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SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2008
We attended for two days, Friday & Saturday. It was really fun, met lots of great fans and hung out with writers and artists and other cool people. Anthony is my Pony Hero because he got me the special exclusive Comic-Con 2008 My Little Pony! Normally you'd have to wait in some long-ass line at the Hasbro booth, but he got it on the sly from some private seller. I also saw a vintage My Little Pony LLAMA which is now the Holy Grail to me, but it was in a locked glass case because it's so fuckin' amazing. It was $75, so, you know, fuck that.
Had dinner with the Disney people Saturday night, including the editor who's been working on "Wonderland" with us. First time I'd met him in person, and he was totally nice. Everybody was. I was really nervous about going to that dinner and meeting all those new people, and afraid I'd burp or fart or something, but the restaurant was so loud they wouldn't have heard me, anyway. We were seated at this very long skinny table, so at first the only people I knew were way at the OTHER end of it! But the other artists and their significant others were nice and friendly, and didn't spit on us or shove forks into our eyes.
I saw a bunch of the students I know from the school library, some of them in costumes. I loved it. They were some of the first people I saw when I arrived at my place at the SLG booth. :)
I had a weird dream Friday night that I had to draw on some guy's arm, and ten the next day I had to do exactly that. He was going down the line asking the SLG artists to draw on or sign his arm. I drew a quick Skelebunny, and tried not to come in too much contact with his skin, because I don't know where he's been. It's not like he was even buying any of our books. We saw that some other artist had drawn this beautiful, detailed girl's face on the inside of his other arm.
He said, "Yeah, some Asian girl at a booth over there did that! That was so nice of her to do such a great drawing!" I asked, "Did you buy her stuff?" and he replied, "Uh, no..."
I said, "Nice. Well, maybe you should go back."
So anyway, I had these postcards and a sign advertising that the Skelebunnies "Complete Collection" graphic novel, an ass-bursting 120-pages, is coming out in January, followed by a re-release of "Stitch" in February. Both will have bonus materials that will make them worth it, and in fact life-altering.
Disney Press's hardcover slipcased "Wonderland" graphic novel is due out in January, too. I'm very excited about that, and we're all totally proud of the book. I got a lot of really great feedback from fans. Quite a few guys have told me it's the only comic book their girlfriend reads, which is cool. But then I'm always happy to see there are plenty of guys who are actually reading it, too!
Mr. Scoots is very happy to have us home, he missed Anthony so much he didn't eat much until we returned. As soon as we drove in and parked this afternoon, we could see his little brown nose poking under the back gate, and he was totally whining with excitement/relief.
We attended for two days, Friday & Saturday. It was really fun, met lots of great fans and hung out with writers and artists and other cool people. Anthony is my Pony Hero because he got me the special exclusive Comic-Con 2008 My Little Pony! Normally you'd have to wait in some long-ass line at the Hasbro booth, but he got it on the sly from some private seller. I also saw a vintage My Little Pony LLAMA which is now the Holy Grail to me, but it was in a locked glass case because it's so fuckin' amazing. It was $75, so, you know, fuck that.
Had dinner with the Disney people Saturday night, including the editor who's been working on "Wonderland" with us. First time I'd met him in person, and he was totally nice. Everybody was. I was really nervous about going to that dinner and meeting all those new people, and afraid I'd burp or fart or something, but the restaurant was so loud they wouldn't have heard me, anyway. We were seated at this very long skinny table, so at first the only people I knew were way at the OTHER end of it! But the other artists and their significant others were nice and friendly, and didn't spit on us or shove forks into our eyes.
I saw a bunch of the students I know from the school library, some of them in costumes. I loved it. They were some of the first people I saw when I arrived at my place at the SLG booth. :)
I had a weird dream Friday night that I had to draw on some guy's arm, and ten the next day I had to do exactly that. He was going down the line asking the SLG artists to draw on or sign his arm. I drew a quick Skelebunny, and tried not to come in too much contact with his skin, because I don't know where he's been. It's not like he was even buying any of our books. We saw that some other artist had drawn this beautiful, detailed girl's face on the inside of his other arm.
He said, "Yeah, some Asian girl at a booth over there did that! That was so nice of her to do such a great drawing!" I asked, "Did you buy her stuff?" and he replied, "Uh, no..."
I said, "Nice. Well, maybe you should go back."
So anyway, I had these postcards and a sign advertising that the Skelebunnies "Complete Collection" graphic novel, an ass-bursting 120-pages, is coming out in January, followed by a re-release of "Stitch" in February. Both will have bonus materials that will make them worth it, and in fact life-altering.
Disney Press's hardcover slipcased "Wonderland" graphic novel is due out in January, too. I'm very excited about that, and we're all totally proud of the book. I got a lot of really great feedback from fans. Quite a few guys have told me it's the only comic book their girlfriend reads, which is cool. But then I'm always happy to see there are plenty of guys who are actually reading it, too!
Mr. Scoots is very happy to have us home, he missed Anthony so much he didn't eat much until we returned. As soon as we drove in and parked this afternoon, we could see his little brown nose poking under the back gate, and he was totally whining with excitement/relief.
