Hey, dudes, there's one last  hurrah for me this convention season, and it's a doozy!  On December 11-12, Dragon's Lair Comics in Austin, Texas, is holding Webcomic Rampage!  It's Saturday and Sunday, each day beginning with a panel featuring all of us webcomics guests, and culminating in some Webcomics Christmas Shopping.  Who's coming?

David Willis of Shortpacked!/Dumbing of Age
Danielle Corsetto of Girls with Slingshots!
Joel Watson of Hijinks Ensue
Bill Williams of Side Chicks
Randy Milholland of Something Positive
Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content
Josh Lesnick of Girly

These are all awesome people and Webcomic Rampage is going to be awesome.  Be there!

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So, like, I already knew this Bill Spencer guy was awesome because once upon a time he custom-built models of Nightbeat and Hot Shot's car modes. So he was definitely on my rader. (He also likes Batmobiles!)

But he showed up to New England Webcomics Weekend (NEWW) today with probably the best thing ever. He made me a Gardening Batman out of the old Kenner New Batman Adventures figure. It has a hat and a shovel and a potted plant. The whole damn thing is repainted, too, because that's just how hardcore he is.

Seriously. Like, holy crap. And I got so many friggin' compliments on him today. He is a hit. I have to, like, build a shrine to this thing or something. Dude.

I have dozens of other photos from Saturday to show you, but I want to make sure I give proper attention to this first.  I'll try to get those other photos up tomorrow if I can.  Lots of great commissions!

Hey, dudes!  Maggie and I are on the road to Easthampton, Massachusetts, for New England Webcomics Weekend.  Why?  Because NEWW is friggin' awesome.

We'll be there for the Pub Crawl on Friday night, plus both "real" days, Saturday and Sunday.  There are over 50 webcartoonists at this thing, plus MC Frontalot!  Basically, if a meteor hits this town this weekend, the Internet is dead.  All you'll have left is the LOLcats website and Movie-Comics.

I'll have a table where I'll be hanging out.  I'll have the Roomies! book, the two remaining Shortpacked! volumes, and some brand-spankin' new Dumbing of Age merchandise.  Posters!  Hats!  Also, high-fives.

New England Webcomics Weekend, the best thing ever in the whole damn world, is this Saturday and Sunday in Easthampton, Massachusetts!  I am serious, it is like eating chocolate while having sex on top of an airplane that Indiana Jones is piloting.  I get a boner just thinking about Webcomics Weekend.

There's also a neat Pub Crawl the Friday night before that I recommend.  It is booze + webcartoonists + strangers.

I'll of course have my stuff with me, the books and posters and hats and what not.  But those are always second to the Experience.   Every webcartoonist you've ever heard of will be there.  And we'll all be high-fiving.  Constantly.  Oh my god.

I'm setting up my booth at Intervention right now, and I only have room for one of my display banners.  I decided using the Roomies! one was most appropriate, considering its thirteenth anniversary today!

It might be the last time I ever display it, too, since I should probably replace all of my current banners with ones for just Dumbing of Age and Shortpacked! next year.  Ah, memories.

(Anybody wanna buy it?)

I'm home from Dallas where I had the super awesomest time at AnimeFest.  I am serious, that place is the bomb.  I also totally hung out with other comics folks like Joel Watson and Trunks and Soto and Amanda Bissell and was allowed to sleep on an awesome waterbed inside the home of J. Grant and Mel Hynes.  And one night I totally saw Randy Milholland and we made out.

Oh and I guess I had a panel.

And now that I'm home I have to prepare to leave in a day and a half for Intervention in D.C./Rockville.  I will be at booth 53. You should meet me there.

I am serious.

You should go to Intervention.

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I was also asked to draw Randy Milholland in somebody's book.  Joel Watson took a photo of it for me.

I'm here in Texas, staying with the hospitable James and Mel of Two Lumps.  We're watching Cannibal: The Musical. Tomorrow (today?), AnimeFest begins!  Please come say hello to me.