Ryan Claytor
(I’m going to do my SPACE recap in random posts throughout the next few days, as well as show art from some of the cool people I met there. Please click on it and visit their websites.)
Since SPACE is now a week-old distant memory, it’s time to wrap up my recap with some tidbits:
• Since I live in a small town without a bookstore, I asked my friend Jenny if there was a cool one we could go to in Columbus. We went to Half Price Books. This is the kind of economic model I like: spend money and get twice as much. (Notice that I didn’t say,” Pick out the books you want and pay half as much.”). Yep, I spent a lot there. Here’s what I got, in no particular order and from memory (since it’s a big heavy bag of books, it’s downstairs and I have a bad back.) Frank Miller’s Ronin, a James Sturm book, couple issues of Mome, Tank Girl, Anthology of Graphic Fiction, a collection of Stan and Jan Berenstain’s non-bear cartoons, a DVD of Flash Gordon movie serials and probably a few things I’ve forgotten
• I proved my unmanliness at dinner when Jenny pointed out that Payton Manning was sitting a couple of tables over. I know the Payton Manning is some sort of football guy, but you could point out any person short of a 12-year-old girl, tell me it is Payton Manning and I’d have to agree. Luckily, Jenny’s boyfriend Chris was the same way. Because of our collective lack of testosterone, Jenny had to call one of her “real man” friends who would appreciate such an occurrence.
Tags: Animation, cartoons, comics, convention, entertainment, Movies, Superhero
April 29, 2009 at 6:54 am
John – no shame in not recognizing an NFL celeb, but you really dissed the guy with the first name misspell. It’s P-E-yton, not P-A-yton. However, there was a famous Walter P-A-yton of the Chicago Bears, but that’s anothe era. I doubt P-E-yton or P-Ayton would have mis-spelled “John”, but there’s always “Jon” … as in Voight-a-leski.
April 29, 2009 at 10:02 am
More proof of my less-than-real-manliness.
May 5, 2009 at 9:14 am
Thanks for the link, John. Great meeting you! Where will you be at San Diego Comic Con International? Small Press? I’m @ K7. (http://www.elephanteater.com/news_pages/2009/050109.html) Hope you can swing by.
May 5, 2009 at 9:52 am
My pleasure, Ryan. Great to meet you too. At Comic Con I’ll be manning the National Cartoonists Society table for part of the time when not walking around amazed/elated/horrified. (It’ll be my first time at Comic Con.) I’ve got a table at SPX and I’ll be at MoCCA in some fashion. Let’s try to meet up.
May 5, 2009 at 11:06 am
Indeed. Well, I should be chained to my table all weekend, so I’ll be easy to find. Have a great time, especially if this is your first go-round. Prepare to be overwhelmed! :)
May 5, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Words will probably escape me.