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holli today, mainly just for the fun and to see what she'd get in her Robin sketchbook. The first artist she got (who did a lolarious French Revolution Robin on the barricades!) was sharing a table with Jorge Corona, who has done work on the Justice League Beyond title, and had this lovely portait of Danica (the Flash in Beyond) in black and white and in color, which I had a hard time deciding between.
I also comissioned a sketch of the Pied Piper from him, which turned out lovely.
He also had panels from a story he had pitched to Archaia, which I hope to pick up as soon as it is available -- a Dickensian tale about a boy with feathers, which looked adorable among many other things.
For food we had brunch at Golden West Cafe, which really is a hipster haven, but the food was good and I had some of the best carne adovada I've had since I lived in New Mexico.
And there was a yarn shop just a block away -- Lovely Yarns. I went in with the purpose of getting 50 g of fingering to make more Duck socks (a cousin just had a baby, who will need cute and warm socks come winter), but they were having their 7th anniversary sale, so I walked out with a shawl kit in Snallygaster, a skein of 'Bawlamer Oryuls' sock yarn that knits up as tiger stripes, both from Snallygaster Fibers, two different colorways of 2 oz spinning fiber from Wild Hare Fiber ('Vintage Medley' rusts and dusty purple, green, blue, etc, and 'Hair & Skin', beige to chocolate neutrals, with rust and grey') as well as the orange Cobasi I orignally went in for.
Then we went back to pick up our sketches (holli got a Robin My Little Pony from Carla Speed McNeil! adorable!), and I found both Terry Moore's table -- he andholli had a nice chat about when to call oneself a professional in a creative field -- and Boom! Studios. I bought the first volume of Rachel Rising from Terry Moore, and we'll see how I like it -- his stuff is gorgeous and he can plot a story, that's for sure. I also was given a free Get-A-Sketch floppy from the Adventure Time booth as they were closing down; I need to find out if my nephews follow the show and would like the comic.
Next weekend is Small Press Expo! Wish me luck, and not too much spending! ;)
holli today, mainly just for the fun and to see what she'd get in her Robin sketchbook. The first artist she got (who did a lolarious French Revolution Robin on the barricades!) was sharing a table with Jorge Corona, who has done work on the Justice League Beyond title, and had this lovely portait of Danica (the Flash in Beyond) in black and white and in color, which I had a hard time deciding between.I also comissioned a sketch of the Pied Piper from him, which turned out lovely.
He also had panels from a story he had pitched to Archaia, which I hope to pick up as soon as it is available -- a Dickensian tale about a boy with feathers, which looked adorable among many other things.
For food we had brunch at Golden West Cafe, which really is a hipster haven, but the food was good and I had some of the best carne adovada I've had since I lived in New Mexico.
And there was a yarn shop just a block away -- Lovely Yarns. I went in with the purpose of getting 50 g of fingering to make more Duck socks (a cousin just had a baby, who will need cute and warm socks come winter), but they were having their 7th anniversary sale, so I walked out with a shawl kit in Snallygaster, a skein of 'Bawlamer Oryuls' sock yarn that knits up as tiger stripes, both from Snallygaster Fibers, two different colorways of 2 oz spinning fiber from Wild Hare Fiber ('Vintage Medley' rusts and dusty purple, green, blue, etc, and 'Hair & Skin', beige to chocolate neutrals, with rust and grey') as well as the orange Cobasi I orignally went in for.
Then we went back to pick up our sketches (holli got a Robin My Little Pony from Carla Speed McNeil! adorable!), and I found both Terry Moore's table -- he and
holli had a nice chat about when to call oneself a professional in a creative field -- and Boom! Studios. I bought the first volume of Rachel Rising from Terry Moore, and we'll see how I like it -- his stuff is gorgeous and he can plot a story, that's for sure. I also was given a free Get-A-Sketch floppy from the Adventure Time booth as they were closing down; I need to find out if my nephews follow the show and would like the comic.Next weekend is Small Press Expo! Wish me luck, and not too much spending! ;)
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I also picked up a few back issues from the dollar bins -- Flash v2 no 19 (the one where Wally crashes a Rogue Convention with his date because has no other plans that night -- it's a wacky, cracky story!), Flash v2 no 31 (wherein Wally meets Linda for the first time!), the Five of a Kind issue where Boomerang and Nightwing have a mission on a space station (and Owen quits the Outsiders on the grounds he won't work for Batman even if the fate of the world was at the stake), and a late Waid issue of the Flash so I can get an idea of Jai and Irey's personalities.
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