Motor City Comicon was a total blast. Got to meet and greet many wonderful folks, including Wendi and Sean Strang-Frost, Pam Bliss, Matt
Feazell, Maureen Honoré,
Sean Bieri, Suzanne Baumann, Jen Hachigan, Paul Sizer and of course, Jim Ottaviani. How grand it was to finally put
faces with the names of folks I’ve been emailing with for months now!

For some reason, I got stuck far, far away from most of the crew, who were all arranged in an
enviable line of small-press solidarity. Still and all, they were directly across from Porn
Alley, so at least I didn’t have to look at …ahem… augmented boobies all weekend. Instead, I
was waaaay over by all the TV talent, so I got to see all the costumes… most of which were
actually quite good this time around.

I would be very out of place if I didn’t take time to thank all the wonderful folks who stopped
by: Loren and crew from the WEF, Stacy Durham (Bring your work next time!) from Garden City,
Steven Bates from Bookery Fantasy, Shane
Goodfellow, who came in all the way from Sarnia, Brian “B” Johnson, whom I haven’t seen in
literally five years; Gary Bratzel, Mike Bellinger, and Dave, Sabrina and Diana Harlan-Stein who
all came by to visit; my “Warehousing Agent” Sol Foster who lugged along 2 extra boxes of
Vögelein comics just in case I ran out; and the guys (whose names have been lost to me in
the post-con mental blur! Sorry! Email me if you’re them!!) who bought extra issues of the comic
to take back to their LCS so they could help hype my book. All you guys make it totally worthwhile
to keep working on the book. Thanks for the support!

Dinner on Friday (La Shish) and Saturday (KING OF SUSHI!) was grand. Conversation drifted from
the odd to the downright wierd, but was always fun. Hanging at the sports bar with the crew on
Saturday was grand as well – lots of sketching and bad jokes.

I got tons of minis from authors I’d never read before, and have fallen head-over-heels for Sean
Bieri’s Cool Jerk and Homo Gal. Other good picks were Jen Hachigian’s Lore, the new
Johnny Public(Where’s the trade? huh? huh?! GET CRACKING!) Pam Bliss’ B-36 and
Hopelessly Lost Steve Leiber’s Me and Edith Head and this totally amazing new book
I just found called “Infinite Kung-Fu” -Kung Fu fightin’ ZOMBIES. I mean, come on – Kung
fu, Zombies, how much more do you need out of life?

All round- a grand show.