Motor City comicon was a real blast. Attendance was light, but there were a whole lot of fabulous creators
there, and hanging out with the gang made it all worthwhile. Layla Lawlor drove up from Illinois and camped out
at my place for the weekend. It was a lot more fun having another artist to drive up with, and Layla finally
got to see Michigan — at least the inside of one of our convention halls.
Wendi and Sean Strang-Frost have a new couple of minis out and are branching off into illustrated
prose, with quite exciting results; Pam Bliss brought along her newest Hopelessly Lost But Making Good Time, the definitive gide to
making minicomics; Matt
Feazell had his usual brand of fabulous minis and cool Cynicalman paintings,
Sean Bieri brought me the most beauutiful new
art prints made on his Print Gocco (a little Japanese tiny silkscreen machine) in (gasp) 6 colors! Each one of those
colors needed its own screen… amazing. Suzanne Baumann was spotted
among us, helping devour basketsful of bread at La Shish, Jen Hachigan brought not one but two new issues of her minicomic, Lore; and Paul Sizer was there to show off two (!) softcover TPBs of Little White Mouse, along
with the initial issue of the third series, Open Space. At La Shish, we passed around many sketchbooks, doing the Jam Sketch thing, and even
did a jam comic on a piece of pita bread. Fun!