Comic-con 05
Ok, Phew, quite the July I must say.
I just got back from a nice vacation in Italy which coupled with the San Diego Comic-Con has made for a real nice break for me. So forgive me for the delay on the CON report, but I was pretty much out of civilazation’s arms on the amazing beaches of Sardegna.
So wow, so much to catch up with … well, first: what a Con! I had the greatest time in San Diego this year, thanks to all the friends and colleagues that were down there with us.
Ronnie and I drove down together in his van on tuesday and that started the week with the right spirit, it was great to chat all the way down from SF.
The whole week had a special something about it … there were so many friends to hang out and share the experience with this year. Our friends and colleagues the e-ville press guys, whose books I am sure you’ve heard plenty about by now … well having them in San Diego experiencing their first Con was really great to witness. Sanjay, Manisha, Robert, Simon, Louis, Marc, Nate, Max and Kevo. It was also great to hang out with some of the Maverix crew Jamie Baker , Bosco, Sho Murase and Derek Thompson. And at our table all the Flight crew: Kazu, Kean, Johanne and company. we also shared space with longtime friends Bill Presing and Alex Woo (the nazi smashers you know) and even onemanstudio and animation celebrity Bill Plympton. Oh and let’s not forget Nucleus Gallery’s Ben and company with the ton of great prints and irresistible t-shirts.
I mean the list of good friends, nice people, talented artists just goes on … it’d be hard to mention everyone. But, it’s just amazing to have so many friends to which is so easy to relate to and have great conversations with; comics and animation seem to attract only nice people, weird.
Also Ronnie and I had a little less table space this year. That simple fact gave us more freedom to go about the con floor and overall made for a much more relaxing experience.
Good nights, late nights, yep. I remember Tequila shots … the rest if blurry. X)
Many thanks to Ronnie who manned the table a couple of those difficult early mornings!
So, yeah, all good … oh, Sketchcrawling sold quite well and got great responses from many readers, artists and friends, which is always the best part. Considering that Ronnie and I had started off thinking we might sit this con out, well I’d say it sure was a nice surprise to cook up a book each and to end up showing up having such a good time. Maybe we should always do this … yeah, I think we’re not going next year fellas …
As always I didn’t take as many photos as I would’ve liked down there, but I am sure many of you have checked the reports by now. Here’s links to a few if you haven’t: Ronnie’s, E-ville’s, drawing board thread, Ted’s, Marc’s and Jamie’s.
Anyway, I took lot’s of photos on my trip to Italy, which I just got off of a plane from. What a nice trip, I spent some time with my family in Genova and then headed on to the beautiful beaches of Sardegna’s Emerald Coast with my brother’s family. Pretty sweet. Bellissimo.
I even did a new comic on the ferry on my way to the Island, haven’t watercolored it yet, but I hope to share the disadventures of “A night on a ferry” real soon. Another highlight from the trip has been a wonderful and large exhibition of Yukio-e woodblock prints and modern posters from Japan in Genova.
I hope to tell you more in details regarding the trip as I share more photos with you.
So, arriverderci, for now.
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::Our
table …
::Kean,
Kazu and Kohanne – I mean, Johanne. X)
::Tough
guys. (from left: Alex Woo, Simon Dunsdon, Bill Presing, Robert Kondo
(rapping) and Louis Gonzales)
::Breakfast
with our homies … X)
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Uhmmm … coffeeeee
