I didn’t draw a darned thing the whole time I was in Ontario, but on the flight home I did get drawing some comics about the show. It was another great year at TCAF, busy and buzzing. Sold lots of stuff, everyone was just happy and excited about the comics. It was great. By the end of the weekend I always just feel like I am floating on a cloud of joy.

Here are some comics and a couple of photos about it. Click to embiggen them, if you find they are too small.

It is still a couple of days away, but my head is already all over TCAF.

So before I forget, there is a new True Loves 3 up, featuring the Return of Dirk!

Okay, here is where you can find me at TCAF May 5 and 6. In a special extremely rare appearance, my wife and True Loves co-writer Manien is going to be there too! So come on by and tell her how awesome she is. We will be on the second floor, table 204. This is the first time I’ve had a table up there. It has always seemed so bright and airy, so I’m excited.

I have been getting in a convention-y state of mind this week, as I’ve been going through old boxes of zines, magazines and comics and so forth. It is very hard for me to get rid of stuff when I look at it and it reminds me of say that time 13 of us slept in one hotel room at that one SPX. It is like drifting around in a time machine. So this is what my living room floor looked like the past couple of nights.

Speaking of SPX here is a relic from SPX 2003 I had forgotten. I made a booklet and got people to draw their SPX Memories in it. This was my cover.

Here is some kind of art installation I have been passing a few times a day for the past month. They keep working away on it. I call it Black Plastic Slope with Pylon Line.

The asparagus is up! Here is the aspagus patch just before I harvested our first big feed of the year.

And finally I made a tall salad with some Microgreens. And Manien harvested a bit of our skinny perennial arugula from the garden, so I made some fins.

New True Loves 3 is up! Check it out!

So last weekend was the big comic show and it was super successful and twice as many people came as they expected. So that is good for Vancouver. But it was a superhero show, and really that just isn’t my scene. The superhero crowd don’t want a comic with love in the title, or something about some dude turning 40. They want a rad looking print of Venom. The guy next to me made out like a bandit selling such things. Oh well. I’m looking forward TCAF next week and VanCAF later in the month!

Here is what the show looked like.

Luckily later at the Vancouver Comic Jam there was swenking.

New True Loves 3! I didn’t think I was going to get this done, as I spent a fair bit of time this week putting together FOUR new minicomics, so that I would have something new at the big Fan Expo this weekend. I have not been to a big mainstream show in a while, should be interesting. You can find me a row over from the Batmobile.

Also this Saturday is the Vancouver Comic Jam. I will be there looking fancy in my convention threads. Ben Woo and I just may be swenking.

And I finally finished colouring this Fire Walk With Me drawing I did ages ago.

I had a couple of songs from Kate Bush’s “Sensual World” in my head this morning. So while I ate lunch I watched videos.

Here is an older one – look, it is Donald Sutherland!

New True Loves 3! A new car?!

There is this great series of articles at Slate this week about walking. If you know anything about me, you know that I am a walker. I don’t drive. My job is a fifteen minute walk from home. I have trouble finding shoes that don’t wear out too quickly. And so this pro-pedestrian article reminds me how marginalized people travelling by foot are in North America. City planners only consider pedestrians insofar as they slow down cars. The second article gets into fascinating details that people who studied pedestrian behaviour observed. The third gets into walkscore which rates how walkable your neighbourhood is. Mine rated 77 (though a block or two east it is 88).

New True Loves 3! True wants to get a what?

On the weekend I got together with a couple of old pals. Guys I’ve known for 25 years! Holy smokes it was good to hang out with those guys. And then the next night I went out for drinks with coworkers and that was nice, but then after that I went to a couple of art openings and then after that went to the Media Club and saw some crazy noisy bands play. A great night! Look at me going out and doing stuff.

Here is a drawing I did just before meeting up with my old pals. Feeling inspired by rusty old hulks lately.

Manien has been on a run of going through old boxes and was inspired Saturday to tackle the legendary box labelled “Crap from our Trip” and she got me to look at a box labelled “Jason Kitchen.” Neither of these boxes had been opened for oh ten years or more. As well as old kitchen stuff, my box contained some comic pages I had been looking for, and this old jacket I had been wanting to dig out.

Back in late high school/university days I kept adding and adding mostly comic oriented stuff to this white jacket I wasn’t that crazy about.

On the front…
1. I am not sure what those trees were about, to be honest
2. LoN. League of the New, a superhero group I made as a kid and kept returning to for role-playing games and a FULLY PAINTED dark and gritty comic inspired by the Dark Knight Returns.
3. I loved throwing crosses on stuff. How edgy of me! J t! So bad! And an alpha/omega.
4. Background for the first panel of the Watchmen, where I pinned my Watchmen smiley face button.
5. Boot to the Head – referring to the Four on the Floor TV show. Hell Toupee was something from Eddy Current…

6. I had another jacket that I covered about a third of the sleeve with pop can tabs. I would keep my eye open for them on the ground when I walked around.
7. Dishman! by John MacLeod
8. I AM HE AS YOU ARE HE AS YOU ARE ME AND WE ARE ALL TOGETHER from a Beatles song and this graphic from Rick Veitch’s “The One” comic.
9. Eddy Current by Ted McKeever was a big influence on me.
10. Dark Knight style bats

11. Men Without Hats forever!
12. I was quite into Matt Wagner’s first “Mage: The Hero Discovered”
13. Go Canada!
14. Also Matt “Wagner’s Grendel”

New True Loves 3! In our minds, the story takes place around 2001 or 2002.

I framed a couple of worn out old t-shirts that I painted years ago.

Went into some boxes in the storage and found this old photo from around 1994, me and the night crew I worked with at the time.

I was totally grooving to this song last weekend. And the video someone made is full of happy dancing.

I have been quite fixated on this artist Marcus Coates the past couple of weeks. A strange nerdy British shaman artist trying to help people.