Comicopia Update (Patreon)

The Infinite Realities Comicopia show is only a couple of weeks away! Whoo-hoo, yeah! Am I prepared for it? Abso-fucking-lutely not! Yee-haww! Oh, shit!

I'm still dealing with the last vestiges of the cold I picked up at NYCC, I'm a lot better but I'm still a phlegm machine and no one's interested in buying phlegm so I have to get some drawings done for the show asap. Unfortunately, many of my key AD markers are dried out so I had to spend some time going through them all and tossing the dead and the dying and order replacements. $325 worth, eeeyuck. Mister Art didn't have some keys so I had to get a few much-needed Frost Blue markers at Blick and they also didn't have some of the ones I needed. Frost Blue is the highlight color for Milk (of Milk & Cheese "fame") and I always need those, so I bit even though I wasn't spending enough there for the free shipping. Anyway, those arrived and I'm still waiting for the rest and hopefully I can get a few drawings done to take with me.

If all goes according to plan I will have 20 copies of Nerd Inferno available at my table. Infinite Realities ordered them for me and I will pay for them and hopefully sell enough to cover that and shipping. We shall see. I won't have any copies of the Beasts of Burden Omnibus, which is going into a new printing. I'm hoping it will be available for the holidays but I don't know if that's going to happen. So, if you want a copy of the Omnibus signed at Comicopia snag one from wherever you can in the wild.

Speaking of getting things signed -- signatures are always free, and I sketch in at least one of your books unless things get crazy. They rarely do. I'm fine with signing whatever folks bring that I worked on. If you have a pile of books and there's a line, what I will usually do is sign a few books there and then and ask that you wait until things die down and I'll sign the bulk of the pile. I don't usually ever see anyone show up with ten copies of multiple single issues like some of the manstream folks get hit with, so, it's usually not ever an issue. But I'm having to be more upfront about these things these days.

I will be bringing a portfolio with original art for sale, mostly expensive stuff from Eltingville. I can only take one portflolio with me on the plane so it's mostly high ticket stuff. I'm going to also bring some of the Austin Comics' Eltingville Club prints along with me.

If I have room between the portflio bag and my one piece of luggae I'll toss in some single issues of this and that floating around, I think I have a Catacomb of Torment trade left.

I'm all out of HOF pins and craft items. they sold out during the tour.

I usually don't end up having time to do commissions at shows, I got two or three done at Heroes and that was a 3-day show. Between working the table, making sales, signing stuff and talking I tend to not be able to draw much. That's why I try to bring some finished small drawings with me. Feel free to ask, but in general, I just end up drawing some little things for kids and do one actual commission which takes me forever.

I will likely be doing three panels at Comicopia, so that's 3 hours + that I won't even be at the table, so that will also be a factor as far as time goes. The panels will include one on horror, one on licensed comics and one on...uh, me. Oh, shit!

Hope to see some of you folks in Georgia soon. I'm already stressing about my flight. At least it's shorter than Arizona or Texas.

The Austin Comics Eltingville Club print.