Yeeeeeeaaaaaaah, that's been the story of 2017, hasn't it? Well, as I've mentioned a few times already, I DID manage to get a decent number of AWA comics drawn at the con, so we can HOPE the last update of the year will come out in a more reasonable pace than the others... but then, the others...
2017-10-08 14:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
There's two things about asking me comics-related questions in person: First is that asking me ANYTHING in person is a risky venture, since speaking out loud for me is a bit like running a marathon on my hands while juggling chainsaws with my feet. It's fairly unnatural, and requires a l...
2017-10-08 14:21:23 +0000 UTC View Post
If there's one gripe I have about the new convention center, ASIDE from how exhausting all the stairs are, it's how many fewer places there are to leave stacks of flyers. I REALLY miss all those little side tables along every wall, not to mention the innate understanding of where people are ac...
2017-10-08 14:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post
...and that was the WORST rain-related mishap anyone experienced at Otakon this year!
I'm sure you don't need my help pointing this out, but I've gotten really into doing photo backgrounds in Conventional Wisdom lately. Between the good response I got from the MAGFest comics and the whole rigamarole of having to go down to Raleigh after Animazement SPECIFICALLY to get some extr...
2017-10-08 13:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so my computer's still up on blocks, but while my old laptop may be woefully incapable of running my art programs (you'll notice a conspicuous lack of a picture with this blog) it IS still capable of basic typing, so i figured go ahead and post a blog post I'd been toying with. Or, to be...
2017-10-03 14:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I should be able to post the extra Otakon 2017 comics shortly after I get back from AWA, but I wanted to go ahead and get this out before I hit the road, because it’s relevant to that soon-to-happen trip: Do you ever travel to conventions solo?
I’ve mentioned 2017-09-27 00:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Really, I could have done some version of this joke for ANY show that's come out over the past ten years. "Oh, THAT'S where those GIFs are from!" "Oh, THAT'S where that AMV came from!" "Oh, THAT'S what that meme is about!"
So, a bit of housekeeping: I HAD planned to hold off on posting any K...
2017-08-19 23:57:14 +0000 UTC View Post
2017 marks the first year Otakon takes place in the heart of Washington DC rather than Baltimore, and that’s a pretty big deal. When any convention leaves from the setting you’re used to for a new one, it’s going to change your overall experience, even if you’re a hermit who n...
2017-08-17 21:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm glad so many people are liking me using actual con photos in these comics... but I'm really gonna have to start getting better about taking more generic hall shots to cover every potential and setting. Cos Lord knows I won't chance to just drive up to Washington and do this for Otako...
2017-08-02 20:06:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, if there's one think I learned this weekend, it's that facepaint-based cosplay is NOT conducive to my art style.
But yeah, I was really a sight that night. Sittin' in a minivan, wearing a dress shirt and tie, with hair all scraggly and face covered in kabuki makeup. I looked like ...
2017-08-02 19:54:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This is another comic where I probably neutered a lot of the humor out of the original concept, but as with other instances of that happening, I'm pretty sure it's worth it. &nb...
2017-08-02 19:47:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Yay! I got a set of Patreon comics done BEFORE the next convention! ...just barely, and significantly less than the previous set, but IT GOT DONE!
Anyway, this is one of the great disadvantages to commuting instead of staying at the hotel: you have to, ya know, actually COMMUTE. ...
2017-08-02 19:37:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Lord, that’s a terrifying title, isn’t it? And yet, here we go. It’s no secret that I really love Digimon. It’s one of the first anime I could ever watch on a regular basis. It’s THE first anime I ever fully and conclusively geeked out over. The first art I ever put out...
2017-07-29 20:52:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey wow! A new Patreon blog! How long has it been since we saw one of these? …probably since I last apologized for not doing more blogs, or Patreon content in general, and promised that my next blogs would be about me reevaluating my creative process and getting myself back on a pro...
2017-07-27 17:55:31 +0000 UTC View Post
CAN IT BE? IS IT REALLY TRUE? YES! I FINALLY FINISHED THE ANOHANA COMICS! ...it only took me seven months to watch an eleven episode series! Okay, no, actually WATCHING the show didn't take nearly that long, just the comiking thereof. You know, like pretty much...
2017-07-02 14:48:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh yes, there's still plenty more of THAT to get through. Don't worry, there's no where NEAR as much additional material to sort through as all this MAGFest stuff, but there's still at LEAST a dozen more Animazement comics coming to SmackJeeves soon, not to mention another batch of extra comic...
2017-06-26 19:25:47 +0000 UTC View Post
So... yeah. This thing took a LONG time to finish, didn't it? And believe it or not, despite the total page count being at least fourteen figures long, there's STILL content I was planing to use for comics but cut. In some cases, especially during that first blast of activity right...
2017-06-26 19:13:15 +0000 UTC View Post
While I still like video games, I don't really get around to playing them very often anymore, and it cannot be overstated how Not Good I am as a result. Even when I'm deliberately trying to get a Game Over for the purposes of 2017-06-26 18:58:10 +0000 UTC View Post
If you had told me back when I first walked into the Gaylord for Katsucon that ANY event could fill the place up to the point that basic travel from point A to point B would require constant micromanaging from staff, I would have been incredulous at best. I mean, yeah, Otakon ran up against th...
2017-06-26 18:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Having decent pockets while cosplaying is a rare, special thing. I genuinely do wish those cammo pants weren't as uncomfortable as they are, because they'd otherwise be AMAZING convention wear.
WHAAAAAAT?!?!?!? How can there STILL be MAGFest comics left to put out? At this point, all the comics laid out end-to-end would probably stretch out in a line that's longer than the Gaylord itself! And yet, it's true. For those of you who can't remember all the way back to Fe...
2017-06-26 18:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, remember back when 20th Century Boys was a thing? I sure hope so, otherwise this will make so sense whatsoever.
Also, HAHAHAHAHAHA "Weekly Anime Comics." At this point, that's become a genius form of surrealist anti-comedy
In my own defense, the ServantXService one didn't really require us to dwell on the fact that the children in question were, you know, DEAD. So that kind of helped.
Oh, and look! I only h...
2017-05-15 10:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post
If I can't find an excuse to work at least ONE Digimon reference into these sets of comics, I have failed as both an artist and a person.
(For those of you who aren't Digimon fans, both Leomon and Wizardmon here are remembered for dying tragically. In fact, Leomon has died MULTIPLE times. &n...
2017-05-03 17:03:46 +0000 UTC View PostNothing huge this time, but I did want to just take a second and say how shocked and amazed I am to actually still have any Patrons after the last few months. I am HUGELY grateful that you guys think highly enough of what I'm doing to keep putting money into it despite after all the problems m...
2017-04-30 08:44:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Eventually I'm just going to stick Menma into every single ghost-related piece of pop culture in existence. Clearly that's where this is headed. I HAD thought about doing two panels here, with Jintan looking at them as Luke Skywalker and other cast members in Star Wars getups... but figu...
2017-04-27 11:08:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, here comes the part where I get an entire generation of thirtysomethings mad at me: I've never really had any nostalgic conection to Ghostbusters. I mean, I don't think it's a BAD movie, but I've just never particularly cared about it, especially not in those childhood days when I was fo...
2017-03-19 05:26:19 +0000 UTC View Post
IT'S ALIVE! IIIIIT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!! ...is actually a really horrible joke to be making about these comics given the series in question. I apologize.
So, yeah. After all my belly aching about burnout and lack of energy and all that, we FINALLY get some Anime Comics again... and it’s thi...
2017-03-05 23:29:53 +0000 UTC View Post
(making this public, cos it kind of needs to be seen by a lot of people)
HEEEEEEEEY! Remember that blog post I made weeks and weeks and weeks ago explaining how I wasn’t gonna do Artist Alley at conven...
2017-02-22 02:49:03 +0000 UTC View Post