So yeah, Stumptown was great. It was really cool to meet so many of you, to hang out with friends I rarely get to see, to meet a bunch of cool new people and to (of course) eat at so many awesome restaurants!
Here’s some links to some of the cool stuff I picked up (or had given to me) at the con!
– Spacetrawler by Chris Baldwin. I loved the first book,a nd Chris was nice enough to trade with me for the 2nd one. He did cool sketches in both. The sketch I did for him was awful. Also, I mispelled his name. “Chirs”. Sigh.
– Another cool shirt from Jenn Manley of Dicebox. I wore my first shirt Dicebox shirt to death until I lost it, and told everyone that I got it when I converted to Islam. Amazingly, NO ONE every doubted the story!
– A tiny (so tiny) little painting from Dylan Meconis of Family Man (I almost typed “Manly Man).
– A big, sexy orgy print by Erika Moen of Bucko. I once got kicked out of a Dairy Queen in Oregon City for reading Erika’s comic DAR.
– I needed a bag so I picked up a really cool blue one with a black screen print on it. I think it was from either Sara Varon or Jen Tong, but I might be wrong.
– I got a copy The Intrepid Girl Bot from Diana Nock, who drew a picture of Earth Eater Lad in it. Earth Eater Lad is like Matter Eater Lad, except his power is to eat the entire earth. You know how there used to be an Earth 2 and Earth B and all that stuff? Yeah.
– A big, fat Plus One book from Dustin Reese, Dustin may be married by the time you read this,s o wish him luck!
– A promo booklet for Artificial Sunrise, an ambitious multi-media space opera project by my friend Josh Winegarner.
– I had seen most of Becky Hawkins new French Toast Comix #8, but I got a copy anyway so I could share it with friends. Plus I got to look through Becky’s amazing sketch book!
– Addam Pool gave me a copy of his super great looking Princess of the Rainbow. If you were at the con than you saw his awesome banner. It totally stood out!
– I finally got a copy of Garage Raja, and it’s totally great! I can’t beleive I waited this long to pick it up!
– I bought a copy of Dreamquest from Jason Thompson at Sakuracon, but forgot to pick it up after he did a sketch. He brought it to me at the con, and while i haven’t had a chance to read it yet the art is fantastic! I’m going to save this one till next week when I can really take my time and enjoy it.
– I’ve been a huge fan of Usagi Yojimbo for most of my life. The first time I met Stan Sakai was in high school, where I shyly introduced myself an dthen ran away when he responded. This time Marah and I said hi, chatted with him for awhile and bought several of his awesome sketchbooks. I even gave him a copy of Modest Medusa, which he seemed to like!
– My friend Rick Marcks draws a series called The Words. I already own the original three issues, but the series was re-worked into 4 issues with a lot of good art, and Rick’s a good enough illustrator that I went ahead and bought them again just to see what he did!
– I picked up a nice set of Urban Sketch journals from Kalina Wilson. These make me want to get a sketchbook and spend some quiet time around town!
– a very cool anthology from the Cloudscape Comics Society called 21 Journeys, with a Medusa sketch by John Dalton!
Plus a cool drawing that I’ll post later this week!
Pity the kidnapper. 😀
I tortured my mom like that.
Ahhhh memories~
Are we there yet?
Bahaha the look on the unicorns face is priceless.
Mix it up a little, Medusa. Every now and then ask if you get to meet the princess.
Are we there yet?
first blood: Medusa!
Even when she’s Annoying everybody in the kingdom She’s still cute XD
even CU is all “Dude, shut up.”
Stan Sakai was such a patient guy. I bugged him for a moment, before the start of Sunday, and probably spouted the same praises and platitudes he hears on a regular basis throughout conventions. But he acted like it was all very pleasant and interesting.
Hey, I’ve been meaning to ask you: why are the medusas on the First Book Ad an the “Your Ad Could Be Here!” ad so tall?
That’s actually how tall she is. Her snake tail is pretty long, and we usually don’t see most of it anyway. Plus, it’s kind of stretchy like a slinky.
Heheh the classic “are we there yet” love how no one response to medusa, as the last panel was just priceless xD
LOL I love it… shes like I can’t fight but I’ll annoy you to no end LMAO!!!
Also First???????????? If so WOOT!!!!! IF not still WOOT!!! Keep it coming Jake please!!!!!!
Nice strategy Medusa, but I’m on to you! Trying to be as annoying as possible so they will let you go? Crafty…
“And I have to go to the potty too.”
Hey Jake I came up with an idea for your next strip
Panel 1: A bald guy sits at an desk with a report reading it and sipping coffee
Panel 2: The Bald Guy presses a button on his phone/intercom and says “Tracey have you heard from Jake about why he’s not here at work?”
Panel 3: The phone/intercom answers “Apparently he’s been abducted by an monster from his toilet and dragged to an magical land.”
Panel 4: Bald man responds “Right i’ll just mark that down”
Panel 5 up close of paper.”Jake taking off for Skyrim Marathon “
That’s pretty good. Comic Jake doesn’t seem to have any kind of job at all, does he? Hmm…
Doesn’t Comic Jake technically have the same job as Real Jake, because of that whole “Some guy online is making a comic of our life!” strip?
And now you’re referring to yourself in the third person.
at least Marah has spring break/summer vacation/ School fumigation
She can’t even remain dramatically downtrodden for long. I didn’t expect it, but at the same time, it sorta makes sense, how did I not catch it?
Poor Chainsaw Unicorn.
Hehe, classical psycholigical warfare. Lets see who breaks first. >:3
yes make them pay with the dreded “are we there yet” more painful and soul crushing the the chinese water tourcher.. any parent that has taken there kids on a road trip (or to the mall) can tell you what i say is true…
I recall a story my parents told me, when I asked the dreaded question. We’d only hit the mall at the edge of town at the start of an eight hour road trip, and I was dead-pan serious in my inquiry. I admire their restraint at not leaving me for the wolves.