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Sune #5 - Blood: Page 20

rainingbells

on June 30, 2007

I will be at Otakon, along with Hexx and Anthony, on July 20 - 22. We'll have goodies at the table in Artists' Alley, and there should be a workshop, but I'm still waiting to hear back from Otakon on the when and where of the `shop. Come on by and hang out…and buy stuff so I can feed the children. :P

I'm going to try something different this convention, though. See, for as much as I may want to have in-depth conversations with all the people that come to hang at the table, I get distracted by the business, the things going on at the convention in general, all the people milling around…and I feel bad when I feel as if I haven't been very attentive to those of you who come by primarily to see me. So come on by, but understand if I'm a little scatterbrained. Because of that, however, we're planning to going out Friday or Saturday night (probably Saturday) to grab dinner some place, with anyone welcome to come along and hang out that wants to. You want to shoot the shit about the comics, characters, or just the technical aspects that go into making comics (Anthony, I know, is always looking to talk shop), here's your chance. You want to pick my brain, feel free. It'll be a little fireside chat.

So mark July 20 - 22 on your calendars. We look forward to seeing you there.

Sorry it's taken so long for this update. I went up to Rochester for training at Kodak, as I mentioned the last time, and so I was gone for a week, and then everything on the flight back got so screwed up. The plane from Rochester to JFK had mechanical problems and then left late because by the time they had it fixed, JFK was closed to incoming traffic due to volume, causing me to miss the connecting flight at JFK, so I had to get a flight back to Florida to a city that was two hours further away than my original destination, and my luggage was lost because it didn't make the original connecting JFK flight, or the replacement flight…. And then they wanted to charge me $90 to deliver my bags once they came in because they said I willingly deviated from my original plan. Clusterfuck.

Got them to finally give me my bags without charge, but it was a mess. And while my laptop, scripts, and sketchbook were in my carry on, my actual art paper and supplies were in my luggage. It has been almost 20 years since I'd been on a plane, and it didn't do anything other than reinforce my dislike of air travel, and my preference for driving.

Then when I got back from training, my press, which was supposed to be all software upgraded and mechanically sound, wasn't, so the field engineers and myself worked on it every day for the next week back, way beyond my usual 40. The OT was nice, but damn, did I not have time to do much else.

But now the machine is running and I'm not going anywhere until Otakon, so….

I went off-script again. I wanted to further flesh out this scene, but it's pretty much in the bag.

It feels good to be back. Feels like I've been gone forever, all the running around I've been doing.