Man, I'm beat. Lori and I got in last night and walked over to the convention center at about 8:30. We got our badges and bags o' free loot, and wandered down to check things out a little. As usual, the main exhibition hall is bewilderingly large. You'll think you've walked at least halfway across it, only to look at a map and see that you're a few rows over from where you started. And of course it's full of people and things and sounds and lights and craziness. I spent a lot of money today, all on good stuff.


Loot!

I also got to talk to a lot of people: R Stevens, Sam Brown (finally!), the White Ninja guys, that dude who does Bob the Angry Flower, James Burks, Raina Telgemeier, Jeffry Brown, Doug TenNapel, and a bunch of other really nice people who I wasn't there specifically to meet. I guess it's nice to meet new people occasionally. A lot of it was pretty nerve-wracking (Did I say the right things to R Stevens? What if he thinks I'm dumb? Aargh!) but a lot of it was really neat, too, like chatting with the guys who do "The Amazing Joy Buzzards" and meeting some nice guys with a really gorgeous comic in the works about H.P. Lovecraft (writer by day, adventurer by night!). I predict the Lovecraft boys may have some problems, because they were pretty blithely optimistic about not owning or having permissions for any of Lovecraft's copyrights, but more power to them. It'll be pretty, anyway.

I need to sleep. Here is me and an Uglydoll for you to dream on:


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