So, yeah. SF Zinefest is creeping on up there! I’ll be there Labor Day weekend, toting my usual wares and working on something comicky at the table.

After that there is Alternative Press Expo from October 16-17. I’m hoping to debut a brand new mini comic for that event, as well as some original artwork.

Meanwhile, I heard about the opening weekend results for Scott Pilgrim and I am shocked. Shocked! It is an awesome adaptation of the comic series I wish I had written and people should go see it. So that’s my advice for the week: Go see Scott Pilgrim.

Long story, but the strip for 8/16 will be posted on Wednesday.

Sorry for the delay, guys!

Good news:

As Friday’s strip would indicate, a series of three small robot drawings made it into Studio Gallery SF’s annual Mischief show. I’m bummed that I likely won’t be able to go to the opening, because the pieces I saw when I went to drop mine off were really fun!

Also, I will be at Zinefest over Labor Day weekend. More details in August.

Other news:

My computer is sick. I can get it booting but I can’t trust it not to crash if I put it into sleep mode. So, playing it by ear and backing up everything as I go. Cross fingers for it, guys, I cannot afford to replace it at the moment ^_^;

Also, as so tactfully mentioned in Friday’s strip, I go in for hand surgery next week (it is related to this injury last year). It needs doing but I’m still very nervous about the whole thing, so, wish me luck there! Well, at least that’s over with! Rocking a splint but otherwise doing well!

I’m awfully bad at convention reports, but I will say that Wondercon was a great time and I will definitely be back next year.

I think my only regrets were that (a) I was exhausted so I had to pass on all the convention stuff beyond manning my booth, (b) I missed a lot of really awesome costumes because my booth was in the very back corner of the convention center, (c) I never got my picture taken with the guy in the amazing Alien costume. My priorities, I know

Highlights would probably be the people this time around. I had a lot of good experiences talking to folks and getting my work out there, and I enjoyed the opportunity to draw stuff on the fly (something I have not done since I was a teenager doing anime cons - next time I will remember to actually take pictures, yeek!).

Also, I was blessed to have some pretty nice people in my neck of the woods (such as Possum Press & Ultraist Studios, Erika Harm, and the Ladies at Freakout Wings) as well as a few visitors over the course of the weekend. So socially, a success?

Buzz Lightyear seems to think so.