Feb 16 2006

HeroesCon: Indie Island & Artists’ Alley near sellout

From Dustin of HeroesCon:

All signs point to a sellout (of Indie Island and artists’ alley), possibly before this weekend. In fact, if I were you I would call us up rather than wait to get something in by mail. We’re not really going to publish a warning or anything. 704.375.7462–with the quickness!

Worth noting as well is that they now have entirely sold out two downtown hotels, both “convention block” and non-block rooms.

Rarely has a jerky move like Wizard’s attempt to squeeze out HeroesCon this year paid off any greater bounty for the intended victim than in this particular case…

Feb 14 2006

Notes from the Gutter: Drawing Characters

A new installment of my instructional comics “how-to” column, Notes from the Gutter, is posted at SilverBulletComics

Feb 13 2006

Indie Island: HeroesCon’s All Independent Section!

HeroesCon: Indie Island

I just popped over to the Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find site to check out how Indie Island is shaping up….Answer: Great. Go check it out.

Indie Island

Feb 13 2006

Boxing Bucket – Intro Page

The next issue of Strange Eggs is all based around the Boxing Bucket character featured in the very last story of the previous Strange Eggs. As a way to set up the premise of the character and the theme of the book, Chris Reilly wrote this homage/parody of the prologue to Alan Moore an Eddie Campbell’s graphic novel From Hell.

Boxing Bucket - From Hell
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Feb 09 2006

Just as I Suspected…

LiveScience.com – The Science of Hit Songs

Researchers created an artificial music market of 14,341 participants split into two groups to pick music from unknown musicians. In one group, the individuals had only song titles and band names to go on. The individuals in the other group saw how others had rated the songs. Turns out popularity bred popularity, which explains why there’s so much crap on the radio.