Blessing Of The Cars

 An annual LA event at Hansen Dam Park that is getting bigger each year.  Bring your pre-’68 vehicle along and get it blessed by a real live priest…

Grandpa Munster’s rod — the original Dragula by George Barris

This old school scooter caught my eye

Blessed are the cars…

Encounter

Last week was a dinner organized by Lili at the iconic ‘Encounter’ restaurant at LAX.  This place will always be a tantalizing glimpse of a future that was promised, but never happened…

So this year’s San Diego Comic-Con  was super short and sweet for me. And I went straight to my favorite areas (Art Toy section, “Artists’ Alley” & bookstores ) instead of walking through the entire floor of 5000+ booths. With the trains running late all weekend, and the extra millions of people pushing and shoving through the convention center in the stifling heat….  I am so glad to be home!

As always, it was fun to catch up with people I haven’t seen in ages and to make new contacts and put faces to names. Thank you to everyone who showed up at the Mimoco booth for the Ginchy postcard signing on Saturday. (Sorry  if I seemed distracted and cranky… I blame Amtrak!!!!! ) The Ginchy series mimobots will be launched in October.

I wanted to travel light this year, so my purchases were limited to posters, prints and magazines. Here are some favorites:

Hi Fructose (special Mark Ryden & Viewmaster edition) and Animation Blast #9 .(So bummed that I missed out on Amid’s Cartoon Modern book @ Chronicle)

(Wes: “A perfect portrait of my anxiety”)

I also stopped by the Wacom booth and learnt how to customize the “express buttons” on my Wacom Cintiq. Now I can put that keyboard aside, and quickly toggle between the drawing tools in Flash (selection, brush, zoom in and out, ctrl G, ctrl Z etc) on the Cintiq monitor itself! Very cool indeed. No more left arm-reaching-for-the-keyboard strain.