I’ve been drawing again. Wow, I’m so rusty. I still don't really have a good place to set up my scanner, so it took my a while to get around to scanning this stuff.

First up, a sketch I took at the Chile Pepper Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden a couple weeks back. I sat in the pavilion at the Japanese pond and sketched the spirit gateway ( Read more... )

This was a very purchase-light MoCCA for me. I’ve spent the past few weeks sorting through books, packing some, throwing away others, and I can’t look at books now without thinking about the fact that I don’t have space enough for the one’s I’ve already got. And worse for floppies and minis, which I can’t just stick on a shelf.

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My New York age is 20


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cthulhia was in town, so we met for brunch and robot lobsters.


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Last night I went to four different comic shops to get the two new Paul Grist books that shipped this week: Jack Staff vol 3 and Kane vol 6. Cosmic on 23rd had sold out of Jack Staff and never got Kane, but they did have All-Star Superman #6. I went down to St Marks Comics, which had Kane, but they’d also sold out of Jack Staff. Then I remembered ( Read more... )

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I was in a Chipotle today - pause here to allow for mockery from immlass - OK, done? So, I was in this Chipotle, and they’re playing music on the sound system, and I hear that familiar “doo da-doo da-doo doo-da-doo” and I realize that they’re playing “Walk on the Wild Side”. Actually, a Spanish-language cover of “Walk on the Wild Side”. But here’s the ( Read more... )

So the plan for today was to get up early, work out, do laundry, fix up my résumé, do some shopping in Manhattan, loaf around at the NYU Starbucks sketching till around 6:30, catch the Scott McCloud lecture from 7 to 9, then head uptown to the SFFWA reception ( Read more... )