The new baby is about three months away. The sports store site is almost a year old. My son is close to 3.25 years old. And Chicago’s best show in almost 5 years is upon us…C2E2! And it’s only in its first year. I will in town all weekend so swing by the Square 1 Press booth with Superb Steve Hoveke much of the time. I’ll also be roaming and visiting friends, too.

See you there!

-posted from my droid…

Anyway.

Things were crazy for me in September and October.  The first annual Long Beach Comic Con was a huge success and we’ve already begun work on year two.  It’s a great show and it has so much potential to grow.  Can’t wait to dig in deep on next years stuff.  We’ve gotten so many commitments for 2010 already.

My graphic novel is progressing well.  The artist, Jeff Stokely is a young phenom.  He’ll be a house hold name in a few years.  Well in comics anyways.  But that said, I am working on incorporating some great notes from a potential publisher.  I’d love to be with these guys.  A-1 crew with top notch product.  Be great to have the book on the shelves next summer.  Its our goal.  We’ll see how we do!

Freelance is going well.  Just a few days away form the Woodbury Sports soft launch.  I’m very excited as it has been a ton of work thus far.  It’s going to be a great online shop.  Keep your eyes peeled for it.  Web development projects are starting to trickle in for Jeff, Keith and myself.  Which is cool.  Both of the recent ones are fun gigs and hopefully they will lead to bigger projects.  I picked up an interesting inquiry about some marketing work that I am kicking around.  Not sure if it is right for me but the potential client is a very nice guy.  I’ll see what shakes out.

Spent much of the early part of the night fashioning my son’s robot costume for Halloween.  He has his first “party” with his nursery school classmates this Thursday so I need to deliver one kick ass costume for him.  Next up he has Halloween itself and the trick r treating mayhem that is sure ensue (and the sugar rush) followed by a costume birthday party on Sunday.

Time to hit the sack.  The last three hours of freelance work has tired me the hell out.  Gotta be up in about four hours to do Daddy duty.  Could be worse, right?  =)

It’s been a busy summer.  I feel like yesterday was Memorial Day when in fact, Labor Day was two weeks back.  It’s crazy.  So much has gotten done and happened since my last post in early August.

I’ve completed a treatment for a graphic novel and snagged a great artist, Jeff Stokely, to illustrate it.  Scripting currently and getting ready to shop it.  I have a certain publisher in mind that would be a dream to work with.  We shall see.

My freelance work is coming along.  The sports store website is getting very close.  Details, details now.

My son started Nursery School last week, too.  Even tho has had shed his fair share of tears thus far, I am not sure who it is harder on.

Long Beach Comic Con is only two weeks plus away.  Once it wraps I’ll be back to posting much more frequently.  Including teaser pages and art form the graphic novel.  It’s going to be a race to the finish for 2009 and quite frankly, I can’t wait til it’s over.  It’s really been one hell of a year…

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