Ok, this might be the longest post ever.. FULL TRIP REPORT!
So I went to SXSW and passed out copies of Popgun with Joe K. from Image. Here’s a couple pictures of the Popgun sponsored party with Under the Radar magazine.
Next stop, NY NY!
Thanks to Dan and Lilli and their cat Wedge for letting us stay on their couch/bed. The bearded lady was quite a sight.
So we had a release party for Aqua leung sponsored by CBLDF, Comicspace, Smith Magazine and a both of others. I met Thomas who helped design Aqua Leung and got it ready for print. Totally awesome dude. Met and talked to Alex Maleev, and nerded out about European artists. Talked to Larry Marder for a bit, who is a very nice fellow. The Night Owl twins from Zuda were drawing machines, and really great people. Jeffrey Brown rolled through and I got his original pinup he did for Aqua as well as some sweet mini comics. NY Times was there, weren’t interested in talking to me because I guess I’m not from NY, but they interviewed all my friends in the room and at least mentioned me. Here’s pics, video and scans from the partay!
My buddy Ken gave me this sweet Aqua drawing, I need to get a frame..
Here’s some coverage from the night.
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/04/16/cbldfaqua-leung-drink-n-draw/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/nyregion/18bigcity.html
On to the con!
Met a TON of cool people at the con. Too many to list, talked to Claudio from Coheed and Cambria after his acoustic set at the Image after party for a bit. Met some new ACT-I-VATE members, met Jeff Smith at the RASL party, met Joe Flood who’s awesome and talented. Had a long conversation with Phil Yeh. Ming Doyle and Jacopo all the way from Italy popped by my table. Talked to Ahmet Zappa on the phone, and apparently he’s a huge fan of Aqua, and a pretty cool dude. Bumped into Nick Bertozzi and his daughter. Half way through our conversation we were told that our conversating was “BOOOORING!”, and we knew it was time to wrap it up. Saw my friends Khary, Wes and Alberto too. Mark, Gina and Calista from First Second were all great people, and it was great to finally meet them in person too. Here’s some pictures as well as con sketches.
At some point, I found the time to be in the ACT-I-VATE webcomics roundtable panel. It was packed (not just with us). Kevin (wizard writer, and buddy) did a quick write up about it. Here’s a couple bits from it linked below.
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/041808activate.html
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=156411
http://theprocesscomic.com/blog/2008/04/23/post-nycc-update/
I went to a bar with my buddies Dan and Nikki one night after a con and got a drink. about a half an hour into it David Loyd drops by and comes to sit with us. We ended up hanging out with him for hours, and we even did a little drawing together. We did a portrait swap. He was one of the nicest people I met at the endtire con.
On to Boston!
This was a trip to see my friends and family, but I did a couple signings at my old shops as well, here’s some pics.
The Weekly Dig also did a quick interview and plug for me.
http://www.weeklydig.com/arts-entertainment/words/200804/paul-maybury
My father and Bill at the clambox
Dotty and my mother inside where it was warmer.
My dog Miguel, who was very happy to see me.
Signing @ Comicopia Kuje from PJ dropped by
Same day signing at NEC in Allston. My friends Osvaldo, Albert and Melissa are in the photo
Someone asked if I could draw Aqua Leung smacking his friend in the face with an octopus. He probably didn’t think I would actually do it, hah.
After the signing in Allston we all went to eat and drink (thanks to NEC for picking up the bill, as well as giving me some books to read) Here’s me, my girlfriend Cassandra, Jess and Jen the super twins. Jess made me a cake, brought me flowers at the con AND made me cookies which made me very popular at the Image booth. Happy birhday to them both by the way.
Benn and Erin, my favorite people at NEC while I lived in Boston.
It was Melissa’s Mom’s birthday the next day, so I made a jounrey to good ol’ South Boston.
I drew her something, but you can’t see it in the photo, doh!
My friend Jim also got married to his new wife Jen. They’ve been together forever, and it was great to see them on their wedding day and I was glad I could be there.
Back to the South for CAPE in Dallas!
This was a super chill outdoors con for Free Comic Book Day put on by the folks at Zuess.
Met up with my friends Jim Mahfood, Dave Crosland, Kristian Donaldson, David Hopkins (Happy Birthday!!) Robert Kirkman, Andy Khun and I met Val Staples and Mark Guillory for the first time, and chatted with David Mack for a bit. I also met Jamie S. Rich, Mike Huddleston and Greg Pak, but I’m a jerk because Greg met me in NY and bought Aqua and I totally didn’t remember.. (sorry dude). We stayed with my friend Kyle and his lovely wife. After the con and special dinner, Robert, Val, Andy, Cassandra, Kyle and Britney (Kyle’s wife) all went to see Iron Man. Any ways, enough talk, here’s pics!
Annnnd that’s about it. I noticed Aqua Leung and Maxy J. both got props on Rugby.com on the same week. Pretttty cooool.
I did a lot more than what I wrote here, and met a lot more people, but I can’t write anymore. I had to get this done before I left for Charlotte, because then I would NEVER get the con report done.
-Paul
