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TCAF 2013

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Overall this TCAF was full of me feeling overwhelmed and excited at the same time. WHAT IS THIS FEELING????

UWAOO TCAF is over. It was a lot of fun and amazing. Got to see so many new and cool people :). Thank you to everyone who came out to the show to check out all the comics! I like that TCAF brings out a really diverse crowd of folks, and everyone can find something that suits their fancy!

Rest of report is under the cut…

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I make an appearance a little further down in Julie’s report! There’s a drawing of what I wore on Saturday … there’s also a drawing of my BUTT, goodness gracious. Those are probably my fav pants right now. 

I met Julie and Kim in Montreal a few years ago and I love them!! Glad I finally got to meet Wai as well. Love Love Hill is a bunch of talented cuties, and I love how prolific they are … there’s always new books to pick up every time I see them. Still can’t believe they go way back with Kris Mukai — small world!! 

aidosaur: We’re gonna be a TCAF! Hey guys!  Ananth and I are gonna be at Toronto Comics Arts Festival this weekend!  We’re gonna be tabling with Benign Kingdom somewhere in the the cluster of 218-221 up on the second floor. This is honestly, genuinely, our favorite show.  Hopefully we will see you there! See you there! ♥

aidosaur:

We’re gonna be a TCAF!

Hey guys!  Ananth and I are gonna be at Toronto Comics Arts Festival this weekend!  We’re gonna be tabling with Benign Kingdom somewhere in the the cluster of 218-221 up on the second floor.

This is honestly, genuinely, our favorite show.  Hopefully we will see you there!

See you there! ♥

aidosaur: So we were watching Star Trek:TNG during dinner and this weird perfume commercial started playing and then Conrad decided it needed some honest rebranding and it all went downhill from there. My right hand’s still messed up, so this one was done 100% left-handed.  Y’know.  To make it sexier. anyway, sorry.  sorry everyone. Next time you go on a date … let us help you cut right to the chase. 

aidosaur:

So we were watching Star Trek:TNG during dinner and this weird perfume commercial started playing and then Conrad decided it needed some honest rebranding and it all went downhill from there.

My right hand’s still messed up, so this one was done 100% left-handed.  Y’know.  To make it sexier.

anyway, sorry.  sorry everyone.

Next time you go on a date … let us help you cut right to the chase. 

Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women

  • The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
  • Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
the-full-grohac: The Atomic Robo FCBD 2012 in which I faceoff with Dr. Dinosaur. Also Ananth is there. Brian and Scott turned us into Action Scientists! The FCBD story is super fun — and Atomic Robo is set up so you can jump on board any time at all, so for real: jump on board. 

the-full-grohac:

The Atomic Robo FCBD 2012 in which I faceoff with Dr. Dinosaur. Also Ananth is there.

Brian and Scott turned us into Action Scientists! The FCBD story is super fun — and Atomic Robo is set up so you can jump on board any time at all, so for real: jump on board. 

comicsalliance: I’m David: ‘Johnny Wander’ Is Charming & Who Should Own The Rights To Superman? By David Brothers Like most of you, I’ve got a to-read stack that kills me every time I look at it. Friends laugh at it, small children cry at it, and the police keep giving me the stink eye. I’ve also got a to-read list for those things that I want to read in digital form, but haven’t yet. There’s a lot of webcomics in there (Chris Onstad returned to Achewoodlast year, you say?) and I’ve been remarkably lax about getting caught up because I’ve got a never-ending reservoir of excuses when it comes to not doing things. But I found myself with three volumes of the webcomic Johnny Wander, an inexplicably long commute to work, and a (very rare) lack of excuses. So I read it. And I loved it.I’m David, and I want to talk to you about Johnny Wander, a comic drawn by Yuko Ota and written by Ananth Panagariya, about Yukond Ananth. It’s autobio, it’s funny, and it’s great. READ MORE David Brothers wrote a nice piece about Johnny Wander over on Comics Alliance! Check it out!

comicsalliance:

I’m David: ‘Johnny Wander’ Is Charming & Who Should Own The Rights To Superman?

By David Brothers

Like most of you, I’ve got a to-read stack that kills me every time I look at it. Friends laugh at it, small children cry at it, and the police keep giving me the stink eye. I’ve also got a to-read list for those things that I want to read in digital form, but haven’t yet. There’s a lot of webcomics in there (Chris Onstad returned to Achewoodlast year, you say?) and I’ve been remarkably lax about getting caught up because I’ve got a never-ending reservoir of excuses when it comes to not doing things. But I found myself with three volumes of the webcomic Johnny Wander, an inexplicably long commute to work, and a (very rare) lack of excuses. So I read it. And I loved it.

I’m David, and I want to talk to you about Johnny Wander, a comic drawn by Yuko Ota and written by Ananth Panagariya, about Yukond Ananth. It’s autobio, it’s funny, and it’s great.

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David Brothers wrote a nice piece about Johnny Wander over on Comics Alliance! Check it out!

kittyconcarnage: So this happened at MOCCA this weekend. I was unprepared. These two shouldn’t be real. I don’t remember doing this! But this is pretty cute. ♥

kittyconcarnage:

So this happened at MOCCA this weekend. I was unprepared. These two shouldn’t be real.

I don’t remember doing this! But this is pretty cute. ♥

aidosaur: We’re going to be at MoCCA! Ananth and I (and a gaggle of Benign Kingdom folks) are going to be at MoCCA fest in NYC this weekend!  Hopefully we will see you theeerrrrreeeeee Block F166-168! SEE YOU THERE *___*

aidosaur:

We’re going to be at MoCCA!

Ananth and I (and a gaggle of Benign Kingdom folks) are going to be at MoCCA fest in NYC this weekend!  Hopefully we will see you theeerrrrreeeeee

Block F166-168! SEE YOU THERE *___*

aidosaur: Penny and Walter’s Uncomfortable Dinner. brush and ink. If you were not aware, Ananth and I are currently posting pages from Lucky Penny over at Johnny Wander! This is a panel from page 60-something, but I was pleased with the inks and am sharing it with you now. This was the second time I’d ever used SketchUp to do a panel layout. Just a buncha squares to show where furniture sat — but it was a fairly painless process, all things considered. And it saved me an incredible amount of time! Yuko is killing it

aidosaur:

Penny and Walter’s Uncomfortable Dinner. brush and ink.

If you were not aware, Ananth and I are currently posting pages from Lucky Penny over at Johnny Wander! This is a panel from page 60-something, but I was pleased with the inks and am sharing it with you now.

This was the second time I’d ever used SketchUp to do a panel layout. Just a buncha squares to show where furniture sat — but it was a fairly painless process, all things considered. And it saved me an incredible amount of time!

Yuko is killing it

aidosaur: 2 Kawaii 4 U Omigosh I can finally share this!  At SPX last year, I was asked to draw something including the words “TOO KAWAII TO LIVE, TOO SUGOI TO DIE.”  Afterwards, Ananth and I asked if we could elaborate on the sketch and make it into some sorta design and then I did. This is now available as both a tee and a print over at Topatoco if you’re interested!  And there’s the rest of our store at Topatoco as well. Bunch of new stuff up in the store! This design is our latest, and we brought back the ZooLOLogy and PaleontoLOLgy designs! And Johnny Wander V3 is up as well! 

aidosaur:

2 Kawaii 4 U

Omigosh I can finally share this!  At SPX last year, I was asked to draw something including the words “TOO KAWAII TO LIVE, TOO SUGOI TO DIE.”  Afterwards, Ananth and I asked if we could elaborate on the sketch and make it into some sorta design and then I did.

This is now available as both a tee and a print over at Topatoco if you’re interested!  And there’s the rest of our store at Topatoco as well.

Bunch of new stuff up in the store! This design is our latest, and we brought back the ZooLOLogy and PaleontoLOLgy designs! And Johnny Wander V3 is up as well! 

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