Conventions
WWTX 06 - The enigmatic Nicc Balce.
WWTX 06 - Here's Ben at Pappasito's.
WWTX 06 - Nicc and I enjoy some tasty beverages at dinner.
WWTX 06 - Josh, Luke, Matt and Jordan at the Viper booth.
WWTX 06 - Pat Bussey looking like he just jacked some Hellboy toys.
WWTX 06 - Pat, Matt and Jordan in front of the Viper booth, hanging out.
WWTX 06 - The cutest Jean Grey and Cyclops EVER!
WWTX 06 - Ben, Tom Kurzanski and Nicc at the Viper booth, mugging.
WWTX 06 - Now Ben, ME and Nicc at the Viper booth.
WWTX 06 - Kristian Donaldson and Ben doing a signing at the Lone Star Comics booth.
WWTX 06 - Cal Slayton before the Bike Gang Live Art Show.
WWTX 06 - Ben and Tom gear up for some live art goodness.
WWTX 06 - Tom tries to practice his mustaches on Ben, who deftly defends himself.
WWTX 06 - Brock and his friend Reagan (I think) at the live art show.
WWTX 06 - Chris Powell getting ready to bid on some awesome art!
WWTX 06 - The men of the night: Cal, Brock, Tom and Ben.
WWTX 06 - Me, Lori and Chris look on in awe of the talented fellows.
WWTX 06 - Nicc, Jim's girlfriend, Laurie, and Jim came by to watch the festivities.
WWTX 06 - The boys get started.
WWTX 06 - The penciling begins.
WWTX 06 - Cal and Brock dig for supplies as Tom and Ben continue to pencil.
WWTX 06 - Ben's piece starting to take shape.
WWTX 06 - Ben doesn't appreciate my sneaking up on him to take his picture.
WWTX 06 - Tom, Cal and Brock start to lay down ink.
WWTX 06 - Tom and Cal working away.
WWTX 06 - Cal and Brock, also working.
WWTX 06 - Brock and Ben doing some art or something.
WWTX 06 - Tom putting detail on his martini lady.
WWTX 06 - Cal adding more ink to his suicide girl.
WWTX 06 - Brock and Ben finishing up.
WWTX 06 - Ben adding more detail to his demon guy.
WWTX 06 - Ben adding some more detail...
WWTX 06 - Brock's finished piece. That's a lot of teeth.
WWTX 06 - Tom working and Cal looking over his piece.
WWTX 06 - Tom's finished piece. Chris went home with this one.
WWTX 06 - The art gets stacked up for bidding.
WWTX 06 - Here's Ben's finished piece. He's got a big heart.
WWTX 06 - More art stacked up for the bidding.
WWTX 06 - Ben's piece gets added to the mix.
WWTX 06 - Tom starting on one of the art jam pieces.
WWTX 06 - Brock adds his touch to the jam piece.
WWTX 06 - Ben grants my wish and starts a jam piece with Blue Demon!
WWTX 06 - The Robot Jam Piece!
WWTX 06 - Brock and Kristian Donaldson working hard.
WWTX 06 - Kristian adding ink to his Yakuza girl.
WWTX 06 - Rogues gallery of massively talented artists.
WWTX 06 - Kristian adds more ink.
WWTX 06 - The artists still hard at work. They're machines!
WWTX 06 - Scott Hinze oversees EVERYTHING.
WWTX 06 - Cal adds his touch to the Blue Demon Mexican Wrestling jam piece.
WWTX 06 - The robot jam gets some color.
WWTX 06 - Kristian starts to add color to his piece.
WWTX 06 - And he adds some more color...
WWTX 06 - Looks like Cal is about done here.
WWTX 06 - The finished piece! This one was my favorite jam piece of the night.
WWTX 06 - Ben starts on an unprecedented THIRD piece!
WWTX 06 - Here's Chris, his wallet a bit lighter, his beer a bit emptier. He won some art.
WWTX 06 - More art for the bidding!
WWTX 06 - David Hopkins mugs while working the tent.
WWTX 06 - Tom's ragdoll piece. I really liked this one too.
WWTX 06 - Brock works on a new piece.
WWTX 06 - Brock adding some background elements.
WWTX 06 - Ben adding ink to his latest piece. Look at the mug on that guy.
WWTX 06 - Here's Brock's finished piece, I'm pretty sure this is a character from Bike Gang.
WWTX 06 - Tom and Cal just keep going...
WWTX 06 - Ben also just won't quit.
WWTX 06 - The lady begins.
WWTX 06 - Cal works on another piece. Naughty or nice?
WWTX 06 - Cal, Ben, Brock and Tom with their robot jam piece.
WWTX 06 - Here's a better picture of the art, but not of the artists.
WWTX 06 - Here's Ben's finished piece. That guy must have money to get a saucy lady like her.
WWTX 06 - David, Tom, Brock, Ben and me after the show. Guess who's been drinking?
WWTX 06 - Here's me with Melody of Earthgirl fame.
WWTX 06 - Nicc, Jim, Tom, Scott, me and Ben behind the Viper table.
WWTX 06 - Now Nicc, Jim, Tom, me, Scott and PJ behind the Viper table.
CAPE 2.5 - It begins. There's Richard setting up.
CAPE 2.5 - Ben and Josh Boulet gear up for the drawathon.
CAPE 2.5 - Two of the most talented dudes in the room.
CAPE 2.5 - I don't know who let David Hopkins in...
CAPE 2.5 - This torso turned out really good! There's more later!
CAPE 2.5 - The crowd starts to gather.
CAPE 2.5 - I don't know what happened here. But that WAS Jabba the Hutt.
CAPE 2.5 - More of the crowd with some artwork in the back.
CAPE 2.5 - Brock Rizy is ALL the way on the left, but I was too far away.
CAPE 2.5 - There's a semi-nice shot of the Crow by James O'Barr.
CAPE 2.5 - Cal Slayton talking with another artist who I met and lost his card!
CAPE 2.5 - The lady of the hour, Lea Hernandez and her daughter.
CAPE 2.5 - The Metro Grill Crew: Josh, Randy, Norma, Ben and me.
CAPE 2.5 - This picture brought to you by the letter B for BEER.
CAPE 2.5 - Melissa Hopkins tries to get Adan's attention.
CAPE 2.5 - Brock working his mojo.
CAPE 2.5 - Khalid also works his mojo.
CAPE 2.5 - Some finished art gets the showcard treatment from Stefan.
CAPE 2.5 - The artists were really getting started now!
CAPE 2.5 - You can kind of see Brock's finished piece...
CAPE 2.5 - Ben getting ready to step up to the plate.
CAPE 2.5 - Ben simply CANNOT work in these conditions, so Stefan is finding out.
CAPE 2.5 - Ben and Brock share some pointers or an inside joke about Ghostbusters?
CAPE 2.5 - Possibly more pointers sharing?
CAPE 2.5 - This piece also turned out great, more of it later!
CAPE 2.5 - Ben really getting ready to start now.
CAPE 2.5 - The first lines hit the board.
CAPE 2.5 - Sam the Super Fan captures his own picture of Ben's art.
CAPE 2.5 - More of Ben drawing.
CAPE 2.5 - The Spider-Man torso starting to take shape.
CAPE 2.5 - Alice's head comes together.
CAPE 2.5 - Lea's contribution, and it was SO great!
CAPE 2.5 - More of the Eagle.
CAPE 2.5 - Close up of Ben drawing. Yeah we took tons of pics of him.
CAPE 2.5 - More Ben.
CAPE 2.5 - And some more Ben.
CAPE 2.5 - I wish I knew this man's name. He was great.
CAPE 2.5 - Yup, Ben still working on Alice.
CAPE 2.5 - The Alice drawing starting to unfold.
CAPE 2.5 - Lea's daughter did this one. Too rad!
CAPE 2.5 - The-Evil-Dead-Jabberwock-type-demon-thing starts to appear.
CAPE 2.5 - I've only had about 10 White Russians at this point, I think.
CAPE 2.5 - More Demon guy.
CAPE 2.5 - Close up of Demon guy.
CAPE 2.5 - Josh hung out with us while Ben did his thing.
CAPE 2.5 - Norma, Randy and PJ in the background, hanging out.
CAPE 2.5 - I'm not actually drunk here, I just shut my eyes... really.
CAPE 2.5 - This one's much better.
CAPE 2.5 - It's really coming along now.
CAPE 2.5 - Here's Cal doing a totally rad demon type guy (?)
CAPE 2.5 - This was another awesome piece!
CAPE 2.5 - Scott Kurtz makes his debut for the evening.
CAPE 2.5 - More of Cal's piece.
CAPE 2.5 - This was the coolest illustration, too bad you can't see it!
CAPE 2.5 - Ben's working on the Cheshire Cat's grin now.
CAPE 2.5 - The finished piece!
CAPE 2.5 - Here's a better angle.
CAPE 2.5 - Josh gets ready to throw down some paint.
CAPE 2.5 - This was VERY interesting to watch unfold.
CAPE 2.5 - Josh goes old skool with some Optimus Prime.
CAPE 2.5 - Scott's finished piece.
CAPE 2.5 - Optimus' head comes alive.
CAPE 2.5 - Nice James O'Barr piece. I saw this one get purchased!
CAPE 2.5 - More artists contribute.
CAPE 2.5 - Josh working his magic.
CAPE 2.5 - More of Josh at work. We had prime seats.
CAPE 2.5 - More of the torso.
CAPE 2.5 - Some more art.
CAPE 2.5 - The finished eagle! And Josh's noggin.
CAPE 2.5 - D-Town Roll Out.
CAPE 2.5 - Josh adding the finishing touches.
CAPE 2.5 - Hard at work.
CAPE 2.5 - So awesome. Stefan played the role of "showcaser" all night.
CAPE 2.5 - The Spider-Man torso is coming along great.
CAPE 2.5 - Ben, Josh and me. The boys did good.
CAPE 2.5 - Ok, here's me at White Russian #44. You can call me Gums McGee.
CAPE 2.5 - Another great piece by Brock.
CAPE 2.5 - Randy mugs for Norma (she took most of these pictures).
CAPE 2.5 - Norma and Randy, this was their first live art show!
CAPE 2.5 - Curly hair makes women koo koo.
CAPE 2.5 - The finished torso. Cool!
CAPE 2.5 - Another James O'Barr piece, done in chalk!
CAPE 2.5 - Brock is the man. I'm sad that I was so far away when he was working.
CAPE 2006 - Here's Ben hard at work on a Friends of Lulu sketch.
CAPE 2006 - This is Ben's finished Friends of Lulu sketch that he donated.
CAPE 2006 - David Hopkins posing for a comic themed phoon.
CAPE 2006 - Brock Rizy throwing down some sketching.
CAPE 2006 - PJ Kryfko of Viper Comics lovingly managing the Viper table.
CAPE 2006 - Double dose of Josh: Josh Boulet and Josh Howard, seemingly having a good time.
CAPE 2006 - Funimation's Adam Sheehan. He owes me dinner.
CAPE 2006 - Laura Howard posing with Nacho Libre (Jack Black's stand-in maybe???)
CAPE 2006 - Melissa Hopkins working the convention, Roller Derby Style.
CAPE 2006 - Ronée Garcia Bourgeois working the Friends of Lulu table. She's awesome.
CAPE 2006 - Here's Andy Lee working his magic. His table was next to us and I was awed by his work all day.
CAPE 2006 - And then it started raining...
CAPE 2006 - Here's Ben trying to finish up a sketch for a customer before the rain really came down.
CAPE 2006 - Ben did this sketch in an art swap with Brock.
CAPE 2006 - Here's the sketch that Ben received from Brock in return. So rad.
CAPE 2006 - This is the Ben & Marlena sketch for the self portrait art jam.
CAPE 2006 - After a long day of nerdery, we took a break at Chuy's in Dallas. Hail to the King, baby.
CAPE 2006 - Even the King gets teary eyed over fantabulous Mexican food and an end to CAPE 2.
Staple 2006 - me, Ben and Josh.
Staple 2006 - Team Viper working the Booth.
Staple 2006 - Ben and Josh.
Staple 2006 - Extreme closeup of Ben.
Staple 2006 - P.J. and Josh serious.
Staple 2006 - P.J. and Josh, not so serious.
Staple 2006 - Ben mugging at Staple.
Staple 2006 - Me with P.J. lurking in the background representing for Arkham Designs.
Staple 2006 - Random Nerd respresenting Arkham Designs.
Staple 2006 - Rafael Navarro signing my Sonambulo graphic Novel.
Staple 2006 - Thomas P. Reidy III showing the love.
Staple 2006 - Thomas' lovely wife, Niki looking at something more interesting than me.
Staple 2006 - Melly "Miss Monster" before costume.
Staple 2006 - Melly and Zach showing props.
Staple 2006 - Melly in full costume giving me "the" finger.
Staple 2006 - Melly in costume, don't call her "Kitty".
Staple 2006 - Greg Thompson of Hero Camp fame.
Staple 2006 - Brock "BEEow" Rizy.
Staple 2006 - Brock looking comtemplative.
Staple 2006 - My awesome robot drawing, courtesy of Brock (I owe him cookies now).
San Diego Comic Con 2005.
SDCC 2005 - Me with my professional badge.
SDCC 2005 - Lori and I with some Ugly Dolls.
SDCC 2005 - Me with my good friend Snoopy.
SDCC 2005 - That's me with my sissypoo!
SDCC 2005 - Random nerd shot.
SDCC 2005 - My sissypoo with her "professional" badge.
SDCC 2005 - Chris waving to his royal subjects.
SDCC 2005 - Viper Booth, Karma signings.
SDCC 2005 - More Viper Booth, Karma signing.
SDCC 2005 - Again with the Viper Booth Karma signing.
SDCC 2005 - You guessed it, Karma signing at the Viper Booth.
SDCC 2005 - Viper Booth.
SDCC 2005 - Josh and Ben signing at the Viper Booth.
SDCC 2005 - Me with Kroenen from Hellboy.
SDCC 2005 - Me hamming it up in front of the Corpse Bride set.
SDCC 2005 - Random Nerd pic in beautiful San Diego.
SDCC 2005 - Ben getting his drink on.
SDCC 2005 - Viper crew hanging out at the hotel.
SDCC 2005 - Josh and Jim.
SDCC 2005 - Me, a little tipsy, with P.J. looking on in horror.
marlena's empty lunchbox