Filed under: Matt Gagnon
Back from San Francisco, the Alternative Press Expo specifically, and back into the grind. Had a pleasant but quick trip with Pier, Felipe and Caleb. APE is a lot like SPX, but the venue is bigger and much nicer than the confines of a hotel conference hall. Indie comics goodness as expected. No cosplay or Klingons or Stormtrooper Elvis. Although, there was some asshole dressed in a full body costume of the X-Men’s Archangel. I think it was more as a joke, though. I hope.
Spent most of the con “scouting for talent” and checking out new mini-comics. The big discovery, for me, was the art of Camilla d’Ericco. She has a gorgeous manga style infused with just a tad of Ashley Wood, from a few of the sketches I saw in her book Fallen. I guess it’s more the poses of her characters that look ispired by Wood. Either way, beautiful.
Chris Pitzer, publisher of the excellent AdHouse Books was nice enough to give me a free copy Johnny Hiro (which looks fantastic) and a Paul Pope sticker that I quickly slapped on my day planner. Thanks, Chris!
Ran into some L.A. dudes like Kevin McShane of Toupydoops, Kazu from Flight, J-Fish, and Dan Evans of Image’s Texas Strangers. I also saw a lot of familiar faces from SPX. I’m starting to really love this indie comics circuit. There’s a lack of pretentious posturing which probably stems in no small part from a lack of money and exposure in the community. It’s creators making comics for the love of the game.
The next two weeks will find me scrambling to get this anthology off to the printer. Simultaneously, I’ll be crossing my fingers that my new(ish) pilot script, co-written with Teddy Dunn, is approved by our respective managers to go out and pitch. Teddy and I have spent the better part of two years getting this story in fighting shape. I think it’s ready. It’s a solid 60 page cable tv draft. That said, I’m expecting our managers to ask us to provide a network draft at some point. Cross that bridge when we get there, I suppose.
Also need to find time to develop Secret Pilot and Secret Comic some more. Gotta get these developed in time to capitalize on the heat that’s sparked by the anthology and pilot.
Otherwise, I’ve been catching up on tv in my down time. Any of you guys watching Heroes? Last nights episode was great. HRG is a bad ass.
Jace writes about the fate of Veronica Mars over on his splendid Televisionary blog. Daily reading for me.
Back to work. Oh, and today is the annual Armenian Genocide Day in Los Angeles. Traffic is a bitch. Nothing like speeding white Mercedes and BMW’s with waving red/blue/orange flags to get you white-knuckled, clutching your steering wheel.
