Quick rundown on the past month ('cos yeah, that's how long it's been -- sorry :/ )... ImageCon, the show our last blog mentioned? AWESOME! Rita, Eroll, McLain and Matt all ROCKED that place, the gospel of CCP got its time in California, and McLain now has photos of himself kicking it with Robert Kirkman which I imagine are going up on his wall somewhere.
No rest for us afterward though, because the very next weekend it was the Staple! Independent Media Expo right here in Austin. This is always one of my favorite shows of the year. You won't find any'a your Marvel or your DC titles. You miiight get to meet an artist from IDW or Dark Horse*, but mostly you'll meet people doing their own thing, telling their own stories in their own ways for the love of the game. Staple! is a show where I always walk out feeling even a little bit more in-love with comics than I did walking in. I originally thought I was only supposed to work the CCP tables for the first half-day, but I ended up being there the entire weekend -- Never even got free-time enough to jump in the Kevin Eastman queue :\ Aahh well. Good Times had!
If anyone reading this has stories or stuff to share from either of those shows, leave us a comment -- We'd love to hear 'em!
Since then, it's continued to be a busy month. McLain's been wrangling pages and keeping us on-point with upcoming shows. I've been working on Reichenbach #2 pages during my off-hours, which are getting a bit harder to come by lately. Vo Nguyen's finished like eight card-sets, accepted another four, and is actually looking into creating HIS OWN on top of those. Sam Lotfi continues traveling the road to Reckless, and Rita Moore is going full-tilt on FLIP:Relapse. All our other artists continue to credit the good name of our medium.
And, it has to be said: 5:56a this morning of 03/18/2012 marked the arrival of Elijah Humble, second son to our writer Seth! CONGRATULATIONS! Your stories are solid, your mead is delicious, but he and Alexander will be your greatest contributions to the world.
Anyway, that's the CCP Comics filler issue for this week. Stay tuned -- Soon we'll announce our upcoming convention schedule, preview works in progress, maybe even shift back to talk about weeklies! (The world has GOT TO KNOW about Swamp Thing #7 -- But yeah, a conversation for another post!)
Y'all take care,
~Beaver
*case in point, a couple'a years ago I got to meet one of MY heroes, Guy Davis, who at that time was KILLING PEOPLE with his work on BPRD. Nice man, very down-to-earth. Sorry I geeked out so hard, Guy :D
CCP had the biggest table in the artist corral.
ReplyDeletegood comics!