Well just got back from seeing "Confessions of a City" at the Crucible, certainly an interesting but very nicely done performance, albeit one I nearly missed seeing as the amount of tickets where smaller than planned (only 80 a performance) but due to a literal last minute cancellation I got to see it,

was a play designed to show off the Crucible theatre now it's been redone and is based on true stories from people who lived in Sheffield, taking place in 5 different parts of the theatre including the toilets, the restaurant, backstage, under the stage and finally on-stage with actors doing the scenes around you, seeing a friend of mine make his entrance via the fireplace next to the sofa I was sat on was one of the more interesting bits,

shame it's only on tomorrow as well but given the demanding nature and the 3 performances a day I can understand it, but it was well worth seeing,

In other news tomorrow I get to look at a possible house looking for someone to move into the attic room, heres hoping it goes well,

 Well this friday I'm off to London for another part of the monthlong endurance run of stuff that is October.
the weekend will consist of seeing The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre, a day and a half selling comics at the London MCM and then sunday making it back to sheffield to see Eddie Izzard at the arena, 
should be good material for the mini-book of convention journals I'm working on, just hope insomnia doesn't strike like Birmingham,
wish me luck

Well the Con is over, and despite the night before the con (getting an early night to get up for an early train) involving insomnia, vomiting, hallucinations and possible food poisoning (don't ask) I managed to make it to the con where things went pretty well, not as many problems or weird stuff as usual (but still enough to tell stories), and even though the last of them happened literally in the last minute as a result of me shilling like mad, I made my 50 sales.

I also got a pair of sketches of the heroine of 'My Name is Chipmunk' by a pair of artists (images below the cut) which was nice, so my thanks to Philip Jackson & Jimmy Bott for those, anyway con is over so now sleep beckons 


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Well this weekend will involve the birmingham international comic show where the first 2 issues of 'My Name is Chipmunk' will be on sale (issue 3 sadly four pages from completion) and the current goal is to sell 50 copies over the weekend, wish me luck.
PS anyone have stuff they want me to look out for?

well that's annoying,
an anime convention I knew was on this month and was trying to learn the date of I learned to be tomorrow, meaning I've had to very quickly book a half day at work, find train times to leicester and cancel a trip to the cinema for friday night, but on the plus side I may be able to sell a few copies of the comic and do some networking, we'll see,
just hope this doesn't go as oddly as some of my convention experiences

Tomorrow at 8:30 the showroom is showing Ip Man, a well reviewed kungfu movie starring Donnie Yen, I'll be going to see this, anyone else fancy seeing it?

just in case anyone is interested, the outdoor performance of The Taming of the Shrew will be taking place on wednesday 8th of July on the Dore village green starting at 7:30pm, don't worry I'm not in this so you can spare yourself my acting, it's free to watch so if you can make it come along, the number 30 bus takes you pretty near

Well that's a relief,
What with the spain trip yielding less writing than planned it seems I'm actually a little ahead of my goal of writing the equivalent of twelve 24-page comics by the end of the year, it seems finishing off a 36-pager having gotten back along with the 8-pager I did while in spain (the one I was still finishing on the flight back to England) has put me nearly onto 7 out of 12, which is nice, will have to try and get another 8-pager done before the end of the month to nudge it all the way before July, then I can try and do the comic I was supposed to write in Spain without fear of rushing, after that comes the fun part of deciding which of the next bunch of unfinished works to try and do next, joy of joys.

Some of you may recall me mentioning that a figurine of the heroine of 'My Name is Chipmunk' was being made by a mate of mine in the states? The condition being that in exchange he would get free copies of the comic and he could enter it in the 'Wonderfest' model contest.

well out of the 501 entries he may not have won first prize but:




I'd say thats nothing to be sniffed at, don't you?

 well the bristol con was pretty entertaining and profitable apart from a few minor hiccups (and one upchuck)
the experience was fun and I got to meet some good folk, 
but most importantly I had a bloody good sales run, 
36 comics during the day and have only just finished sorting the takings with the profit being between 82-99 quid depending on if you count the takings from the non-con sales I collected the same day, 
not too shabby I think,