Had a great time at Dragon*Con this year. Although we didn’t stay down there this year and experience our usual 3 days, we had a blast. While I wanted to see the visiting Whedonverse folks, we made this year’s trip short and sweet. We went down on Sunday and spent the day sifting through the dealer rooms for goodies. I found some old Universal Monster movie posters and my son snatched up some Living Dead Dolls. Waaaay cool.
When we registered, we chose how our names would read on our badges. We went with a Stephen King motif. My son’s read “It the Clown” and mine read “Beep-Beep Ritchie”. Both are from King’s “It”.
We did manage to visit the Browncoats, which is a tradition for us each year. My son has gotten to “that age” where he doesn’t want me snapping pictures of him every few minutes. I did manage to get his pic with the Joker and Harley! After all, who could say “no” to good ol’ Mr. J? I also got his pic with a few characters from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. We had a great time, as usual, and are already planning to be there for the whole weekend again next year.
I have finally gotten around to redesigning my personal and company business cards! Its about bloody time. With all I have gone through in the past two years, I just realized that all of the information on my cards was far from up-to-date. So this past week, I designed two smokin’ new cards… one for my design firm, WickedINK Creative, and the other for my art and illustration. I’m thrilled about the way they have turned out, so here they are hot off the press.
The first card is for my illustration work. The front has a montage of various comic story art that I have drawn and my signature slightly above my name. The back has more art ghosted out on top of the dark background color. I placed my signature on the back as a design element.
The second card is for WickedINK. The card features my new logo and is themed to match my new website, which is in production and almost complete. The back of the card has my new logo ghosted over a list of all the services my company provides. And of course there are ink blotches all over the card.
Previously, I had been using my company card for everything, including my illustration career. It began causing confusion when an illustration client or art buyer would ask for my card (which was focused on web design/print/branding). This new design will save me 15 minutes of explanations with every art buyer I meet. I also needed to update some of the services my company offers, as we are now offering social media marketing and coaching. It’s been a busy month around the studio!
I got a chance to “sneak up” on the King in Easley, SC today. Bret and I were cruising down the road and saw a guy in what had to be the worst Burger King costume ever. Check out the eyes!! So in typical Bret fashion, he dared me to pull over to the side of the road and snag a photo op with the King. I got “the drop on him” outside of Burger King in Easley on HWY 123 and Bret snapped this photo.
I can’t believe it! After all the phone calls, the headaches, and a few calls to Batman and Sherlock Holmes, my Wii has made it safely home. It feels like Christmas in July around the ol’ Watson house. We haven’t even finished opening all of Bret’s Wii games that he got under the tree last year. He and I have played Mario Super Sluggers (which is great!), Guiness World Records, and more.
Partly in honor of our Wii’s homecoming, partly out of wanting to “pound” UPS for there bumbling ways, but mostly out of a selfish need to relive my childhood… I bought Punch-Out for the Wii. I can’t even imagine how many hours I wasted on this game as a child. Now, completely revisited for modern times, my son can get as frustrated as I was while trying to find the “secret tricks” to defeating these characters.
We put this game into our freshly repaired and returned Wii together and it was like I was a kid again. Yes, all of my old adversaries were there! Glass Joe, King Hippo, Soda Popinski, Bald Bull, and more were on hand to challenge my child as they had challenged me. Between each bout, Doc had his cryptic “words of wisdom” on how to beat each opponent. Of course they were faithfully mixed in amongst his announcing his love of chocolate and begging us to join the “Nintendo Fun… er, um… Club Nintendo”.
It is fun to watch Bret get so exasperated trying to figure out the “special trick” needed to beat each new contender. Just like Dad. Then I get to come in and finally show him a thing or two about how its done… Old school. Punch-Out is a welcome addition to our game library. It really is like an old friend coming to visit after many years. And best of all, after game after game of Bret humiliating me in Mario Super Sluggers, I can throw this game in and get some small measure of revenge.
Had a great time at Dragon*Con this year. Although we didn’t stay down there this year and experience our usual 3 days, we had a blast. While I wanted to see the visiting Whedonverse folks, we made this year’s trip short and sweet. We went down on Sunday and spent the day sifting through the dealer rooms for goodies. I found some old Universal Monster movie posters and my son snatched up some Living Dead Dolls. Waaaay cool.
I can’t believe it! After all the phone calls, the headaches, and a few calls to Batman and Sherlock Holmes, my Wii has made it safely home. It feels like Christmas in July around the ol’ Watson house. We haven’t even finished opening all of Bret’s Wii games that he got under the tree last year. He and I have played Mario Super Sluggers (which is great!), Guiness World Records, and more.
We put this game into our freshly repaired and returned Wii together and it was like I was a kid again. Yes, all of my old adversaries were there! Glass Joe, King Hippo, Soda Popinski, Bald Bull, and more were on hand to challenge my child as they had challenged me. Between each bout, Doc had his cryptic “words of wisdom” on how to beat each opponent. Of course they were faithfully mixed in amongst his announcing his love of chocolate and begging us to join the “Nintendo Fun… er, um… Club Nintendo”.
