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August meetup recap with jam!!!

Whooweee! This past meetup (August 17th) was EPIC! We had a great many people show up, and it was crazy long and really fun! We also had to bid farewell to our much loved Miriam Gibson, who is being whisked away to Nova Scotia by her boyfriend, BluJay. We will all miss you while you guys join the cool indie scene in the frozen north! Enjoy the free health care!

Attendees this time around included yours truly, Ami (also a NERD), Miriam Gibson and Andrea Tsurumi of Tapir Tooth, Caldwell Tanner of Loldwell, Brian Lam of BLAM works, Steve Wilson, Marvin Nardo of Metafus, Caroline Martin, Ray Yuen, Jen of Run Lil’ Jared, Brian Ronaghan, and Daniel John Strauss.

With the intros aside, we got into some crazy jam comics…

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After plenty of drinking, I started noticing people randomly drawing pictures of (seemingly) me… for some unknown reason. So, after prodding, the drawings started to include EVERYONE! Even a fuzzy whale!

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August 22, 2010 at 4:34 pm | Uncategorized, drinking | 1 comment

Otakon, yes we went!

I think it’s safe to say that Bree and I were both surprised (in a good way) to the reception we got at our first anime convention, Otakon! We were kind of fearing for the worse, having only heard tell of previous disorganized years but for the most part (save for the random kitchen fire) things went smoothly for us at the artist’s alley. We debuted two new shirts, a whiskey-themed one for Bree and my own very first shirt, which will both be up in our shop soon. Shirts and books got a good reception from the crowd and we got to meet a bunch of our fans – always good to hear from/get hugs from you guys!

It also wouldn’t be a NERD comics-attended convention if there wasn’t copious amounts of drinking. I mean, copious amounts of hanging out with our awesome webcomic friends! …And drinking. On the first night we hung out with a huge crowd of the usuals including Onezumi and Harknell, at Otakon to spread the word about Intervention; Dern, who recently became a father but still made it out to Otakon every day; and Prindiville who doesn’t do Hello With Cheese anymore, but keeps on drawing! We also shared our room with the always fun Ross and several other people, so much of the revelry was continued into the night (probably to Ross’s chagrin).

On Saturday we woke up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and went in for a good show. But due to aforementioned kitchen fire, we were forced to evacuate to the nearest tavern for a couple of hours until things cooled down. Our awesome table neighbors from Turtle VS. Bunny and Joe Loves Crappy Movies helped us out and spotted our table (until they were presumably forced to evacuate as well. Totally not forgetting our cash-box at the pub, we headed back after lunch to complete the day’s work at the alley. Back inside, we chatted with our Super Art Fight friends, Nick and Marty while the Otakon staff made us sit in front of our tables and wait for the hall to be opened…? Confusion aside, Saturday went semi-decently for the rest of the day. We also briefly met up with James Hatton who was busy with interviews and half-naked girls and the like. Then we hit up Hooters and the Harbor for drinks but were unaware that bars in Baltimore enjoy shouting last call at about 1:15 (despite a 2 closing time)…

Sunday was smooth-sailing until we were misinformed as to the closing time of the Artist Alley and we forced to quickly shut down two hours ahead of schedule. Woops! Overall – a surprisingly fun show in good company! We hope to do it again next year Otakon! Please do check out our shop for updates with the new products we debuted at Otakon soon! And remember, our next cons will be SPX and Intervention, so be sure to see us there!!

August 10, 2010 at 3:18 am | Uncategorized | No comment

Comics and Cocktails August Meetup

Hey guys, we’ve been trying to do these monthly, but it has been one hell of a busy summer!

Anyway, come join us on August 17th at the 12th Street Ale House (12th street and 2nd ave) in NYC. As usual, they’ll have great drink specials and plenty of space for us to draw, drink, and make merry!

We will be bidding a sad farewell to one of our favorite people, Miriam Gibson, who is moving up to the frozen north. So, if you have any last-minute confessions undying love for Miriam, get them in now ( and say hi to her boyfriend while you’re at it ).

We will also hopefully get a preview of some of the DARWIN comics submitted for NERD comics’ first anthology!

See you there!

(email breegeek or auilix at gmail . com for more info!)

August 5, 2010 at 10:20 am | Uncategorized, drinking | No comment

Otakon, yes we’re going

And we will be drunk.

July 22, 2010 at 2:16 am | Uncategorized | No comment

June meetup recap and Jams

Hello cats and kittens! NERD hosted a very successful and fun comics/art meetup last night, and thanks to all that made it! Ami and Bree were joined by artists and writers: Miriam Gibson, BluJay, Andrea Tsurumi, Brian Lam, Brian Ronaghan, Caldwell Tanner, and Dan. It was a crazy night of drinking, discussing, and drawing comics. Check out the madness generated as we played draw-a-panel-pass-it-on with these talented, inebriated folks!

June 29, 2010 at 1:09 pm | Uncategorized, drinking | No comment

June meetup!

Hello cats and kittens! We missed the meeting for May because we were pretty busy in NERD land, but be advised: JUNE 28 we will have another little gathering of panelpheliacs!

In addition, I would like to let everyone know that the table applications for the very first ever Intervention Con are drawing near. It promises to be a fucking awesome show, since I know the cool cats running things, so I suggest you get yourself over to Intervention and be counted!

Monday, June 28th
6-10PM (may go on longer)
12th Street Ale House (at 12th street and 2nd ave)
New York City

email bree if you have questions!

June 18, 2010 at 2:50 pm | Uncategorized, drinking | No comment

April Comics Meetup Flow Comic

Hey, our last meeting was a lot of fun, even if the nice weather kept many people enjoying the outdoors and not drawing in a bar. Here’s what happens when Miriam Gibson, H.Caldwell Tanner, Claire Samuels, and Bree did while drinking:

Come join us in May (date TBD) to join in on the drunken madness!

Thanks to Caldwell for scanning this thing in!

April 23, 2010 at 10:46 pm | Uncategorized, drinking | No comment

MoCCA Hangover (rewrite)

Hi: we got hacked, as you might have noticed, and we lost my extensive (and I hate writing) recap of MoCCA. I will attempt, a week later, to remember what I wrote and reach out to all the fantastic people we met during the festival. If anyone was left out from the original post, I must be reminded, because we had a party since MoCCA and everything in my apartment got shifted around. I was so happy to get our sites back up and to finally get to finish my shout-outs from one of the coolest festivals around! —Bree

We started the festivities at Hope Larson’s Drink and Draw like a Lady. It was great to run into amazing comic artist Val Freire, who has some exciting stuff slated for Free Comics Day!  There were a great many new gals to make friends with, as well. We met Kelly Thompson who does CBR’s “She Has No Head!” column. She gave us hand-drawn business cards—Ami got a cute little Lucy Van Pelt illustration, and Bree got a lovely illustration of Sandman’s Death. We also met her pal, Tara O’Connor, who does lovely, very human comics and art.
Diana Mallery (links?!?) gave us each a very neat comic called Singularity, which was an awesome story about physics turning on its head and bagels. Jenn of Run Lil’ Jared gave Ami a new comic called Mimolette Bakery (that had beautiful colored pencil art!). And we were given Soda Pop Comics‘ very cute mini minis; one about a loserly vampire and the other about a lonely astronaut. Thanks go to Hope and Lucy Knisley for making the event happen!

At MoCCA proper, we had our first really professional-looking table set up. We had our usual books and shirts and such, and were happy to share space with Claire Samuels, a good friend and amazing artist. She was debuting her book, “The Last Artist on Earth”, which was not only an awesome post-apocalyptic story about the importance of your art supplies, but a comic done in only 24 hours! I think we did a great job and are really coming into a better sense of how to pull these things off.
It was great to run into friends at the best comics festival in NYC. It was fantastic that one of my favorite comic-ers ever, Christiann of Sticky Comics, did her first table appearance at a show (which we had been bugging her to do for ages, cus she’s awesome). She was also there with her sister, who is equally humorous and would like to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
We also got to see fellow New York comic group, Tapir Tooth, who are seriously cool cats. I picked up a copy of their Google Doppelganger book, a collaborative piece on everyone’s guilty pleasure. We also got a mini from Tapir’s Miriam Gibson of her Centaur-a-Day blog. It inspired us to draw our own mythical beasts while sitting around on Sunday.
We also got to chill a bit with the awesomesocks Gary of Fleen, the Ted Coppel of webcomics. We saw again the funny guy H. Caldwell Tanner and  Maxwell Wong creator Paul Wei even dropped by!

All of the NERDs made some great connections and picked up some cool books, so here are some of our respective hauls (please excuse any redundancies):

Bree- I don’t know where to begin with all the cool stuff I picked up!

One of the cool cats that we met was Max Ink, who dropped by our table to give us this nice slice-of-life book called Blink FYI IDK, which he was kind enough to sign. We even got to draw in his sketch book! We were also nicely given Blue Okoye issue #1, which contains both prose and poetry and a turbaned guy kicking someone in the face (but, sadly, no URL). Next to our table sat the printmaker-turned-comic-bookers Icreamlandia. They were selling these artisinal, truly crafted books, of which I had to get Hunt-and-Peck.
While I was walking around a bit, I was attracted to Caitlin Cass’s beautifully done minis, picking up Phosphenes (those weird flashes in your eye that you see as you poke at it) as well as Sum of the Parts. She is a clearly well-read gal with great introspective aut0-bio comics in addition to her Great Moments in Western Civilization comics.
I stopped by Philadelphia artist Box Brown‘s table and got “Everything Dies”, which is an interesting and often humorous look at life, masturbation and religion. Somewhere else I also found myself picking something up because of its creepy cover called The Worst Kind of People. I also bought a copy of Monsters and Condiments, which is a very humorous series of illustrations on how to sauce your monsters.
As a devout Bowie fan, I had to get “The Side Effects of the Cocaine” by Sean Collins and Isaac Moylan when I saw it.
My friend Katy introduced me to one of her friends from life in Japan, Betsey Swardlick, who is one of Team Werewolf. Because I had already been oggling it from a distance, I bought a copy of Werewolf!, a collaborative work and got Betsey to sign it for me. It’s a really fun read, the cover glows in the dark, and you should check it out!

A wonderful find was the brother-and-sister team of Peter and Maria Hoey, who do amazingly beautiful vintage art and comics. I bought their title Coin-Op #1, about crime and pigeons, but I will have to get more of their works, for sure. Seriously gorgeous, colorful, retro stuff, so please check them out!
One of my final stops at the festival was by the table of Alisa Harris, whose books Counter-Attack! I love (cus they’re about crazy cats). It turns out she is going to be doing a vegetarian web comic very soon, and while not much is up there yet, I can’t wait till it starts.

Ami - On Sunday I bought most of my goods. I picked up Hope Larson’s latest book, Mercury which is, so far, excellent, I love Hope’s flowy art style. I also had brought Flight 4 (my favorite of the Flight books) with me and got Raina Telegmeir, Dave Roman, and Scott C to sign it! Thanks for obliging everyone! While I was at the Double Fine table, I pestered Scott C (he’s a very friendly guy!), gave him a mini, and bought a beautiful print that I’m saving for the new apartment. I also picked up some nice prints in a trade with our friends at the Tapir Tooth table… Then I traded with Miriam Gibson for a hilarious mini from her Centaur-A-Day blog!
Continuing trading a few tables down, I traded my mini for Neil Brideau’s Trugglemat mini. It was well put together, and I love that heavily crosshatched inky look! Thanks! I also traded with Alisa Harris for an adorable mini called Counter Attack! She tells me she’s working on an upcoming webcomic that sounds very exciting called Cooking up Comics. It’s a vegetarian webcomic and, being a vegetarian myself, am really looking forward to this one! While I was in that area, I also checked out Megan Baehr’s amazing dolls. They’re pricey but so detailed and very gorgeous. One day, one day! Heading back to my table I picked up David McGuire’s beautiful first Gastrophobia book, The 12 Labours of Gastrophobia. He drew a cute black widow spider inside! At the same table, I traded Tina Pratt for her latest issue of The Paul Reveres and bought 1 & 2 so I can force my friends to read it. I also picked up Willie’s bandana, which is stylish and totally matched my outfit that day. Lastly I traded for a comic by Max Ink called Blink FYI IDK. We also drew his own characters in his sketchbook! That’s a good idea…

April 20, 2010 at 2:00 am | New York, Uncategorized, appearances, convention | No comment

*cough* We’re back! (sorta)

Yeah, so we got hacked and things were pretty scary for a bit there. Our wonderful host, linksky, worked with bree for like 10 hours to bring things back to life. We lost all the stuff I wrote Wednesday about MoCCA, the GU and MSWI updates, and the Dingle revival…but that’s a small price to pay in the face of nearly losing everything we’ve had over the years…

Please be patient, friends. It was a pretty violent attack. I hope no one thinks we forgot them for the shout-out; I will try to repost all those fab links soon!

April 16, 2010 at 3:10 am | Uncategorized | No comment

COMICS LOVE COCKTAILS

Come to our fun times!

Thursday, April 22nd
6:30 till whenever
12th street Ale House (12th and 2nd Ave NYC)

April 12, 2010 at 4:26 pm | Uncategorized | No comment

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