post NYCC pre Detroit Fanfare (con sketch spoiler)

New York was amazing!  Met up with a bunch of friends, had some great food and made a few more fans (I hope).  This show I took on too many sketches, I'm still trying to finish them up.  I do have a bunch finished and I will share a couple now and then post the rest after I finish them up.  I will also be taking more sketches for the Detroit show.  So sometime next week expect a big art blog.  I was going to say dump but I thought I'd keep it classy.  Okay, so for some of you that are expecting sketches you might see it here, so- spoilers.

The Detroit Fanfare show is being held in Dearborn MI this year, so it's even closer to home.  Here's the website. 

Getting back to books that helped mold me into the artist I am now, I recommend Jack Prelutsky's Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep, illustrated by Arnold Lobel.  This was one of my favorite books in the Fletcher Elementary library.  I would check this book out whenever I could find it on the shelves.  I loved it! 

It was pretty much this book, the Garden of Abdul Asazi, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick and Jumanji.  Nightmares was my absolute favorite though, and I drew and redrew all the illustrations inside.  I even did a reading of The Dance of the Thirteen Skeletons for a 2nd grade class when I was in the 6th grade.  I was horrible, my stage fright didn't slacken even in front of a bunch of 8 year olds (that's right, right? 2nd grade-8 yrs).  I read a couple of the poems to Emily last night and I think a couple of puzzle pieces fell into place for her in regards to the fabric of my being.  :)

I had completely forgot about it for years and then I remembered the title of the piece I did for that classroom and so I googled it and found it online.  I finally broke down and bought a copy off of Amazon and it arrived yesterday.  Every turn of the page brought me back to elementary school and how I loved each illustration and the creepy poems that went with them.  While browsing online I discovered the duo of Prelutsky and Lobel had done a sequel The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep.  I will be getting that one shortly.  If you are a fan of Edward Gorey you will like these. 

New York Comic Con 2012

Well, it's Oct. 3rd and there are 8 days left until the NYCC of 2012.  Last year I attended the show mainly for the panel Kickstarter was putting on so I only stayed a couple of days and was not set up in artist alley.  This year I will be set up there in artist alley sharing a table with a friend.  I will tell you more later as I am not sure I should do it now.  I have just opened my con sketch list on twitter and facebook so I'm looking forward to getting a bunch of sketches done before the show.  Something I did for the Baltimore show and I really felt accomplished and able to relax post con.  If you are interested in a con sketch you can email me at talpasouk@hotmail.com, they are $100 a sketch and spots are limited.  Here are a couple of the ones I had left over from the Baltimore show. 

And maybe one day blogger.com will make it possible for me to arrange thumbnails in such an easy way as to not make me want to punch the computer screen.  :p

But anyway... This time I want to take more pre show commissions and then maybe one a day at the show.  At least that's the idea.  I am looking forward to the show although I do have some bad news.  There will not be copies of the Archaia hard cover version of CPG vol. one available.  There has been a slight delay in the production of the books at the printer.  I've been told we might not even be able to get them in stores before Christmas.  I guess this is just how it goes with every aspect of Cursed Pirate Girl... sloooooowwly.  Nothing new with that, am I right?  :)  Archaia is printing up a special print they will have there at the show, so I will have something to sign.  And I think I'm on a panel, similar to the world building panel I was on in Chicago.  So look for the Archaia booth for signing times and their panel schedule in the program book.  Or hunt me down in artist alley.

Also, the artist alley will not be in it's regular spot.  If you haven't gone to the NYCC website which is here, you might not know this.  So I downloaded the map of the convention for you.  I'm not quite sure I know where this is but I'll be there come Thurs. night. 

Although this could be easier for people who are just coming in, since the ticket pick up is on the same level, who knows.  WOOOOOO!  Comic Con!