The first ever print version of Bullfinch is now available via the Th3rdworld studios web store!  The Bullfinch comic is a collection of most of my favorite strips and stories created so far.  It is 28 pages and is black and white interior with a full color cover.  The book will be 5$ and a special artist edition will be priced at 10$ and will include a sketch card done by me.  The sketch cards will be original artwork and not prints. Faaaaaaantastic!

Friday and Saturday I attended the Philadelphia comic-con with the guys from Th3rdworld studios and Shocker Toys. Despite the show being a tad smaller (DC and Marvel went to Hero-Con in Carolina) than usual we still had some good traffic, especially on a rainy Saturday.
I drove down from Syracuse with the world famous comic book writer, and Th3rdworld tent pole, Mike Raicht. Anyone who follows my Twitter feed knows how difficult that can be at times (an Ipod with Asia, and the Kiss disco album?! Really?!). We met up with the CEO of Th3rdworld, Mike Devito, in Philly and set up early on Friday. We shared booth space with the guys from Shocker Toys who are a lot of fun to hang with. I had the print version of Bullfinch on hand as well as the offerings from Th3rdworld, especially the newest volume of Superfogeys featuring the (now fake) death of Doctor Rocket. Most of my days were spent doing sketches and selling people on our various offerings, like The Stuff of Legend which is available next month from Raicht and the fantastic artist Charles Paul Wilson III who was with us on Saturday, as well as his actual pages from the book. His pencils are some of the most fantastic I’ve seen in person and his full color covers up close are unbelievable!
Dawn from the wonderful comic Zorphbert and Fred met me at the con as well. We both grilled Brad Guigar from Evil Inc. about web-comics and printing information. He’s a great guy to talk to about those things, he’s always very open about discussing those things. Unless he’s the greatest actor I’ve ever met.
Friday night after the con was filled with the usual odd moments. A 40 of Coors light, Lou Ferrigno, random stealth bottle attack shattering on the lobby floor, Settlers of Catan, Orioles vs. the Phillies, a band called Saga; you know the usual crap.

Us at the convention! Charles Wilson, Mike Raicht, Keith Dallas, Mike Devito, and TL.

I will be at the Philadelphia comic-con this weekend on Friday and Saturday only.  I am at the Th3rdworld/Shocker Toys booth with Mike Devito and Mike Raicht.  I will be doing sketches for people and with any luck I may have a physical version of Bullfinch comics in my hands!  If the shipping gods will it, then let it be done.

Sunday was the annual AIDSwalk/run here in central New York, which took place at the Beaver Lake Nature center in Baldwinsville. Participants can either walk the trails or run a 10k race as we celebrate our efforts to raise money for a good cause.
This year I was asked to do an appearance featuring my web-comic and do sketches for kids. I was a little taken aback by the offer, but honored, and I accepted immediately! We had a great time at the event and I was able to hand out a lot of sketches of superheroes and prints of Bullfinch comics. We only had 2 hours before the walk/run so the time went by ultra fast and I had to squeeze in some time for stretching, too.
Last year I attended and walked with the majority of people but secretly I wanted to run. So this year I trained a little harder and signed up for the 10k run. It was a blast, I’ve never run in an actual race before and I really enjoyed the competition as well as the crowd cheering (which I never experience running in the dark at 10pm around my house). I placed 43rd out of 150 or so runners, a little disappointing but I was happy with completing the race (and passing a number of younger competitors!).
Overall my team and I raised about 1,000 dollars (not bad for 6 adults and a 10 year old) and the overall take for the charity was over $187,000. Great weather, free food and drinks for the crowd and the runners, and all for a good cause. WIN

In case you didn’t see the write up in Superfogeys this week over at th3rdworld.com, I was recently interviewed over at the villian’s corner which is a great podcast about web-comics and the creator of web-comics.   Great guys to talk to about the origin of Bullfinch and how I began the art gig over at Superfogeys!  We also talked shop about Micron pens and the pros and cons of working manually versus digitally and other ins and outs of the creative side of comics.  It wound up being a lot of fun!  Here is the link :  The Villian’s Corner.

I’m still requesting donations for the AIDSwalk/run coming up in June! Just hit the button and donate to my site. You can even paypal it! Actually the woman who runs the event contacted me about setting up a table at the event and doing sketches and possibly some art lessons for kids. It steamrolled from there and expanded into a three hour gig over at Carousel Mall where I will be doing an appearance with 107.9FM as they do a camp-in inside the mall raising money for the AIDSwalk charity. I don’t know how these things happen, they just do. As long as Bullfinch gets some new readers, I’ve done my job.

Today on the giant comics based website Newsarama is none other than Brock Heasley and his comic Superfogeys!  Head on over and check out his interview as well as the very kind mention of yours truly and our little up and coming web-comic Bullfinch!

I am officially running in this year’s AIDSwalk 10k at beaver lake nature center (yes that’s a real place), here in central New York.  I’m not good at raising money (clearly), but I can cut and paste things into websites!  I walked last year with the family but this is my first year on the fund-raising side.  If anyone is interested just click on this link below.

GRAAAHKALRAHARG.  That’s the sound I’ve been making most of the day.  The sound a cartoonist makes when they don’t get their strip up on time.  Nothing earth shattering happened, just a thousand little things.  A newly acquired car needed to be registered which involved DMV time, and the older car dropped it’s muffler while a family member was on her way to work.  Which meant getting people to school and work and multiple cars to different locations.  With a little help I was able to sort everything out and get some drawing done in the meantime.

I spent the weekend at Chiller Theater in New Jersey which is a Horror convention that Mike Raicht and Th3rdworld we’re attending.  Obviously not a great place to promote my webcomic, so I was there to hang out most of the time.  The Th3rdworld guys have a bunch of horror themed comics and did a great job of selling and promoting them.  I spent time with odd people and fringe celebrities in the meantime and at night we watched bad horror movies and played MarioKart 64 (I won the grand championship, of course).

Tuesday is brand new Superfogeys Origins day over at Th3rdworld, head on over and check it out.  For anyone who doesn’t know about KC’s recent squirrel transformation, he was originally turned into a squirrel by Lance’s Uni-magic in this strip.  It was a punishment for a horse related comment which is a gigantic insult in the world of Unicorns.

Allright, the internet has beaten me once again (the score is like internet:254 TL:0 BTW)  I have signed up for twitter and am raring to go.  Just hit my button or look for bullfinchcomic or any other hundreds of ways to wrangle such info off of the internetterwebs to follow me.  Don’t forget my compatriots and colleagues, Carlisle over at STC, DGriff at Z-F comics and Brock at Superfogeys.

For anyone who doesn’t know I actually do four strips a week on line! Superfogeys: Origins depicts the Superfogeys of today in all of their heroic glory back in the fifties and it goes up every Tuesday.  This week page 6 of the Society of Heroes is live and in color.