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…
Yeah, I really kicked my own behind for WEEKS before Animazement this year. Absurd as it sounds, I actually got MORE sleep at the con than the week leading up to it. It’s what finally put me back on a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Home again, home again, jiggidy jig! Yes, Conventional Wisdom is returning once again to the first ever anime con I ever attended: Animazement. Will it be awesome? Will it be as horrifying as this cover page? Only time will tell,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, get this: I’m at the dentist’s office Tuesday, and the dental hygienist is telling me about how much her son wanted to go to Katsucon. How could that NOT be the ending? Well, that’s all my Katsucon stuff. Hope[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The only thing more surreal than seeing Otaku in a convention is seeing them OUTSIDE one. Even though I knew perfectly well what event I’d just left, it was still a bit of a head trip to look out the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just a simple snapshot of the walk out Sunday. Seriously, I think I brought twice as many costumes as anyone else in our group. How DID that happen?