Day 5 - Art Fest proper begins! We were running late, but when we got there we found that they hadn't opened the gates yet. The line snaked around the block, and finally started moving around 11:40. When we got in it was noon. Unfortunately this meant that everything started late; signing schedules had to be adjusted some, and it looked like they ( Read more... )

Day 4 - visited Desert Island, a cool indy comics/art book store in Brooklyn, for a Paul Hornschemeier signing. Rain made people late but it soon filled up. Desert Island has a ton of cool books and some nice decor, and they even publish a comics tabloid called Smoke Signal. Got to talk to Paul a little bit about the end of his band Arks and his ( Read more... )

Please check out the new design of our Leyende website! Makes ordering even easier! Thanks to Everywhereweshoot's Ryan & Garovs!

Day 3 - As mentioned, missed a Guillermo Del Toro signing because the blog I got the info from got the time wrong. It was at midnight, not noon. There was another one in the evening at a different branch but I already planned to go to Adrian Tomine & Seth's talk at The Strand. We got there just in time to get good seats. A guy sat beside me, then ( Read more... )

I joked to myself that I should only bring like 5 shirts because I'll end up getting some in NY anyway. Well, after 2 days I already have 3 new shirts hahahaha (all cheap, I promise).

Anyway, the background of Conan's Tonight Show comes from Marioland:


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En Route - mostly unremarkable. PAL's economy seats were roomier than I expected them to be, and the food was tolerable but that's about it. Their shenanigans with tickets and flight details were absurd and cost me a lot more money (slashing my pocket money by about 30%) so as much as possible from now on I'm avoiding them (no online check-in, poor ( Read more... )

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A video for Nyle (who I'd never heard of before seeing this) doing a cover of Lil' Wayne (who I'm not very familiar with) directed by Chadd Harbold. What's interesting is BOTH the video AND audio were done in one long take. Look at that choreography. Simple, but when done well, it really sings. Look at how much FUN they look like they're having. ( Read more... )

We fly out to Noo Yawk on Sunday. I haven't been to the US since 2000. Please give me your suggestions and tips ( Read more... )

Trailer for a forthcoming Grant Morrison docu set for 2010:

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I've actually heard this bit before from the This American Life podcasts, but I'm glad to finally see this animated version from Chris Ware & John Kuramoto:

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Then there's this one, which is older and mislabeled, but still very excellent. In fact it's more serious than the previous; sad and poignant. The music's excellent, too:

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Finally, this teaser for ( Read more... )