I used to be cool. While my formative years were spent in geekish pursuits such as listening to heavy metal, playing Dungeons & Dragons and reading comic books, (which are all considerably cooler pursuits these days), I didn’t hit my cool stride until I was in my 20’s. It was during that time that my musical tastes and collection had earned me street cred among all the cool people. I listened to artists and bands years before most of my friends heard of them. I’d gone from high school outcast to the cool go-to guy for all music related questions.

I recap my experiences at Wizard World Chicago and Printer’s Row book fair over at Crimespree Magazine’s Blog. There’s a ton of links there to authors and comics creators. Jon and Ruth Jordan have a few comments as well. Wizard World Chicago was FANTASTIC. I had no idea that I’d do so well - I ran [...]

If you’re coming to Comic-Con and you want to find me, Come through door B1/B2, head straight back through the rows of comic-book collector booths into the 1300 aisle, and look for the color orange on your right.

If you find yourself looking at orange and black pumpkins, you looked to the left. We’re behind you now. Turn around.

… here is a picture I took last night as I drove towards Las Vegas. The crepuscular rays were much more pronounced in person. I blame the camera phone.

In order to get this photo onto the web I needed to 1) mail the picture to my gmail account, 2) upload it to LunaPic for cropping, 3) save it back to the local drive, 4) upload it to the blog.

I’ve arrived in San Diego, safe and sound. All the Schlock stuff and booth stuff has been unloaded and spread around the Blank Label Comics booth (#1330) at the convention center, and I’ve checked into my hotel. I had a great dinner with my friends Jim and Stacey, and now I’m going to try to blog.

Oh, look. It worked.

For those cartoonists not able to attend the San Diego con, you can still have your "hanging out at the hotel bar with other comics creators" experience by checking out The Sequential Artists' Pub this Friday at 10 p.m. EST.

Y'know, I read Seth Godin's blog pretty regularly. He's a smart guy with a nice turn of phrase and I hope I've learned a few things from him, too. Today's post is the first one I really felt like sharing, though. For this bit in particular:

Crap, I forgot to post this here. Alright, Comicon Signings! At the SLG Publishing booth (I'm sure you will be able to find it with the help of a map)! There will be copies of Zombies Calling for sale as well as little free ashcan previews of my new graphic novel, The War at Ellsmere. Come and get them and get them signed and stuff.
Schedule:
THURSDAY: 10-12, 4:30-6.
SATURDAY:10-12, 2-3
SUNDAY: 10-12, 2-4.

See you there! I'm nervous beyond all reason.

I'll be going to the San Diego Comic-Con again this year! I won't have a table, but I'll be there walking around most of the time, watching and mingling. I went to this Comic-Con for the past two years, and only posted about it afterward. This year will be a little different. While there, I may make some updates to this website, via my Flickr account, or even to my barely-used Twitter account.

Come see Tim Demeter run his mouth about Clickwheel's latest projects including something brand new for you iPhone IPod Touch users out there.  Room 32AB at 2:00 PM on Thursday.

See you there!