UPDATES:
I will have the website's store up and running in a couple days.
I'm in the process of looking for a printer to give me a good quote on my hardcover artbook. if anyone knows any places... i'd be grateful.

Anime Boston went really well... as far as sales. Mike sold all of his masks.
The con itself had some major flaws. But, after talking to AB Staff about it, i can understand why.
AB2008 is now affectionately referred to as LineCon08. Due to being screwed over by the Marriott at the last minute, AB had to take all registration (at-door and pre-reg) in one room. Imagine 15,000 people all having to go through one room. It was worse than bad. Some poor people waited in line for over 10 hours on Saturday. That just ain't right. So, many of the con-goers lost their usual enthusiasm and walked around like Zombies. (Uuuugh.... veeeeendors roooom!!)

I got to hang with my usual webcomic homies: Garth from Comedity [link] Kilika from Blue & Blonde [link], Andi from Easy Skankin [link] , Brian from Hookie Dookie Panic! [link], and a few others. Dave Lister from Paradox Lost [link] i saw for about 5min before he ninja'ed away into the night. I was glued to the table and didn't get to make my usual rounds to all the other awesome artists i know. *sadness*

Ok... STORYTIME!
On Friday, me and Mike didnt have much time for food. So as 11pm rolled around and the artist alley closed, we wanted to go out for some quality foodness. But exhaustion won most of the crew over and the general consensus was "SLEEP". So, no food. Most of the restaurants were closed and i didn't feel like getting changed, so i decided to spend a few bucks on some junk food to tide me over until the next morning. Every hotel has a munchie machine, right? So, i grab a few bucks and find the dispenser on my floor. One problem. Soda and ice. No packaged comestibles. I try the next floor. Soda and ice. Rinse and repeat for another couple floors. Still nada. I get frustrated and go back to the room to ask the front desk where food is found. "The 31st floor, sir." Ok... sounds easy enough. IF THE ELEVATORS WENT THERE! Ooooh no, the elevators operated on a practically random system where certain floors just got "cut" out of it's operation. After about 20min of lift-hopping i find the snack vendor... all but empty with the exception of Animal Crackers, Trail Mix, a single Snickers, and an OPEN bag of Snackwells cookies. If that wasn't enough IT WOULDNT TAKE DOLLAR BILLS!!! So, i did what any sensible guy would do: Bash his head against the vending machine loudly. Thankfully, some con-goers heard my attempt to communicate with the snack machine via noggin-whacks, and offered to make me some change. I hugged the both of them and decided on the Animal Crackers (cause there was more of em.) I took the stars down to my room cause the elevators suck. I opened the door and started to tell Mikey my story of the Cookie Quest... aaand he was passed out already. So, i ate my cookies in silence while watching Adult Swim with subtitles on. It wasn't until i looked out my window from the 12th floor to see a 24hr Shaw's Supermarket... across the street. Dammit...

~jon~

p.s. i'm looking for someone to take over and/or help with the website. Or re-do it. i really dont have time to mess with anymore, and i'm terrible at it.