I've been quiet for a few days, but with one very good reason... I'm exhausted. I was working the Toronto Fan Expo, helping out my local comics shoppe (LCS), The Silver Snail. I started Thursday evening, helping with set-up for four hours, then continuing again Friday morning at 7am until the show opened at 2pm. Then I helped take monies from fanboys (and girls) until 9pm (yes a 14 hour day standing on concrete deep in the bowels of the Metro Toronto Convention center where nary a drop of natural light dare enter), and returned Saturday at 9am to do the same for another 10 hours, and once again on Sunday from 10am - 6pm, followed by 4 hours of takedown. All in all over forty gruelling hours of feet-expanding torture. But when I get my phat store credit, it'll all be worth it.
Also, this past Saturday was my first wedding anniversary, and I did indeed spend the full day with my wife, who also worked the convention (in fact, it's through her that I got in there, and I'm now part of "the gang", which makes me happy). We had dinner afterwards, but no gifts were exchanged... rather, we exchanged some comics for merchandise and Aden got a beefy 12" Nightwing (that, I'm sure, sounds really dirty if you don't know what I'm talking about), while I got a pair of lovely ladies for the bookshelf. All around, our first anniversary was just as geeky as our wedding weekend... good to know we're not in any newlywed slump.
The convention gave me a lot of interesting thoughts to ponder about the nature of fandom and the culture of collecting, and now I have a venue to do it. I've been invited to participate in the group blog Second Printing, which is a blog about pondering fandom, so it's a natural match. In fact, my first post went up today. Talking about my nervousness about meeting with comic book creators or other celebritants, it's a bit of a rambling post, and I'll work on reigning things in a little for the future.
This reminds me that I also have had posted my Hoverboy interview (I interview Hoverboy's masterminds Marcus Moore and Ty Templeton) up on CHUD.com. I got to visit the Hoverboy Travelling Museum at Fan Expo this weekend and it was AWESOME! If you haven't already visit the Virtual Hoverboy Museum, because Hoverboy is bloody hilarious. I'm in utter awe of this project and I predict building success for it.
Some new for Frank, if'n he still pops around this site on occasion. Cliff Chiang, comic book illustrator extraordinare is working on a new graphic novel for Vertigo that spins out from Neil Young's Greendale album (which was also a movie, thanks IMDB). Bizarre, but true.
And finally, I leave you with this cover image to an upcoming SLG Publishing book, because it makes me laugh uncontrollably:
and there's a FREE PDF PREVIEW over on the website
Also, this past Saturday was my first wedding anniversary, and I did indeed spend the full day with my wife, who also worked the convention (in fact, it's through her that I got in there, and I'm now part of "the gang", which makes me happy). We had dinner afterwards, but no gifts were exchanged... rather, we exchanged some comics for merchandise and Aden got a beefy 12" Nightwing (that, I'm sure, sounds really dirty if you don't know what I'm talking about), while I got a pair of lovely ladies for the bookshelf. All around, our first anniversary was just as geeky as our wedding weekend... good to know we're not in any newlywed slump.
The convention gave me a lot of interesting thoughts to ponder about the nature of fandom and the culture of collecting, and now I have a venue to do it. I've been invited to participate in the group blog Second Printing, which is a blog about pondering fandom, so it's a natural match. In fact, my first post went up today. Talking about my nervousness about meeting with comic book creators or other celebritants, it's a bit of a rambling post, and I'll work on reigning things in a little for the future.
This reminds me that I also have had posted my Hoverboy interview (I interview Hoverboy's masterminds Marcus Moore and Ty Templeton) up on CHUD.com. I got to visit the Hoverboy Travelling Museum at Fan Expo this weekend and it was AWESOME! If you haven't already visit the Virtual Hoverboy Museum, because Hoverboy is bloody hilarious. I'm in utter awe of this project and I predict building success for it.
Some new for Frank, if'n he still pops around this site on occasion. Cliff Chiang, comic book illustrator extraordinare is working on a new graphic novel for Vertigo that spins out from Neil Young's Greendale album (which was also a movie, thanks IMDB). Bizarre, but true.
And finally, I leave you with this cover image to an upcoming SLG Publishing book, because it makes me laugh uncontrollably:
and there's a FREE PDF PREVIEW over on the website