, 3pm (!).

I envy everybody else who did some ( Read more... )

Tonight the Clackamas Community College is hosting its own 24 hour Comic Day with Scott McCloud giving a "keynote address" (?). It'll be 6pm tonight to 6pm tomorrow. It's like 15 minutes from my house, but it's $20.

Tomorrow is World Wide Sketchcrawl (go to the forum to see where your local sketchers will be meeting). The Portland group will meet in ( Read more... )

 And it begins...

...the Thursday schedule for San Diego Comic Con International is up now. I'm assuming the Friday schedule will be up tomorrow.*

I'm trying to build my schedule now--it seems as good a time as any.

Andy and Joel have a panel on Thursday at 10:30am. (cue laughter here--Andy probably won't be conscious). So I'll be there for that. I'll ( Read more... )

Now that Gantz #1 is out, I can share how rough this book can be most of the time.

Here's how the printed page sorta looks in the Dark Horse edition:


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...before going back today.

It's nice that graphic novels are now more "mainstream" and a regular part of BEA.

But it still strikes me as odd that Diamond set up at the "kiddie table"--the hall where the educational, children's books and gew gaws are. On the plus side, their aisle led the way to the popular autograph section, so I think that's a big ( Read more... )