Here are some photos! Remember when I was in Japan and took pictures of stuff that was interesting just because it was in Japan? Yeah, those glory days are gone forever.



Nearby was the James Paterson Expo of America! Right when I touched down I bought some sushi and horfed it down while I listened to Tom Clancy's agents drone on and on about making millions of dollars. Money, pfft, whatever!



Biff, Pam, ZAP! Comics are for kids! The Diamond controlled graphic novel area was conveniently placed near it's similarly juvenile breatheren at Scholastic. Meanwhile BOOM! Studios was in the main hall and Yaoi was somewhere in between.



For lack of a sample of the BOOK of Gunnerkrigg Court the Archia booth instead had a poster at the BOOK expo of America. But it's cool, all will be forgiven when I hold the hardcover book in my terrible and beautiful hands.



OOOHHHH! Gerard Way! That hot guy from My Chemical Romance makes comics!!!

Oh yeah, my names on there too.



Doug TenNapel's lawn jockey. Breakfast burritos at the TenNapel casa were delicious, good times had in triplicate.



I'm sure this sums up my trip to LA in about a 1000 words or so.

And for the Spokane Comic Con...



That just about sums that up!

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06/06/08
Update

Islands has a new album! A NEW ALBUM! Arm's Away! I didn't know! But it only came out two weeks ago, hooray!

Now as long as it doesn't suck I'll be happy.

BEA was great, btw, I'll post some pictures and other art stuff on Monday when I get the internet again.

BEA highlights

- Seeing Alec Baldwin and thinking he was Jack Donaghee from 30 Rock, freaking out and running away before I embarassed myself
- Getting free books! No one sold things here, so everyone just gave out books. Even me! I gave away like 40 books to librians and Indians
- I went to get a book to give an Indian guy and Art Spieglman was in my way. I babbled about how I love Maus and gave him a copy, probably confused the hell out of him
- Ate breakfast burritos at Doug TenNapel's house. Good times!
- Watched the Thing with Branscume in Hollywood
- Bought Band of Horses and Axe Riverboy cds at Amoeba Music, so far they are OKAY
- Regretted being unable to buy any vinyl at Amoeba. Tears
- Kazu and Amy, super couple, have convinced me to watch Speed Racer in a theatre if at all possible
- Jeff Smith pestering Gene Yang at the panel, good times as well
- Not embarassing myself in front of a room of people, this is good as well

My new Duplex (suplex) is amazing.

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05/30/08
BEA

I'm at the biggest book expo that I know of!

In LA! Eating sushi, ready for anything!

It's almost like Comic-Con but everyone is older and dressed professionaly. This isn't Cos-Play, it is Cos-Business.

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05/20/08
Journey to the West

Monkey, Journey to the West

Check this out! It's a stage production of the Chinese novel, Journey to the West. Apparently Jamie Hewlett did all of the production design and even did some animations for the play itself! They've got a whole gallery of his illustrations for it.

My cousin emailed me about this, she's doing make up on the set, which is totally awesome.

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05/17/08
ECCCCCC 2008

Emerald City Con was a lot of fun.

At some point Corey and me stole Bryan O'Malley and Hope Larson's table. Evidence.



Horrifyingly I was also interviewed by Ifanboy. Witness me tower over Josh and bob my head like a dork. INTERVIEW HERE.

In other words Emerald con was awesome. Good fun all around.

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