Sakura-Con 2012!

This weekend was spent in a small-press booth at Sakura-Con! Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by; it was tons of fun and went fantastically! We’ll definitely be back next year!

We took tons of photos; here is a small sampling:

Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot, MST3K

Rei and Asuka, Evangelion

Inuyasha

Inuyasha and Kagome – so cute!

Princess Mononoke

Wonderful outfit!

The Dude

See more, here:

I serendipitously ran into the crazy-talented illustrator, Robin of “The Gorgonist.” She illustrates children’s-and-young adult’s books, creates wonderfully nerdy interpretations of just about everything I love [star trek, LOTR, Dr. Who, Miyazaki’s work, I could go on and on and on!]. Tomorrow I’ll take some pictures of the wonderful prints I scored from her. Now, I’m going to crash and watch some bad sci-fi and recover from this crazy weekend!

San Diego Comic Con 2011 – The Best Of

Yay! It’s so good to be home! We took so many pictures this weekend I’ll try and limit this to some of my favorites:

(Hellraiser to the right: wow!)

First damaged trooper I’ve ever seen. Wait for the closeup:

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Nightmares!

2 cutest girls all weekend.

Add your own caption:

Okay, this may be missed if I don’t point it out: it’s all in the details!

For you Dr. Who fans: also featuring these amazing remote-controlled hovering sharks!

Yes.

This is me the day I went in costume. On second thought, perhaps I should have shaved.

Sexiest storm trooper there. Period.

Extra points if you know who these two are.

This costume is all cardboard and papier mache. (?!)

Okay, here’s the real me, in my teeny corner of the nerd universe:

Oops.. I just meant to post a few photos but I got really carried away! If you want to see more pictures, see the whole gallery here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stasiab/sets/72157627290246882/

Emerald City Comicon

Kind of last minute, I attended Emerald City Comicon selling copies of the Virgin Project and the Virgin Project 2, and it was awesome! Thank you, everyone who stopped by the booth! We’ve done Emerald City… three times now (?), and this is the first year I’ve made it. Regrettably, I didn’t take nearly as many pictures as I did in San Diego last year, but here is the small sampling that I took: It’s probably because of the time of year (March vs. July) but this con featured far less skin than the one in California did.

(This one’s for the Star Wars nerds)

 

The 2010 San Diego Comicon!

I just got back yesterday from the weekend in San Diego selling copies of the Virgin Project Vol 1 and 2 with Kevin Boze and John Lustig. This was my first time to the world’s largest comic convention, but it looks like it won’t be the last. We had such a great time that we’re signed up for next year, hopefully with a bigger booth, more books (we sold out), and possibly some cute girl prints and cards. I would go again just for the people watching and costumes. Here are some of the standouts. There are many more pictures on facebook, here.

Yvonne, this picture is for you.

Our booth: John Lustig of Last Kiss Comics, me and Kevin Boze.

Me nerding out on the fact that someone decided I qualified as a “professional”

True story! This happened the morning of day three, so we had plenty of time to walk around and peoplewatch.

Yes, please.

Kevin took this picture; all credit goes to him for this one – probably the most striking picture on my camera.

This guy was by far the best Link I saw at the convention.

One of several epic hallway battles

This was the happiest encounter ever! Grant Imahara, from the Mythbusters.

If someone knows who these lovely ladies are dressed up as, please let me in on the secret!

EDIT: It looks like they’re from the videogame: Katamari – thank you!

We’re indebted to our hosts for the duration of the show, who took the best care of us – packed us lunches, and even made us a cake our last night in the city!