“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…
Okay, so time for a little story. One of the panels I really wanted to attend was the Dominic Deegan Q&A panel. Like everyone else who came by his table, I was told by Mookie that the panel would be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not sure which was more ironic, the fact that I actually chose to go to “What the Heck is Steampunk?” instead of “How to Make a Living off Your Webcomic,” or the fact that I correctly guessed I’d get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There were two J-Rock concerts and two dances (not “raves,” just “dances”) at Animazement, and I think I was at a panel in a room directly underneath for EVERY one of them. It was like being in the middle of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’re ever at an anime convention, especially on the east coast, and you see “Awesomely Bad J-Music” on the schedule, you WILL got to it and you WILL enjoy it. That’s not a suggestion, it’s not even a command,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Like a significant portion of Animazement’s attendees, I came along after the “old days” of anime fandom had drawn to a close (even if I DO come a lot closer than a lot of these kids). Thus, I found this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, it seemed like it at the time anyway. At the How to Make a Webcomic panel on Sunday, EVERY SINGLE PERSON on the panel was boasting some pretty epic facial hair. Pictured in this comic are (left to right):[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, it’s not like this topic doesn’t hit close to home for me… This was another page where I started to do caricatures of some of the real personalities at the panel (not all, there wasn’t anywhere NEAR enough paper[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…otherwise known as Naruto Fan Fiction Actually, the first two panels are totally real and were quite cool. Therefore, in my rough draft, I made a serious effort to do caricatures of the real people who ran them. but since[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was the Bad Anime! Bad! Panel. Our end of the line hadn’t even started to MOVE when they told us it was full. I’m happy to say that the Staffers were actually much nicer than this, though. (Historical Note:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…