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It’s crazy working and travel time again, which leaves little room in the schedule for writing Con reports. But I have to take a moment to send some love to the South. Good people, good times. 

So thanks to Texas! Our second year at Staple! was as fun as the first. Thanks to Uncle Staple for another fabulous hosting job. Shout-out to Denise at KN Comics for getting her butt behind a table and showing the world her awesome mini-comics. Thanks to Marc at Seraphemera Books for giving Little Vampires a retailer connection. And major love to Jarrett and Norma for letting us crash at their place. Their house is Geek and Art Nerdvana, and they made us feel so at home. 

And thanks to Kentucky! Being a guest at the Powell County Reading Celebration gave me the opportunity to combine business with pleasure. Win win, baby. It was like a miniature family and high school reunion up in PoCo! And I got some wonderful new fans. 

Look at that excited look on their faces. Oh yeah, fans for life.

Thanks to Mom and Dad and my bro El Tomo for giving me room and board and letting me eat their cereal. Thanks to all my family and friends for taking the time to see me. Damn, y’awl look good! I was happy to see that I’m not the only one aging gracefully. And thanks to Jennifer Francis for doing a great job organizing the Reading Celebration. You and Uncle Staple! could hang. 

I will end with some wisdom from one of the wise residents of Powell County, Kentucky:

“If you strain your farts out your tater hole, you’ll tear the lining in your rectum.”

Words to live by.

Any experience that gives me stories to tell is a good experience. WonderCon 2009 gave me such a metric schload of stories, that I must break them down into categories: fans, friends, Uncle Mario, and Carrie Fisher.  

FANS

One of the things I love about doing the convention thang is that I get to meet fans of my work AND meet people I’m a fan of.  I work both sides of the table, baby! 

Jason Sacks came by the small press area to say howdy, get a hug, and snag a copy of Project Elohim #5. Barbara Bixby and her boys gave Little Vampires the love. To add to their UberLunatic status, Elijah wrote me a thank you note for a sketch I drew for him, and Lucas invited me to his birthday party. AWWWWWW! The boys were wearing their Little Vampires shirts, and since I cannot even begin to explain how cool that is, I’ll just show you. 

Paul Greenwood, a big fan of our hand-crafted Little Vampire magnets, came by to snap a picture of me with a little blue friend for his Vanity Smurf: World Traveler blog. He posted that picture right above his picture of Sergio Aragones. Ohhhh yeah, my picture and Sergio’s picture are BFF’s. Thanks Paul!

Gil and Jen Lawson, fellow soldiers in the small press army, came by to enthuse about our shared  love of a particular penciller. Zeu, my fabulous artist on Project Elohim, is also the artist of their Charlatan comic. We got so fanboy and fangirl over him that I’m sure Zeu could hear the love all the way in Portugal. 

Little Vampires also picked up some new fans. 

I had the opportunity to be a fangirl too. The aforementioned Sergio Aragones was wandering about, joyfully humming to himself, when he stopped by the small press area to enthuse about our work. It was awesome for all of us small press folks to get such praise from someone so loved in the industry.

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