Hidy ho neighborinos!
I’ve just got back not to long ago from the legendary San Diego Comic Con. or how its commonly abriviated as SDCC…. even though technically its Comic Con international….so the abriviation should be CCI? but i like SDCC better haha.
This year was GREAT, but super busy. I didn’t get as many portfolio reviews as i have in the past. But the ones i did get were very insightful and useful. When you go 6 months with everyone around you telling you how great you are, it is hard to grow. I needed these editors at cons to kick my ass back to reality so i can keep on growing and improving. So i want to just quickly shout out a big thank you to the people who took the time to look at my portfolio at the convention. Even if it was just for a minute. so here we go:
So thanks to Phil Smith at Top Cow, Scott Chitwood at Red 5 comics, David Hedgecock at Ape Entertainment (who gave me the biggest kick in the pants, i appreciate it!), and the editors at Oni press who I think I annoyed with my portfolio samples, but they still were kind enough to give me a review anyways, and I truly appreciate it. I know all of you who looked at my portfolio had very very busy schedules, so I truly thank you for taking the time to look at my portfolio. I also dropped my portfolio off at a ton of other publishers, but for all i know they toss it in the trash the second i walk away from the booth. So i have no way of knowing they looked at my work.
Another reason I go to SDCC is because its the one time a year I get to see alot of old friends who are scattered across the country and I always end up making new friends, (or at the very least meeting new people that could easily BECOME friends haha.) So I’m going to shout then out right here too. They’re all very cool people and talented artists/creators so when you all click on the links to thier sites and check them out. You won’t regret it!
First is My con partner, Dina Greenberg. We’ve gone to every SDCC together and countless other cons. Shes like magic, somehow getting us into the best parties! She’s not going next year because shes doing something stupid, like getting married. WHERE ARE HER PRIORITIES! So i’m looking for a new partner next year, any takers?
Next you gotta check out my buddy Ken Knudtsen and the other guys at Epic Proportions. Ken does 2 fantastic comic books. “My Monkey’s Name is Jennifer” and “I hate Zombies”
I got to see my best friend in San Diego Di Chowmut! You’ll see some pics of her later, she’s an awesome nerd to hang with, and an fantastic designer too!
I visited Anthony and Elaine Garcia, who I’ve referred to in the past as my Comic book parents. But in retrospect thats probably an insulting term, cause these two are cooler than my parents ever would be! This year at their booth they were cosplaying in some amazing Steam Punk outfits. My parents would NEVER do that. And now as I’m typing this I wish I took a picture to show the world, but i didn’t so you’ll have to settle with going to thier websites, twentytosix.com and shrunkenstudio.com
And on my last day at the Con i met this amazing writer artist team of Joseph Wong and Genevieve Tsai, who do a self published comic book “Islands in the Sky” They were very cool, I just wish i didn’t meet then as i was leaving the con, cause i would of liked to hang out with them more. I even bought a pretty sweet mousepad from them. You’ll see how awesome in a little bit when I show you the pics.
OKAY OKAY, thats enough plugging all the people i met, lets get to the fun stuff, the PICTURES!!

We'll start with the view from my Hotel window, since this is the first thing i saw when i got to San Diego (other than the airport of course)

Looking down at my window. You can already see people lining up to get into the con. (Sorry for the weird pattern The window screen was wierd)

The motorcycle from the New Tron Movie. They had such a big booth there...

I am a sucker for Gundams, they're so freaking cool looking....

Another Kick ass Gundam...

Speaking of giant robots, check out the Mech from the movie "Avatar" That thing was so bad ass in person. I wish i could of took it for a spin...

More giant convention robots. This one was to promote the new video game Red Faction 2. But what made this robot particularly awesome was.....

... my friend Di popping out of its chest! Shes like the the creature from the Movie Alien. Poor robot didn't have a chance...

Speaking of Di here she is! Shes dressed as Gogo from Kill Bill. (probably my favorite movie haha)

Here is Di and me at Dicks last resort. Thats our favorite place to grab lunch in San Diego... well at least while the con is going on...

And these are our beers and Dicks Last Resort... (it was barely noon.)

From left to right. Dina, Di, and Me! These two are the coolest people and make my trip to San Diego AMAZING every single year!

okay, lets head back to the con.....

I'm a big fan of the Full Metal Alchemist. So naturally i had to nerd out and take a picture of this life size Alphonse Statue

Check out Optimus Prime standing guard infront of my hotel!

David Petersen signing and doing a little sketch in the copies of Mouse Guard i picked up from him. I love that comic!!

Look at this amazing mouse pad i picked up! Try to deny its awesome... YOU CAN'T CAN YOU!

The angle of that last picture might be hard to see why it is so awesome. I think this clears it up....

Slave Leias sitting on Odin's throne.... Is there anything more awesome? (to be fair i didn't take this photo, Marvel's C.B. Cebulski did. I did not have my camera available at the time of this awesomeness...)

Danny Devito and the rest of the cast of "Its always sunny in Philadelphia"

Mini Sticks of deodorant that were handed out. I think the people at the con were trying to tell me something....Kingdom of Loathing had thier own booth. My brother LOVED this game. I could never get into it. Its probably cause i'm a visual artist, but graphics are important to me. And the only RPG that has worse graphics than this game, are the text based ones...
Okay thats it for photos, and this blog post is long enough as it is. So I’m gonna call it quits. And check in like tuesday for the next spell binding post on BLOGS OF OBLIVION!!!!*echo echo echo*
….hahaha oh man i crack myself up….