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May 15, 2015
East Coast Comicon 2015
It’s been a month, but I am finally getting around to chronicling my day at East Coast Comicon. In my defense, I’ve had a lot going on behind the scenes with getting my own comic ready for release on June 2nd. The first five pages are up now on Circus Book. Regardless ofgood excuses, I will be posting here more frequently in the next couple of months.
April 11,2015
I ended up getting to the convention center a bitlater than anticipated, but all in all it turned out to be a great day. I met u...
January 30, 2015
Fanboy Nerd Rage and the Star Wars Expanded Universe
Two months ago, we saw the release of the first Episode VII trailer. Two weeks ago we saw the launch of Marvel’s Star Wars #1.Before Disney bought Lucasfilm, I don’t think I was alone in my belief that the fabled VII, VIII, and IX trilogy would never be made. Given how disappointing the prequel trilogy ended up being, I was OK with the final trilogy never happening. But now the Star Wars franchise has been given new life. The anticipation for Episode VII is already breaking all sorts ofrecor...
November 3, 2014
Dream Crasher: A Five Year Journey
The rootsof Dream Crasher can be traced all the way back to my sophomore year of college, when I first drafted an idea for a short film. It’s first working title was Post Human. It never made it beyond pre-production. I picked it up again in my senior year, when I wrote up a prose treatment for a Creative Writing class. I liked how it came out, but I was too distracted by my involvement with slam poetry at the time, and it slipped to the back burner.
The project wouldn’t truly come to life u...
October 30, 2014
New York Comic Con 2014 – Saturday
Saturday – October 11
After a solid night’s sleep, Jaime and I started our day inArtist Ally. I picked up volume one ofRunners by Sean Wang. I’m in the middle of reading it now, and it’s really quite good. I also stopped by Dirk Manning’s booth in isle H8 (easy to remember from Friday’s presentation). Had a really nice little conversation about the creator community and the industry. Picked up Write or Wrong and the first volume of Tales of Mr. Rhee, the latter of which I just finished and t...
October 24, 2014
New York Comic Con 2014 – Friday
Friday – October 10
Jaime and I left bright and early on Friday so that I could get there in time for the panel Breaking Into Comics the Marvel Way. I wasn’t sure what to expect,but I was pleasantly surprised.From all of the stories and bits of advice I keep hearing, I think it mostly boils down to two things:
Finish your work and put it where people can see it. Network effectively andand get to know your community.Sam Humphries, who garnered attention for his self-published Our Love is R...
October 15, 2014
New York Comic Con 2014 – Thursday
Back in June, Jaime and I both sat in the NYCC ticket queuefor a good hour before he finally got in and grabbed us both passes for Friday and Saturday. When my spot in the queue finally broke I snagged one for myself for Thursday. This would be my first year going to Comic Con with a known title (Dream Crasher) for the comic series Reed Olsen and I have been working on for the last four years. I had some last minute post cards printed up just a week before, and they arrived right on time.
I’...
