My Little League team had a game last night (Tuesday) that ran very late. Because of that, I chose not to do the strip in color – except for Tony Robbinyou’s tie.
I will try and have a photo gallery of the Sci-Fi Valley Con up by Friday’s post.
Folks, I would like you all to meet a very special artist I met at Free Comic Book Day at Little Fish Comics on Saturday afternoon. Her name is Ainsley.
Ainsley and her mom asked me a bunch of questions about being a cartoonists and they bought my first book. But that’s not the best thing at all.
The best thing was the next day when I opened my e-mail and saw this:
Sincerely,
Ainsley Thoms
P.S. I’m sending this from my mom’s account.
And here is the piece of art that Ainsley drew of us – I ESPECIALLY like the fact that she took extra care to draw me in my red baseball hat! Click the file to see the bigger version~
And here is a picture of me and Ainsley that her mom, Lisa took as well:
Let’s all give a big round of applause to such a budding artist. I am told that Ainsley isn’t normally as shy and she promises to “talk my ear off next year at Free Comic Book Day” so I’m already looking forward to that!
Hey Wolf Pack gang… if you’ve ever wanted to get a commission from me and you’re going to be in Reading, Pennsylvania or Washington DC in the next couple of weeks, this would be a PERFECT opportunity to get one as I will be in both places in the next few weeks.
If you’re interested in getting a special deal on commissions, there’s details at the bottom of this blog post.
I wanted to let you guys know about a couple of shows I am doing in April… the first one is next weekend and the second one is a few weeks later at the Washington DC Convention Center – practically in my backyard! But first, a little bit about where I will be next weekend:
I wanted to go to the Comic Geek Speak Super Show last year since those guys do a terrific podcast, but alas, I heard about it too late and all the slots were filled. I understand it’s a great show and I’ll finally get to meet one of my teenage comic book idols (and a big inspiration behind Marc’s interviews), Fred Hembeck! Really looking forward to that!
The show will be at the Great Reading Expo Center. If you’re interested in learning more, click the logo or click here.
As I mentioned above, the second show is practically in my backyard and that would be…
The show is being run by my good friend, Ben Penrod who ALWAYS puts together a great show – whether it’s a one day or two day show. I know this is the biggest event Ben has ever put on so far and – from what he tells me – if you listen to DC 101, you should soon be hearing radio spots for the show.
I’m excited not only because Ben is putting on the show but also because it’s at the Washington DC Convention Center! That’s going to be a LOT of fun!
If you want to know more information about this show, click Ben’s logo or click here.
If you plan on attending either one of these two shows, and you’re interested in getting a pre-con commission done, you can do so by sending my $40 to my Paypal account – along with the commission request – and I will have your commission fully completed and waiting for you at the show. That’s $10 off my commission prices for this year and best of all, there’s no additional shipping and handling charges!
If you’re interested, you can e-mail me at capesnbabes [at] gmail.com for further details!
Okay, so as promised, here are most of my pics from Katsucon 19. The only pictures that are missing are the ones associated with the caricature sketch cards that I did. I’m planning on putting ALL of my caricature sketch cards into a new category. When I do, the Katsucon caricature sketch cards will go there.
In the meantime, here’s a little bit of explanation about some of these pics…
The first two pics in this gallery are of my daughter and two of her friends cosplaying as Homestuck characters. My daughter is on the far right with her tongue out in the first pic. She made her Homestuck costume all by herself and did her own makeup as well.
The middle series of pics are of various people cosplaying throughout the weekend.
Then there is the series of photos of Dawn Griffin and out table set-up – and later, our table set ups as we were able to expand to another table.
The last few pictures are of Dawn, my wife and our three dogs. Bruno is the lager dog. He’s a mastiff that we inherited from my father in-law. He may be big but he thinks he’s a lap dog. The smaller brown dog is Rusty. Although he may look like a Corgi, he’s actually a golden retriever/Basset Hound mix. The black and white dog is Blue – an Australian Sheep Dog. We call him Blue due to one of his eyes being Blue.
