Michuri Morikawa, Cy Dethan, Andrew Croskey, Valia Kapadai and me.
Insomnia's newest launch titles, Burke and Hare and Buskers, got off to a great start and Insomnia's table had a crowd around it the whole weekend. Also on display at the stand was Ferret's massive Cancertown quilt, which I got to see for the first time. I think you can get a sense of scale in the photo below:
Insomnia's Alasdair and Duncan myself with Ferret's huge Cancertown quilt
Special thanks goes to Valia Kapadai who painted me this beautiful rendition of some Cancertown characters (and let me borrow the above photos for this blog):
Cancertown by Valia kapadai
Check out valia's Deviant art page to see all the other fantastic paintings she produced for her Insomnia buddies.
Other things that happened:
- I spent a lot of drinking time with Stacy and Alex, from the Small Press Big Mouth and Everything comes Back to 2000AD podcats (respectively), the Eclectic Micks and many other like minded people.
- I picked up Bryan Talbots Grandville, Valia's 100%Mushy comic and Ian Sharman's Alpha Gods
- I finally met in Peter Forbes in person
- Andrew Croskery finally met his art team of Alex Willmore and Lauren Ann Sharp (as did I)
- I found some really interesting brush pens via Simon Wyatt, who generously gave me one to take home and try.
- Talked a little about the Cancertown sequel with Cy and Nic.
For a more revolutionary take on the the weekend, check out Cy's fantasy styled role playing blog post, which is quite possibly the best con report ever.
I've a lot of drawing on the table these days, which I'm happy about, so I'm going to be cutting the blog back to once a week, which will probably be every Wednesday night. Hopefully some new art and less rambling by then...
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