Kumoricon 2010 Photo Set
Had a blast with Kumoricon this year, stopped off at the photobooth and hooked up with Spot the photographer and talked about some of the things we were doing with photography and how to best get cosplayers. Con’s always are a challenging photo shooting event, so here is the whole lot of them, hope you [...]
The Great Bay Chronicles of the Collapse by Dale Pendell Book Review
Dale Pendell has a winner with this book. Happily, the book the Great Bay kept me entertained not just as a series of smaller stories but also as a framework for authors and fan fiction to hang onto and try their own stories within the guidelines of the “Great Bay”. When the earth has been [...]
An Open Letter to President Obama and Washington State Politicians
Image by Getty Images via @daylife To: President Obama and Vice President Biden CC: Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, Congressmen Brian Baird, Norman Dicks, Doc Hastings, Jay Inslee, Rick Larsen, Jim McDermott, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, David Reichert, and Adam Smith Subject: Second Round of Stimulus a proposal. Dear President Obama, Vice President Biden, Honorable [...]
Best meeting ever with a banker and it was still no sale
Image via Wikipedia Sometimes you decide that you really do want to continue to grow your company beyond cash flow so you decide you want to go talk to a banker and see what all they would be interested in loaning money and providing deeper banking services than you have now. I did not want [...]
The Harm Of Gaming: We Present The Facts | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The Harm Of Gaming: We Present The Facts | Rock, Paper, Shotgun. The perennial questions of the harm that games may be causing us and our children are extremely troubling. Every week seems to bring a new survey or study that demonstrates links between gaming and problematic behaviour, with renowned psychologists, sociologists and publicists explaining [...]
Is This Is A Terribly Racist Tea Party Comic When propaganda goes wrong
Is This Is A Terribly Racist Tea Party Comic? Or Is It A Plant? Bleeding Cool Comic Book News and Rumors. So traversing one of my favorite sites, Bleeding Cool, the first entry on the page this morning was the discussion around a new comic series called “Tea Party Comix”. While I tend to stay [...]
Graphic Novelty – The Bold Italic – San Francisco
Graphic Novelty – The Bold Italic – San Francisco. In the mood for a drink and a man who won’t stop smiling? Meet James at Isotope. Want to get into an argument about the comic industry? Brian at Comix Experience is ornery and willing. Or try Mission: Comics and Art where Leef isn’t likely to [...]
Is Comic-Con Really Hurting Nerd Culture
Image via Wikipedia Is Comic-Con Really Hurting Nerd Culture? – Techland – TIME.com. Over the years, the con grew. I remember the first year we expanded to the second floor, and how huge the whole thing seemed. I remember the first time I saw a Games Workshop booth that wasn’t promoting 40K or Warhammer Fantasy [...]
The Works by Billy Martinez Book Review
I am a huge Billy Martinez Fan, so when I got a chance to get a copy of “the works” which spans a decade of his work, his life, and some of the bleeding edge stuff he does, I had to get it. I have not been disappointed, this is a unique view into Billy’s [...]
The Stimulus Driven Brain by George Glade Book Review
Probably one of the more important books about ADD/ADHD written in the last couple of years, George Glade (M.C, M. N., ARNP) comes from a background of his own life experience having to learn to control and manage his own ADD/ADHD to survive college. This book is about his experience and the experiences of people [...]
Living Hell by Catherine Jinks Book Review
What happens when the ship you need to support your life suddenly turns on you? Catherine Jinks book, Living Hell, takes us on board the space ship Plexus where life is idyllic as a group of human’s traverse the galaxy looking for an unknown and non discussed place to land. What makes this interesting is [...]
Emerald City Comic Con 2010 Picture Gallery 2
Image via Wikipedia Picture Gallery two shows many more costumes, and a lot more general mayhem from the show. Many more booths and a surprise appearance by Billy Martinez who is totally awesome. The story around Billy is very cool, we were putting out Billy Martinez Girls and a pile of Kick-Ass comics – and [...]
Emerald City Comic Con 2010 Picture Set 1
Image via Wikipedia Well Emerald City Comic Con for 2010 is over with unfortunately, but the good part is that we went running around with cameras to capture the entire event. Picture Gallery one is chock full of booth and babes, no bombs, but some pretty cool Alice in Wonderland take off’s. The lady playing [...]
Emerald City Comic Con 2010 Setup
If you have ever wondered what it looked like before the crowds showed up at a convention. Here are just a few pictures that show what setting up for Emerald City Comic Con looks like. Kinda fun, very empty as people rolled in to get setup. It was great that they let us use the [...]
Comic Book Resources Naked Pleading for Seattle High School Arts
Image by mtcarlson via Flickr This is a PSA to help Comic Book Resources, Greg Hatcher and the after school comic book arts program around the Seattle area. There is a 20,000 dollar shortfall according to CBR for the Seattle Comic afterschool program, and they will be at Emerald City Comic Con. With that kind [...]