Toronto Fan Appreciation show wrapup

Wow, this one's really late. I have a good excuse! No, I don't. I've been terrifically busy; I'm learning French in the mornings, my wife is eight months pregnant, and I'm hustling work like I've never hustled before. Lots to talk about!

The Toronto Fan Appreciation show was the weekend before last. I had a great time (particularly during the busy parts of Saturday). Drew a bunch of cool stuff for fans, check them out:

Wonder Woman

Firestorm

Spidey and Batman

Deadpool

Catwoman

The Universal monsters (this one was super fun to do)

After the show was done, I went out to the amazing Tim Burton MoMA exhibit at the TIFF Lightbox theatre with T. and Russ. It was a really phenomenal show; Tim was my absolute number-one hero when I was a kid. Although I haven't enjoyed many of his films for the last few years, a number of them rank among my all-time favorites (Ed Wood especially). I could spend days checking out all that amazing work. Finish things! It's the only thing to do!

Lots of other things to check in about: I spoke at the Animation class at Dawson College last week about storytelling in comics. Big thanks to Dipti Gupta and her awesome class of future superstars; I had a magnificent time, the class asked smart questions, and I think I've caught the teaching bug.

Green Wake, the excellent Image Comics/Shadowline comic I am lettering, has been picked up as an ongoing series. I will be continuing as letterer; I'm super proud of the work everybody's done on the book and I can't wait to see what Kurtis and Riley come up with next.

I have also started a Tumblr site, where I'll be posting some older paintings and work from college. I'm also contributing to the Tim Sale Sketchblog, which is a weekly thing.

You can find me elsewhere on the net:
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More later this week. Got to get back to work!

Epic super-late TCAF recap

Hey hey, here's my TCAF post. Try not to have a heart attack and die from not-surprise that it's a wee bit on the late side, but honestly you'd rather that Proof #21 ship on time, right? That's what I thought.

ON TO THE SHOW

Drove up on Friday with the girls from Abe & Kroenen and talked about secret projects. So many awesome comics will come out of this, I am sure.

I met Kate Beaton! I was exactly as nervous meeting her as I was meeting Guy Davis in Baltimore last year. Just a monstrously talented person and it was a pleasure to enjoy a moment of her company and snare her book. The following comic is true:
Always awesome to see the Topatoco team; I've been a huge fan of Jeffrey Rowland's for years and years... In fact, the subtitle for Overcompensating (namely: 'the journal comic with a seething disdain for reality') was coined by me! Little known fact.

I run into Holly more than I do Jeffrey, to be honest, so here's the shoutout to my favorite team in webcomics:While kicking it at TCAF I was crashing with R. Hiro, one of my favorite dudes ever. On Saturday night we decided to kick out the jams and produce some fresh comics about the experience. The following was done while eating pie and watching a Hercule Poirot mystery. Party times!

Other awesomeness from Saturday: kicking it with Scott C. (another of my favorite dudes ever), saying 'hey' to Stuart and Kathryn Immonen (the first couple of comix who are too, too patient with me), and hanging at the Joe Shuster table and doing some drawing. I drew a Zatanna!

Sunday was much busier, I wasn't so completely overwhelmed by the craziness of everything. Got to kick it with Tom Fowler for a bit, and finally meet Graham Annable (who is crazy talented and a really nice cat). Also? Becky Cloonan! Can you believe it?!
The reason that this comic kisses her butt is because more people should be sucking up to Becky Cloonan. Fact provable by science. Pixu is great, great, great horror comics; buy it immediately.

After kicking it with Becky for a spell, I cycled around and chatted up folks like Matt Forsythe and Ray Fawkes before sitting down at the Shuster Table until close. And that's that! Here's a bunch of people that walked by my table on Sunday. Easily the best-looking people at any convention ever, I think. Just a very sexy and handsome bunch.


See you in two, TCAF. It was a real slice.