Yesterday, I took the trolley down to the Convention Center and poked around at Comic Con. The other day I was kind of sad I didn’t pay more attention to the fact that the days I wanted to attend had been sold out online, but there were some really good trade offs to going on a Friday when everyone was toiling away at work.

One being that it is less crowded and somebody who is short, like myself, this makes for easier crowd navigation. Being jostled around by people taller than me so they can be first in line for movie trailers or meeting their comic book hero or creator of their wildest wet dream can really set my teeth on edge. Gladly, this didn’t happen very often and was typically restricted to children with too much energy and sugar for their own damn good.

By the time I had gotten down there, the first break out session I thought of going to was already in session (it was some lawyer giving the low down on copyright laws and protection of the creator), so I wandered about collecting free stuff, looking at art and comics from indy publications, and trying various software demo’s out and entering contests. I chatted with a girl who was manning the booth for GirlsDrawinGirls, which is awesome! They were on NPR yesterday too.

Most of my time was actually putting faces with names from the internet at the Prism Comics booth. Shooting the shit with the guys and girls there, buying some Hard To Swallow Comics and some comics from Class Comics, and being asked to intro Alien Boot Camp on Logo in front of the Prism Comics booth. I hope I didn’t come off retarded.

All in all, a very good time!

I’m taking Friday off to head on down to Comic Con. Stupidly, I neglected to check Prism Comics website to see what was going on Thursday and Saturday and now Saturday is sold out and both of those days seem somewhat more interesting than the day I chose.

Well, if you are heading down there on Friday, give me a shout.

Since 2000, BananaGuide‘s mission has been to entertain and inform gay men about Web-based porn through their blog, galleries, site reviews and Web directory. It’s won tons of accolades from many sites and magazines and now they’ve thrown a bunch of questions at me, so I dropped my pants. No really. It’s so NSFW!

Check out the interview just completed over at BananaGuide

I recently finished my contribution to one of the best independent queer comics around – Hard To Swallow Comix, Issue #3. I was initially approached to participate in issue #2, but the more I worked on the story I originally crafted, the more I thought it was a big, wet fart. So I did what anyone would do in my position, I put it in the shredder so nobody would ever see it.

I’ve been knocking around some characters that I want to eventually flesh out in a mini-series and condensed a scene into a short story for HTS 3. It’s called Dem Bones. Happily, it came together and the artwork has enough sex, mystery and moodiness in it’s 6 pages that I’m free to develop the main character further without putting him into a box right out of the blocks. I hope people like it when it comes out this fall!

In the meantime, check out the two talented guys who’ve brought it to you in the first place – Dogspunk’s tattoo and illustration site and Justin Hall‘s website. Also, check out Dogspunk’s blog when you get a moment.

Just a quick little design I did of the rabid evil ape.
Enjoy your 4th of July, where you remember how life was just 7 years ago.

Before you are huddled around your friends with a beer in your hand, enjoying what freedoms you have left as you are distracted by pretty fireworks, remember there are over 100 scandals that this administration have perpetrated against the American people and the world. You can read them in great detail here, where you need a list to keep track of them all.

Here are some of my favorite scandals that put the “mock” in democracy:

• Plamegate (during a war?)
• Commuting (with the possibly pardoning the patsy) Scooter Libby’s Prison Sentence
• Overseas, Secret Prisons Used For Torture
• Firing of US Attorneys Who Weren’t Lock-step with the Administration of Evil
• The Iraq War/ No WMDs
• Illegal Spying on American Public
• Ignoring Global Warming
• Hurricane Katrina
• Torture, Indefinite Detention, the End of Habeas Corpus, and Kangaroo Courts
• Dubai Port Deal
• Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
• Healthcare (see the movie Sicko!)
• The Terri Schiavo Morality Talent Show
• Abu Ghraib
• “Free-Speech Zones”

Don’t you wish Al Gore was president? Happy Independence Day!

To those that said they were coming and didn’t show, you really missed out!

It was a decent turn out for the reception as my iPod cranked out the OpIvy, Distillers, classic ska, The Slackers and lots more on my specially chosen playlist. Six guys went under the clippers by the attentive hands of Tax and got their heads shaved in the window of the gallery, nearly making some of the passers-by fall flat on their face causing the gallery crowd to nearly wet themselves laughing. Newcastle, Guinness, Red Stripe, and for those adventurous enough, “Irish Car Bombs” were consumed. Mmm!

I met zine makers and a very cool gentleman from Prism Comics, where I may be doing some sort of signing at their booth at ComicCon at the end of July! Greeting cards were popping off the shelves like they were going out of style and several collectors are looking at getting a set of prints at the close of the show. I got to meet lots of excellent folks – guys and girls – who are old and new fans and got to really talk with people over a couple of beers about fun things like: fisting, comic books, dirty jock straps, big boots on bikers, and what other disturbing ideas are lurking in this head of mine that you’ve all grown to love and cherish. It ran a little long but that’s not a complaint – it’s a compliment.

Thank you to Rick Castro, his gallery, and the charming Glen Hanson for extending this invite to take part in this group show and being there to support my night. Thank you to all who turned out and the new friends who made the night a success!