A Waste of Time

The image up there is the comic I drew while at Brian Andersen’s table at APE. I guess it was my table, too, since it had my comics on it, but he paid for the table and paid to print most of those comics, so there you have it. Check out his comics at sosuperduper.com , by the way.

That’s me at the table, drawing a little bit and looking pretty fucking adorable. The show seemed slow overall, but I had a really good time and met a lot of other artists, found some really awesome comics, and so that’s the most important part. The Sina I mention in the comic would be Sina Grace, whose comic Books With Pictures I purchased most of a while back and who is, indeed, adorable. He was sitting at the table next to me along with Justin Hall, who, if you don’t know him, has some really amazing comics out there that you should track down, and was in the first America’s Best Comics anthology, among a lot of other things.

Like I said up there, I found a lot of comics that were pretty great, and I’d like to give a quick mention to a few, maybe more in the next couple of days as I work my way through the stack of stuff I got.

That’s a page from a comic by Melaina, whose comics can be found and purchased at http://blog.melainacomics.com/ , and who is awesome. I was lucky enough to have her come read at one of the Papercuts shows I worked on with Dylan Coyle, and everybody should buy some of her comics. Go, now.

Next I wanted to mention Matt Runkle, whose hilarious comics can be found at http://www.matt-runkle.com/ .

I was also lucky enough to have Matt come to one of the Papercuts shows, and he’s great.

And lastly, for now, but certainly not least, I’m gonna mention Rene Capone, renecapone.com .

I would venture to say that the comic of his that I read is easily the best comic you’ll find this year about unicorns and abused children who cope by running away from home and wearing, on their heads, the corpses of small animals that they’ve killed. And it’s a competitive field.