I drew this three-page, short story a couple of years ago for an online sequential competition. It’s kind of sad, melodramatic and gloomy—so, uh, par for the course, really.
As you can see, it was before I started simplifying my approach to comics, which is how Snow was made. I still think this looks good, and I miss doing colour comics; I’m hoping to do more.
Woo boy! Only one day down and already I’m exhausted. It’s amazing what sitting behind a table for a whole day can do to you. In truth, you aren’t doing much, but you feel so damn beat at the end of the day.
Fan Expo is bigger than ever this year, and so far it’s been fun. At the end of a Friday, it always feels like you’re just getting started—Saturday is the longest day, and Friday is but a taste of what’s to come.
This is my tenth—my tenth, for Pete’s sake—Fan Expo. My ever-present tablemate Uyugomiak and I have seen dozens of Artists’ Alley casualties over the years; people who always mean well, but never seem to have the stamina to keep producing stuff. (Sometimes, they don’t even produce anything at all, which is too bad.) But we are back again, still at it. Whether that means we’re good, or persistent, or just foolhardy, I’m not sure.
We are side-by-side again this year, eating not-great pepperoni pizza and talking about all manner of things. Between bites, I picked up several great books from Artists’ Alley:
The Gentlemen by Kristi McConnell
Trigger Happy by Frances Lee
Action Satisfaction Supreme #3 by the always-delightful Zen Rankin
Cat and Cat 2 by Juhyun Daniel Lee (god, it’s so cute)
And, of course, the new Chubby Bounty Hunter and Uyugomiak Miniatures issues by aforementioned Uyugomiak
Lots of familiar faces came by today, and some new ones as well. As usual, everyone looked a little overwhelmed as they tried to take everything in. On Saturday, people get more decisive—here’s hoping they do so in our direction.
Uyu gave me so many good ideas for new work, I can’t wait to start drawing and writing again. More tomorrow!
