I had a really great time in Chicago. I didn’t take as many pictures as I wanted to, but I’ll post the few I did take. Right now I’m going to play with my kid. He knows where the fun is at.
I checked out early. I am driving home and forcing my wife to blog for me so I do not lose a bet. I bought some of these Whirl-O’s on the way out of the show from RocketUSA.
It’s a tight squeeze, but I’ve really got about twice the space I was expecting to have at the Top Shelf booth. Today was a really great day for me for a mainstream show and the crowd wasn’t really that big. The majority of the sales are totally because I’m at the Top Shelf booth, which I’m greatly appreciative of. The new improved Fat Packs have sold really well. I also noticed that the Wide Awake horror anthology has actually pulled over some “Zombie” type fans that I’m sure wouldn’t have stopped at the booth. Not that they’ve bought anything else.
There are a lot of costumed people walking around and the best of which is absolutely the old man as Obi Wan. I didn’t take a picture of him, but he was really great. Maybe I’ll snap a shot tomorrow.
I was really happy to snag a copy of Jay Stephens “Heroes!: Draw Your Own Superheroes, Gadget Geeks & Other Do-Gooders” Blue Line Art had it for 6 bucks!!
12 or so years ago I was the lead singer of the mega group LOWBOT. Enjoy the masterpiece that is The Coat hanger Song!
So back in the day me and my good pal Mike would spend time recording songs on a little four track tape recorder. Basically Mike would spend all the time, I’d just come in and try to sing or in this case make up stories to say over the music. Sometimes I would actually play music. Maybe I’ll share some of the stuff I did all on my own. Maybe I shouldn’t. I’m no James Kochalka that’s for sure.
Click on over to The Simpsons Movie website and create yellow cartoon version of you and your loved ones. It’s super easy and really fun. It’s under the tab at the top called “Create Your Simpsons Avatar.” There are tons of options.
Then run to the theatre because it’s out today!
San Diego Comic-Con is here and I could have gone. My friends at Comics Wanted had an opening in their room but I chickened out. AdHouse Books had a full slate of artists going and I probably couldn’t have gotten a table for myself. When I’m ready, I’ll charter a plane just to bring all the cool stuff back east. Have you seen all the killer things that will be there? No? Well my friend I’ll just make you a little list of 10 things to buy at Comic-Con with total disregard for money and space.
If you need to plan your course you may want to use this interactive map of the show!!!
10 - Jeffrey Brown’s Incredible Change-Bots hardcover
9 - Joel Priddy’s Besswax Bound with special doodle
8 - Jim Rugg’s Street Angel Art
(Then bug him about doing more Street Angel books!)
7 - Amanda Visell’s Ephunt sculpture & print
While you’re there grab her Poping Through Pictures Book from Baby Tattoo
6 - Dave Pressler’s Stupid Little Robot Buddy
5 - AdHouse Books’ Project: Telstar Ultra rare first in the trilogy of project books. If you get there soon enough snag the last copy of Project: Superior also.
4 - Scott Morse’s Scrap Mettle limited edition with watercolor
3 - Some really cool mini-comic with a screen printed cover by someone you’ve never heard of. Extra bonus points if it is from another country.
2 - Andy Runton’s (made by mom) Owly Hat
While you’re there maybe grab one of his tooth rottingly adorable Owly paintings!
1 - Scott Morse’s Tiger Sculpture
My mom sang “going for a ride in the car car” all the time when we were little. I think my dad did also. The lyrics were pretty simple and I always thought she made it up.
Going for a ride in the car car.
Going for a ride in the car car.
Going for a ride in the car car.
Mama’s gonna take you for a ride.
I started singing it while driving around my son and nephews. Of course I changed it up a little and made it more interactive. Naming everyone in the car. Then we started naming things in the car along with feet, hair, fingers and shoes. Moving them about while we sang. It’s been a handy little sing along.
I felt like doing a little family portrait using it thinking it might be a pretty cool children’s book. So I decided to look it up on the ole interwebs to make sure it wasn’t a real song.
Not being a big Folk music guy I’ve never really listend to Woody Guthrie. The guy who sang This Land Is Your Land. It was his song called Riding In My Car. Really cool little song, a minute and a half long, here are the lyrics courtesy of www.woodyguthrie.org.
Riding In My Car
Brrrm brm brm brm brm brm brm, brrrm b’ brrrm,
Brrrm brm brm brm brm brm brrrm b’ brrrm,
Brrrm brm brm brm brm brm brrrm b’ brrrm.
Brrrm brm brm brm brm brm brrrm.Take me riding in the car, car;
Take me riding in the car, car;
Take you riding in the car, car;
I’ll take you riding in my car.Click clack, open up the door, girls;
Click clack, open up the door, boys;
Front door, back door, clickety clack,
Take you riding in my car.Climb, climb, rattle on the front seat;
Spree I spraddle on the backseat;
Turn my key, step on my starter,
Take you riding in my car.Engine it goes boom, boom;
Engine it goes boom, boom;
Front seat, backseat, boys and girls,
Take you riding in my car.Trees and the houses walk along;
Trees and the houses walk along;
Truck and a car and a garbage can,
Take you riding in my car.Ships and the little boats chug along;
Ships and the little boats chug along;
Boom buhbuh boom boom boom buh boom,
Take you riding in my car.I’m a gonna send you home again;
I’m a gonna send you home again;
Boom, boom, buhbuh boom, rolling home,
Take you riding in my car.I’m a gonna let You blow the horn;
I’m a gonna let you blow the horn;
A oorah, a oorah, a oogah, oogah,
I’ll take you riding in my car.
Then I remembered seeing a really great drawing of Woody by Josh Cotter. Click for larger version at his blog. Josh, you need to school me on this guy.
Alright, that’s not totally true. But some computer out there is at fault. Basically I’ve been having a lot of hosting problems with my website. So I switched, new server new company and all sorts of new features. But for some reason my e-mail isn’t working. So I’m sorry if you’re having trouble sending me mail to me@jchriscampbellNOMORESPAM.com.
So if you see my e-mail floating out there, tell him to come home. Because I miss him and I’ll never let that devil computer get ahold of him again. Promise.
Update! Media Temple answered my prayers.
Earlier today I put in a trouble ticket explaining my problems and to my surprise they fixed it within hours! I’m not use to that sort of service from my web hosting companies. So far I’ve loved most everything about my new web host. Who is it? Why I’ll just have to tell you all about it. But first I gots some comicing to do!
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I’ll be at the Atlanta Comics Expo this weekend.
Come on out and say hello.
I like naming my new hardware. Most people just leave the factory name. But I like giving them names. Like they are my pets. My keychain drives are Totem and Gobo, my iPod(RIP) was called Sonic Boom, My PSP is Gomer.
I just got an Iomega external hard drive. 200 gigs of portable space. I named him Giggles. And the little partion on it is called Giglet. Oh what fun I have with the naming of things. Aren’t you glad I shared it with you?
Any suggestions on what sticker I should get to put over the little Iomega logo?
FLUKE was a heck of a lot of fun. I’ll post some pictures soon.
The best thing that I got at the show was this drawing by Andy Runton. I asked him to draw his character Owly as Snuffy and he did it up right. Go check out some of the other “Owly as” drawings that he’s done.
