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…
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…