If you’ve ever snooped me out of Facebook and looked at my con pictures, you know I’m attracted to quirkier cosplay choices. Sure, these Darkstalker and God of War costumes were pretty well done (by which, in the latter’s case,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This year’s Animazement was probably the best convention food-wise I’ve ever experienced. Downtown Raleigh’s sprouted a LOT of new eateries since last year. However, we really ran those poor people ragged. I grabbed a sandwich at Jimmy John’s on Saturday,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since I was just sitting around a lot Saturday morning, it seemed like a waste to not get SOME comics drawn. As you can see, though, it’s not as simple as staring at a piece of paper and shouting “DRAW!”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is probably the most text I’ve ever tried to wedge into a Conventional Wisdom page. It’s also, to the best that I can remember without looking through the archives, the first time any of the mascots have appeared in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be fair, I could see well enough to tell if this gentleman was wearing an actual dress or not, but it WAS a Visual Kei panel, so I just kind of assumed. Besides, how often to you get to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This year’s Animazement was the first time I ever helped host a panel, which was pretty darn fun. Hopefully we didn’t shock to many fangirls with the knowledge that there are rock bands in Japan who DON’T wear five layers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, this totally happened. I’m pretty sure that my friends have collectively done ten times more promotional work for my comics than I ever will. Well, let’s see if I can’t make up for that. I have another comic called[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been doing free face painting at Animzement for a long time now. Sometimes I wrangle an “official” table spot out of some other volunteer work I’m doing at the same time (like running a video room) but other times[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, it’s true. I volunteered as an emergency go-to guy at one of the video rooms (and ended up working a whopping one hour all weekend) and this exactly scene occurred during our Friday-morning briefing. I seriously cannot imagine how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The Thursday Night Endurance Test” is well named. I couldn’t make it all the way through, though in my case it was due more to my lack of sleep than the sheer awfulness of the videos we were watching. Not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…