We just got the news that we will have an artist alley table at Anime Milwaukee this year! And, if all goes well, we’ll also have printed copies of our books! You should stop by - February 14th - 16th
It’s official, we’re going to Anime Milwaukee!
ANNOUNCEMENT! We got confirmed for our table at Anime Central, so I’ll be at ACEN next year <3
So here is a list of for sure conventions next year, and ones I want to try to go to (it depends on Artist Alley, but a few of these don’t have their page up yet)
Confirmed:
1. Anime Detour (here in Minnesota)
2. Anime Central (Illinois)
3. CONvergence (here in Minnesota, we just want to go to this one so we won’t have a table or anything)
Sent request for:
1. Colossalcon (in Ohio)
2. No Brand Con (in Wisconsin)
Will be trying for (and these are what I call the crazy ones since it requires a loooooot of driving):
1. San Japan (Texas, ironically it’s my birthday weekend)
2. Anime Iowa (it depends on what happens with the Texas con)
3. Otakon (Baltimore) or Otakuthon (Canada) – they’re both the same month and there’s no way we can do both I think, so it depends
4. Geek.kon (it depends on what happens with Otakon and stuff)
5. AWA (Atlanta)
6. Youmacon (Michigan)
7. Daishocon (Wisconsin, I think we just want to go back for fun and not for table)
I think that’s my list. It’s pretty… crazy, but with us having our book out and wanting to get it out there more along with artist alley stuff and cosplay, we’ve decided to try. This is almost a con a month starting in April, but this is inching us towards our dreams, because we want our book and everything else to be what we can focus on from now on
If anyone is planning on attending these cons and you see that the website is up (because some of them aren’t up yet), let me know so I can start looking into artist alley as soon as possible :)
Got into Anime Detour <3 Gonna go to Detour next year :) Gonna have a table full of art and books and stuff. This week has been full of all sorts of good news!
Hey friends! It appears that we will be going to Daishocon this weekend, just to hang out <3 This is pretty unexpected. We haven’t been to a con just to go in a long, long time, so this should be fun!
Gotta figure out what costumes to bring, but Tiana is a definite because my friend is going to be Lottie, and we can get pictures together finally!
Yay con!
Our cover artist for Seeking the Storyteller will be the Holiday Geek Expo as well! You should all stop by and say hi to us and them if you’re in the area on December 7th and 8th.
http://www.rain-arc.com/store/
This is true and they’re great people <3
Updates ^^
Good morning, everyone! There are a lot more of you than there was yesterday. Hi! Here’s a few cosplay related updates from me :)
1. I get to write a cosplay article for xoJane and I’m pretty excited. It’ll focus on how to be encouraging towards plus sized cosplayers and how saying things like, “people might not want to see you dressed as that character because of your size” is not being helpful. We get that you’re trying to warn the cosplayer of the bullies out there, but to be honest, from what I’ve seen/experienced plus sized cosplayers (or diverse cosplayers in general) already know that the bullies are out there and are cautiously going into cosplay anyway, so saying things like that just makes them even more worried.
2. I’m pretty much going to do Princess Serenity next year, for sure. She wasn’t on my list before but she is now thanks to this amazing fanart. Also going to do steampunk femme Kid Flash and found some awesome fabric for it. My wifey and I are talking about a third costume at the moment. I’m not going to lie, I didn’t really think I’d be cosplaying this much let alone have so many people interested in me cosplaying, but now that I’m doing it I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. If you’re looking at me as a role model for plus sized cosplay, then that’s amazing. If you’ve been debating on whether you should cosplay or not and my cosplay has someone pushed you to take the plunge, then that’s incredible. That really makes me happy. I never thought of myself as a cosplay role model, but that’s pretty cool :)
Someday, I want to do a cosplay calender, with all sorts of diverse cosplayers. Plus sized, different ethnicities, lgbt, men (that sounds weird but the two big cosplay calenders I know about do not have a single man in it and I KNOW they are out there cosplaying too, even if “Heroes of Cosplay” says that they’re cosplay is “boring”). It’s just a dream for now, but who knows what the future will hold. I mean I love “Cosplay for a Cause” and Yaya’s calender and stuff, but just… a calender with a variety of cosplayers would rock. Or, you know, cosplayers who look more like me.
3. We’ve signed up for three conventions already next year and are just waiting to hear back. This is Anime Milwauke, Anime Detour, and Naka-Kon. We are also looking at Anime Central again but the artist alley isn’t up yet. We will also be looking at CONvergence, but we’re not sure if we’re going to be dealers or not. We might just go to that one just to go the first year. We also want to look at a big, far away con, in the likes of Otakon or something like that. Just take a trip and go for it.
In regards to conventions, I’m always looking for suggestions on where to go. Now that my wifey has weekends off, we can look at a lot of conventions because it won’t use nearly as much PTO. At the conventions we’ll be there in cosplay, and have a table in artist alley. Next year, we hope to have our books there. Our cover artist was at a con with us last weekend and the covers generated a lot of buzz, so we hope to actually have physical copies of the books. At the moment, our publisher has been merged with a larger publisher, which seems to be a good thing, so far, since now there’s more resources at our disposal :)
That’s everything. If you just started following me, hello and welcome! During that whole mess yesterday I broke 600 followers, so yay!
Hey all! This weekend I will be at APE (Alternative Press Expo) in San Francisco!! Please feel free to stop by and introduce yourself and <3 I’m listed under my cat’s name Waffles the Cat ( I thought I would have a better chance of getting in if I used his name :P). I’ll be bringing along a lot more stuff than what is shown in the pics above
Reblogging to spread the word. This amazing woman is my old college roommate and she has amazing art. If you’re in the area, please check out her table :) Someday we will be in the area and we will have an awesome reunion I swear *__*
A reminder that we will have a table at Fallcon this weekend! If you’re in the area, please come by and say hi!!
All my Minnesota friends (or friends in general, lol), we’ll be here on Saturday with all sorts of things :) It’s only $8 to get in ($7 with a canned good) so be sure to stop by :)
Progress pictures and finished product for a clock I made for a local comic book convention coming to Minneapolis in October. We got a table for Fallcon 2013 at the State Fair Grounds which means that it’s time to make some comic book themed stuff. First up is an idea I had for a Dick Grayson clock.
Before I was going to just have their faces like this (Robin and Nightwing) with like a dark edge, then I thought, “Hmmmmm… let’s be a bit more tragic.” So I painted the clock edge colorful, like the circus. Then I added “Flying Graysons” to the glass. At first it was completely filled in, but I wanted to fix the yellow so it was more even, so I started to wipe it off to try again after doing the red outline.
And then… this happened because I didn’t scrub hard enough with the glass cleaner.
I was going to keep wiping until it came off then my wifey was like, “No. Keep it like that.”
So I did.
And ta da, you have yourself an angsty Dick Grayson clock ^^
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