Comic con went really well!  I sold about 35 of my comics, very unexpected.  People seemed to be very receptive of it.  I drew a bunch of (really bad) sketches.  To anyone who got one… I’m sorry… I’ll do better next time.

Overall, people seemed pretty pleased with my comic and stickers.  Lots of smiles and laughs, which is all I could ask for, really.  Makes me kind of want to keep going with this instruction manual comic thing… STAY TUNED.

Baltimore! This weekend I will be at Baltimore Comic-Con at a table in artist alley.  I’ll be co-displaying with a friend and co-worker, Brad Samuelson, and his brother, who run Oddnik Comics.  Also there with us will be Ben Woods, author of The Developers.  I’ll be with stickers, as well as a brand new mini-comic How to Fight an Octopus.  Be sure to come check it out, it’s sure to be very fun!

AWAAAAAAAY!

So I’m currently AT flash forward.  live blogging for the win!  The WiFi in here is really really spotty, so this is probably going to be my only post.  It’s been pretty fun so far, San Fran is a beautiful city.  The convention hall is pretty awesome too.  The keynote is in about fifteen minutes.  They have a pretty sweet computer lounge downstairs, I might sneak in there every so often to throw some stuff up.  Also, Mike Gong says hi.

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photo evidence (mike gong says hi!)

My current company, in it’s infinite wisdom, is sending about 90% of the creative department to Flash Forward in San Francisco.  Flash Forward is a design, usability, accesibilty, developing (etc etc…) conference that focuses mainly on the use of Adobe Flash.  I’m pretty excited about going.  I’ve always heard about it, and that it’s a lot of fun, but have never had the pleasure of attending.  Before I started this job, I was familiar enough with flash, and used it on occassion, but not to the extent that my new position forces me to, and I’m having a blast learning all kinds of new things.  I’m pretty stoked to go to all the lectures and workshops that I can fit in.  I’ll be bringing a camera, and my laptop, so don’t be surprised if some blogging happens while I’m out there (barring that the hotel/conference area has free wifi).  If you’re going as well, hit me up, I might be able to swing by whereever you’ll be and say hi.  Also, I’ll have stickers to give out.  ONWARD!

(p.s. Scott McCloud is going to be there talking about comics…I’m pretty much nerding out about that).

So, I’ve recently added a new feature to the site, using a pretty cool new web tool, Firefly.

It’s a pretty nifty little javascript tool.  You simply add a small string of code to your site, and visitors can turn live chat on and off.  The chat is displayed over top of your screen, in real time, allowing you to see the chat bubbles and cursors of other users.  When set up as admin, you can control the content allowed in the chats, and ban certain users from chatting on your page, as well as look up logs from your chat.  It’s like the next evolution of twitter.  People can leave messages, or interact with your site, on a whole new level.

I’m going to leave it installed for the forseeable future on this site, unless I feel it needs to come down, enjoy playing with it! (simply click the handy slider in the sidebar!)