No. 28: A-Kon Escapades

So, A-Kon… It was really awesome. And by really awesome, I mean best convention ever awesome. Or at least ways the best that I've been to, thus far. It was really an experience – from the very gay Black Eyed Pea (think stereotyped gay – the fat man in leather hot-pants stereotype) to the near decapitation (I heard a beach ball was involved). It was really just THAT much fun. I met there – we hanged for the better part of the first two days, chatting Sonic and comics. Man carries a suitcase of sequential arts, by the way. Really. A suitcase. Yeah, my jaw hit the floor too – just never seen such a giant stack of Bristol boards. And the dude's got skillz – we had a crazy-fun Sonic sketchathon, practically, on Day 2. Always at least some five or six dudes, gathered around the table, either drawing or talking about Sonic. Anyhows, he totally freestyled a buncha' Sonic pics, one of which I colored and posted up all ready. Check his stuffs out. ^^

Speaking of Sonic and comics, also met a buncha' Other M readers. THAT was pretty damn cool, too. And on the subject of webcomics, I got to hang with again this 'con – we dueled in Rock/Paper/Scissors. Dueled… to the death. Or actually to trade off merchandising. I scored a slick black T-Shirt, in trade for a few prints. Also went to a couple o' his and Soto's panels – was aiming to crash the "Humor in Webcomics" panel. I figured I'd go and make fart noises. Or get naked. Whichever seemed funnier at the time. But couldn't find the goddamn room. Anyhows, you can check his comic at www.trunksandsoto.com/.

Sunday was the big Deviant Art meet-up, which was actually just some lame life-drawing shindig. I dunno – regretfully, I failed to pick up any of the other peeps' names there. I just hanged in the back with a couple of non-Deviant Art users, talking about pornography and the like.

Speaking of Deviant, though… , , and dropped by the table to say hey. Or they dropped by to say hey and let me know who they were. Freakin' EVERYONE is on Deviant, after all. But dammit, I can't remember names to save my life, so you know… Practically everyone from Kamikaze was there, too, so it was a nifty reunion. Hightower, Steven Gonzales, Amelie Belchor and… dammit all, I can never remember her name, but she cosplays as YuGiOh every time and comes with her mom and friend and family, who are all awesome. Anyhow… was there too – we saw each other at Kami K, but never got the chance to hang. Didn't much this time, either, but I did score an ass-kicking Scarlet Spider sketch from him, in trade for a Cloud Strife.

So anyway… It's really hard to describe JUST how ass-kicking this convention was in so few words (and this is all ready gotten long-winded XD). Suffice to say, it rocked. It rocked hard.

Artists, amigos, criminal associates, and/or the people that really should've filed a restraining order against me some time ago. Because I get naked around them. Alot.