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October update

It's windy and cold in LA today. Perfect pre-Halloween weather.

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SIRENS #5 hits shelves today. There's more of Joker's vendetta against Harley, the Carpenter (from the Wonderland Gang) joins the girls for a few issues, and a long-forgotten Bat-villain reappears.

Tough Guys

Deuce and me being surly. Photo by Renae.

Calendar boys

Hey! Check out Deuce and Mugsy's photo spread in the new Boston Buddies 2010 calendar! The boys are celebrating December in grand style, with guest appearances from Worf on Hanukkah and Christmas Day. Even Super Rica and Rashy get in on the fun.

http://www.bostonbuddies.org/2010BostonBuddiesRescueCalendar.htm

And remember, it's never too early to start your holiday shopping. A Boston Buddies Calendar makes a swell gift for every animal lover on your list, with every cent going to rescue a...

Smoke signals

Woke up to another furnace hot day and gray-yellow sky. Most of the surrounding LA hills are still on fire, putting my home town on equal footing with the land of Mordor for the world's most undesirable vacation spot.

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Here's some more info. on the Guiness World Record Award Batman: Arkham Asylum won while I was in England:

http://gameolosophy.com/games/batman-arkham-asylum-sets-a-guiness-world-record/

Once again, I must clarify that Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski actually created B:TAS, tho...

Oh the days dwindle down...

Oh man, September already? This year has sure gone fast. Each day I open the mailbox to more Christmas catalogues. We're now well into fire season here in LA. It's really bad this year and will probably get worse before we get our first rains, which will most likely be sometime in late October. The long-range weathner forcasts assure me there will be nothing by the 15th of this month, at any rate. And just three days ago I was in London's pouring rain.

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I had a good time in London. I wen

Trail of the Bat

In London again, this time for the release of the Batman - Arkham Asylum game. Took my mom with me as traveling companion. She had a look-see around Rocksteady Studios this morning and was very impressed. Made many friends with the game crew as well. Later she went off to Harrods and museums while I went around town with the PR crew and did about a dozen interviews, TV, radio, print, net, etc., etc., Arkham comes out in the UK tomorrow, Friday. I will be signing copies at Game, 100 Oxford

Smithereens

Back from nine days in Vancouver. A more detailed post of what I was doing there will come at a later time. I will say I liked Vancouver a lot. Pretty city, nice folks, good proximity to the wilds of British Columbia where I also visited briefly.

One of my favorite place to eat there was at a Japanese hot dog stand outside my hotel called, not surprisingly, Japa Dog. A typical offering would be Japanese pork sausage with fish flakes and wasabi mayo. Tastes better than it sounds. My co-wor

Final Comic Con tid bits...

San Diego '09 is a memory. Before it fades completely, I will jot down a few lasting thoughts...

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We arrived late at the Hyatt to discover they had sold our room. As a consolation, they gave us the Presidential Suite for the same price. As most nights of our stay were already being picked up by other companies, that worked out rather well price wise. The suite had his and hers bathrooms, a separate computer room and a bathtub roughly the size of our house.

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During a signing with Paul L

Con-clusion

Below you see my big purchase for the 2009 SD con, a pair of vintage Bugs and Daffy figurines circa 1946 from the Shaw Pottery Co. in good old LA. Eric Goldberg and I were oohing and ahhing over them and Misty said if I didn't get them I'd be sorry. Once I put them on my Annie shelf I realized Misty had made the right call. She nearly always does. Thanks also for posting the pic, love.



This year's con was, like most of them a weird combination of fun, stress, confusion and excitement. The fan

Comic Con 2009

I'll be at Comic Con in San Diego next week. I'm not doing any scheduled signings, but Dinicartoons will be at booth #1803 with The Art of Laurie B! and the band Kirby Krackle. Come on by and say hi. Laurie B. will have a new Pure Heroine sketchbook for sale, in addition to a new set of Jingle Belle and Polly Green prints. We'll also be selling a very cool girl's tee shirt with Polly on it designed by Lynne Naylor. Good stuff.

I will be appearing on several panels throughout the con. They