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Convention Wrap-up Soon…

// July 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // Misc

In the meantime, here’s something to enjoy that reminds me of my time nerding it up here in San Diego…

WonderCon Wrap-Up: Saturday & Sunday

// April 6th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Misc, The Mark of Aeacus

As always happens, I took fewer pictures as the weekend wore on, because I got busier and busier and tireder and tireder. But I’ve got a lot of fun stories and a few snaps to share.

Marc Andreyko came by the Prism booth with a big grin on his face, holding a small, black “1 Year Later” sketchbook. He said that all of the DC folks had gotten these sketchbooks when DC launched that event in 2006 but, as a writer, he didn’t really know what to do with it. He decided to get Manhunter sketches.

The latest piece to grace the pages of the book was this one by Ethan Van Sciver. Hardly a sketch, it’s a real work of art!

Sina Grace came by a few times during the weekend to mix and mingle and to sign copies of Books with Pictures and Cedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic. The boy is a fashion plate, a flirt, and a heck of a lot of fun!

I wish I had some more exciting pictures to share with you of Prism’s social event at the Pilsner Inn on Saturday night, but I was too focused on hearing about new projects and enjoying cocktails and mingling with all the queer nerds. It was quite a successful event; we filled the place up!

A bunch of us headed next door to Chow to get some dinner (I’d been eating nothing but snacks and Vitamin Water all day and was ready for something with more nutritional content than beer) and saw this interesting sight outside.

Stefan Salinas came by with a brand new book, a thick, elaborate graphic novel called Within the Rat, and he wore his rat chapeau in celebration of it.

Kenne Morrison is the writer of a new series called Night Patrol, which he signed and sold at the Prism booth on Sunday.

I did a few TV interviews for news outlets that escape me, and on Sunday I called in to record a podcast episode with my dear, queer pals the Comic Book Queers. We talked about digital comics, upcoming new Mark of Aeacus books, and Prism Comics. Time flew by; before I knew it we’d talked for a whole hour and the show was almost over!

When the final bell rang, we packed it all up and shipped it out. All in all, the best WonderCon that Prism Comics has had to date, and certainly something I’ll look forward to again next year.

WonderCon Wrap-Up: Friday

// April 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Misc, The Mark of Aeacus

Hey lovelies!

I’m waiting in the iPad line at the San Francisco Apple Store, so I’ve got some time to share some tidbits about how the first day of WonderCon went.

As always, I spent almost all of my time at the Prism Comics booth. It’s like the queer comics drop-in center at every con, so the con pretty much comes to me. Convenient!

Storm came by to sign copies of his minicomic Princess Witch Boy, which was sprinkled with a hint of glitter and faerie magic.

I stepped in for an absent Patty Jeres to moderate the “Queers, Comedy and Camp” panel, featuring Joey Alison Sayers, Ed Luce, Sean Seamus McWhinny, Rick Worley and Brian Andersen. I asked the crowd to help me take a new Grindr photo to replace the censored Iron Man one. Just to be safe, I had them say “bible study” instead of “cheese” to make it extra wholesome.

At the end of the panel, I got to make the announcement that the recipients of the Queer Press Grant this year were Ed Luce and Eric Orner. See how happy he is here? Or maybe that’s just lack of sleep catching up with him.

Robert Triptow stopped in to sign and sell copies of Gay Comix and regale us with tales of his adventures over the past year. He had to fly in this year, because he moved up to Oregon, and was obviously happy to be back in town. I know the feeling! I love Seattle, but SF always feels like home when I come back.

Jeff Krell was here promoting his Jayson books and translations of Rälf König comics. His latest book, Jayson Goes to Hollywood, is a convention favorite and is already sold out here! I’d recommend heading to his website and ordering a copy or you might miss out.

Jon Macy showed up at the con with not one but two gorgeous graphic novels: Teleny and Camille and Fearful Hunter. Teleny is an adaptation of an anonymous erotic novel reportedly written by Oscar Wilde and his circle, and Jon’s produced a masterpiece. Hunter is the first in a series of fantasy romance/erotica stories with druids, werewolves and all kinds of freaky and awesome stuff.

The only other booth I made it to was the Hungry Tiger Press booth, to check in on Eric Shanower and David Maxine. Turns out they drove up from San Diego for the show this time, so they were running on fumes, but still managing to entertain visitors with tales of Greek warriors and the magical land of Oz.

Adorable overload! Justin Hall brought this Wonder Bear shirt to the con and it was an immediate favorite. It’s apparently part of a line of bear images including a bear luchador and a “cowbear”. If this shirt was any cuter I think my head would explode. Want!

That’s about all for Friday. Saturday was off the charts! I’ll write some about that tomorrow.

Zan’s DIRTY pictures!

// April 2nd, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Misc

Just settling down for bed at my pal Justin Hall’s pad in San Francisco. But I’m really excited for WonderCon tomorrow and am still wide awake.

So I’ll tell you a funny story; there’s this iPhone application called “Grindr” which is kind of like gay GPS. It shows you pictures of guys who are in your vicinity, arranged closest to furthest.

I love using it when I travel because it’s fun to see who pops up. Car trips are especially amusing.

But it’s not dirty! Well, according to Grindr, it isn’t, nosiree. It’s as innocent as Bible study. In fact, it’s so squeaky clean that they are obsessive about censoring suggestive language and photos.

About six times this evening, I’ve gotten notices that my pictures were too darn sexy for Grindr and they were taken down. At first I thought it was some kind of mistake and reposted, but they just got taken down again.

So make the children leave the room and scroll down… IF YOU DARE… and see my dirty, dirty pictures.

The tongue one maybe could have gotten by, but the Iron Man one? What was I thinking? I must be a sick and twisted individual.

Use your Facebook or Twitter account to comment!

// March 25th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Misc

I installed a new plugin on the site that allows people to use their Twitter or Facebook logins (or one of four other site’s logins) to participate and post comments on Northwest Comics articles. No more signing up and remembering another password, and your credentials are saved outside of this site for security. (You’ll never be asked to enter your password for other sites here!)

Give it a whirl and be a part of a new LGBT comics community!

Time for bed!

// March 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // Misc

Every so often I get into these moods where I have to polish and tweak and massage things until they’re just so, and it usually takes me until about 3am to remember that things never reach perfection.

Hopefully the improvements I’m making to this site will be helpful as more projects get completed! I’m looking forward to showing you a lot more great stuff.

Super Love!

// March 24th, 2010 // No Comments » // Misc

I forgot I had this.

Everything Old is… well… still old.

// July 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Captain Kinetic, Misc, One Man Guy

Hey there. I got into a conversation with a comics pal about webcomics, and started looking into webcomics add-ons for WordPress, which is the engine that drives Northwest Comics website.

As a test, I uploaded some old issues of Captain Kinetic and One Man Guy. Seems to work pretty well!

Zan hangs with the Comic Book Queers!

// April 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Misc

Zan journeyed to Chicago this weekend to visit with pals, take in the nightlife, and hang with the Comic Book Queers! A newly blond Zan appeared at Wicker Park’s Brainstorm Movies, Comics and Games to take part in CBQ’s podcast recording session, which will be released as a future episode.

Oh, here we go.

// April 10th, 2008 // No Comments » // Misc

I just installed this little application on my phone called “Twinkle” which lets me participate in the whole crazy Twitter thing really easily. I think I’ll try it out until I get bored of it (probably due to seeing something shiny).

If you want, you can “spy” on me. Head over to my Twitter page and lick the link to Follow me.