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We are in our final countdown for AWA this year! It's this weekend! Yes! Thursday night is the SUPERHAPPYFUNSELL and I will be selling SPECIALLY SELECTED junk that I packed up and dragged down there in July in anticipation of this event. Then Friday the con starts and I have a bunch of stuff I have to do including ANIME HELL which is going to BE PRETTY ENTERTAINING IF I SAYS SO MYSELF. I have spent the past weekend editing video of forgotten robot shows and cavemen and Astro Boy knockoffs for various panels. It should be a pretty good show, I think. Hopefully it won't rain like it did last year... I don't think that's physically possible.

In the mean time you should go over to Mister Kitty and read the latest installment of ZERO FIGHTER. In fact you should read the whole thing and then when you see me at AWA you should tell me what you think of it. This latest update is the first time I've ever drawn an animal in a comic book, actually. I'm pretty happy with the last batch of strips, there are a few back there that will be getting redrawn at some point, but on the whole it's doing what I want it to do. I thought after taking a month off I'd be rusty and incoherent but that doesn't seem to be the case, the brick walls I occasionally run up against aren't as frequent or as high.

And in case you're thinking about asking a question on the AWA message board, no, you can't wear signs, you can't holler 'THE GAME' at the top of your lungs, you can't sell manga out of the back of your pickup truck in the parking lot, and if you bring a cooler past the hotel front desk they are, in fact, likely to take a peek inside to see if it's full of liquor.

Date: 2010-09-14 03:10 am (UTC)
ext_81845: penelope, my art/character (vaguely dissatisfied)
From: [identity profile] childings.livejournal.com
A con without dubious amounts of alcohol? Pfft WHAT

Date: 2010-09-14 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davemerrill.livejournal.com
GOOFUS wheels his Coleman cooler full of moonshine past the front desk and is immediately stopped, searched, and becomes the stuff of legend.

GALLANT puts his liquor in suitcases and rolls it right past the concierge desk with a smile. Or he checks in on Thursday when nobody cares.

Date: 2010-09-14 02:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com
I was always amazed by how relaxed US con hotels are. I've never seen a bathful of beer at a UK con, and not just because we don't freeze our beer. :-)

Date: 2010-09-14 04:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keenmixer.livejournal.com
So we sneak our booze in bookbags and storage bins labled "not porn."

Date: 2010-09-14 05:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tochiro998.livejournal.com
No, you just gotta be cool about it. Bottle here, bottle there. I mean, I know some folks want to just back up the Coors truck and start rolling kegs down the hall, but why be so 'in your face' about it?

There's enough stuff going in and out on handtrucks and such like, just don't act all "Don't snicker! DON'T!" when you're bringing it in.

Man, people don't be knowing how to do stuff anymore. In my day sneaking the VCR in was a big deal. Because I was king of hooking things up and swiping programming from the in-house cable, dig? Maids didn't care.

Just be cool about it, that's all.

Date: 2010-09-14 12:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] warpig1979.livejournal.com
Way I did it at Animazement, I just packed around a Camelbak full of margaritas the whole time.

Date: 2010-09-14 06:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tochiro998.livejournal.com
Nobody noticed the salt shaker? Well done, sirrah! :)

Date: 2010-09-14 01:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coderjoe.livejournal.com
While I would love to see the HELL show, I'll most likely be over in Habersham keeping other kids occupied.

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