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…
This is why I packed up the face painting kind of early on Saturday. It probably didn’t need to, ‘cos I don’t think there were too many more lines like that, but it seemed like a good idea at the[…]↓ 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…
Gina Biggs, creator or Red String, did a panel on Creating Webcomics for a Living, something I have an understandable interest in. It was mostly a cool panel, but this one bit did hit kind of close to home. Back[…]↓ 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…
Now, I know absolutely nothing about how computers work, other than how to use them for stuff like this. Thus, I have absolutely no idea what was going on whenever the tech guys tried to get a computer and a[…]↓ 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…