sketchbook doodles at Comic-Con

Justin celebrated a birthday while we were in San Diego for Comic-Con. He left our booth for a while that day and came back with two sketchbooks. He said he was going to celebrate hobbit-style and give presents. Worked for me.

Here's a sampling of my "behind the booth" doodles while the likes of Boba Fett, Batman, and various anime characters with unpronounceable names shuffled, slunk, and squealed past.

Enjoy~

San Diego Comic-Con 2008: pictures + video

Not really any reason to wait posting these; here's a little video of the San Diego Comic-Con 2008 with some of its 150,000 visitors. And a few clips of our time spent running Small Press booth M10.

I probably got a 1/16 of the show here. I walked from the middle to one end of the main floor. To get from one end, tag that wall and make your way to the opposite wall took about 30 minutes. Or more, maybe. Sure there were a ton people but it was also a massive place.

Also be on the look out for a few famous faces in the video below. They're labeled. Except the one at 2:05. See if you know him.



Also, if any one has any tips for making the YouTube video have better quality I'd love to know them.

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On the way in.

On our apartment roof.

Donato Giancola's demo. Stunning.

Kitty, our Can-Asian (Asian-Canadian) friend helped us set up t-shirts and build card houses out of our give-away postcards.

She also scored Justin and I free tickets to a pre-release showing of Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder. Get some!

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I'll be collecting writings and sketchbook notations in the coming days. Cheers!

KA-BLAM ! THE COMIC-CON REGISTRATION LINE !

That's all I got for now.

A few more on the Portland blog here.

COMIC-CON 2008

Hey everyone! We're here in San Deigo. The weather's perfect, the food is incredible, and the nerds are here. And I have brought all of my fan-boys t-shirts.

My personal highlight so far was the opening night on Wednesday: I had my nose buried in the three inch thick magazine of Comic-Con (the thing telling you where all everybody is going to be) I wasn't paying attention to the booth when I suddenly became aware of people standing in front of me. I looked up and saw 4 or 5 people standing there. We had nothing set up, no boxes opened or anything. These 4 or 5 people said, "Hi! We're here for Ticket!"

I sort of blanked, "Really? Are you serious?"

They had seen it on Drawn! and found our booth, first thing. Said it was at the top of their list. That was amazing. If you guys find your way to this blog, thank you.

I'll be posting a massive account of all our dealing in a few days.

-Cory

More Comic-Con materials

Here's a couple pages from our new collective portfolio for Comic-Con.

How do you show animation in print? Short of a devastating ocular barrage of overwrought and 12 inch thick lenticulification, that is a great question and one our Chief Designer, Matt Mantooth answered brilliantly: an image sequence.

This is from the Zune Arts' piece Le Cadeau du Temps for Microsoft's Zune.

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Here's some banners that'll be hanging at our booth (small press booth M10)


As well as one of our give-away post cards that'll be cluttering our booth.


If you're going to be around stop by and get some stuff!

And buy Ticket.

There, that's my pitch for the day.

Comic-Con 2008 stuff!

The last few weeks have been pretty hectic around here.

With the release of Ticket and planning and getting materials together for Comic-Con on top of real work, everyone has been going like crazy. I've done quite a bit of the promotion of Ticket myself so that's confiscated a lot of time.

But now printed stuff is rolling in and we're finally get to see some things come together.

The buttons will be part of the free, take away stuff littering our booth.


And the sketchbooks. I'm not sure how much these go for. I don't think a lot. Here's my cover as well as some sample pages. All together there are 16 pages in the sketchbook.


Ka-pow! Mythology!

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I've been posting a lot about Ticket recently but that doesn't mean there's nothing else going on. There's quite a bit in the pipe line. After a few days after a big project (like Ticket) I get a surge of ideas (mostly weird ones, but a few good ones) and I've spent the last few nights putting some of those ideas down. Look for some of those in the coming days.