Aftermath: NYCC 2013

On Saturday I dressed up as a rockabilly Lum from Urusei Yatsura!

 

 New York Comic Con 2013 is my final show of the year, which is both relieving and disappointing at the same time. My artist alley table was a rousing success and I sold out of several pieces of merch, which is phenomenal. I came in Thursday with a full suitcase and left Sunday with it at about a third the capacity! That's right- Thursday to Sunday! NYCC is SUCH a crazy busy convention it goes full speed for 4 days (the only other that does this is San Diego!). In fact I made back most of my table cost just on Thursday! It was crazy! I didn't really get to see much of the show floor due to being mobbed at my table all weekend- it literally took me over an hour from saying that I was going to go to the bathroom to actually being able to break free from my table, haha. NYCC was great way to close out the convention year for me though, I got to see so many friends and fans and sell a lot of my merch and gave away over a thousand of my cards to (hopefully) new fans and future customers! Looking forward to next year when Fenny (of Little Asian Sweatshop) and I plan to get a booth on the main floor!

On Thursday! Lookit that energy! Haha, that won't last!

Friday!

My table setup alongside Sara Woolley, who was kind enough to share her table with me!

2013 marks my *6th YEAR* of vending tables at Artist Alley as a professional illustrator. And it definitely seems with the success I've had at my tables this year I'm finally starting to find my footing in these crazy dog-and-pony shows. I've become confident in the level of professionality and universal appeal my merchandise has achieved over the years and look forward to creating even more merch featuring my art for you all to have as part of your lives.

Me and cosplayer Jennifer Rose, dressed as my Rockabilly Rogue!

Me as Lum on Saturday!

I don't normally do convention sketches, but a couple of lucky friends caught me off guard.

For booth neighbor Ashley Riot of her original character

For Marsha Cooke's Lady Gaga-themed sketchbook

Here's some video of my table on Friday:

BIG NEWS! I'll be at NYCC Artist Alley table O-13!

Thanks to the generosity of friend and fellow NYC Drink & Drawer Sarah Wooley, I will be sharing  Artist Alley table #O-13 and selling my wares ALL WEEKEND LONG of NYCC 2013 with her.
Yaaay!

And I have MORE STICKERS that I will be selling at my table. 

Miss Mary Jane sticker!

Nurse on a pill sticker!

Not going to be at NYCC? I also have my stickers available at my etsy store!

Stickers, cosplayers and progress videos! Yay!

Hey guys! Lots of random, neat stuff going on at the Paigey labs. Thought I'd share it with you!

~I got my very own cosplayer!! Super awesome cosplay chica Jennifer Rose dressed up as my Rockabilly Rogue from my X-Men redesigns (that I still want to draw more of, but alas...) at this year's Dragon*Con! She NAILED IT! I'm already plotting to steal her sweater clips. Apparently she'll be at NYCC and I really hope to get a picture or two with her- cuz OMG! :D

~Also after returning from Baltimore Comic Con I decided to reinvest my profits into some fun new merch, this time around being my first sets of full color, all weather vinyl stickers (a la Stickermule.com). So far I've got my chibi Bride of Frankenstein made and I've got my Miss Mary Jane on a pipe and my Nurse on a pill coming super-super soon in sticker form. I'm super happy with Stickermule's stickers. They look great and have this nice rubbery matte texture that's unlike any stickers I've really seen around. The prices are also reasonable, there's low minimums so you don't have to buy a BAZILLION stickers with each order and the shipping was way fast. There's a wide variety of product as well. I highly suggest them for your sticker needs.

Bride Stickers are now available on my etsy store!!

~I'm getting some of my original vellum inks of the art I did right before Baltimore Con together and have been finishing them in that weird technique I've been doing where I color them like animation cels. Here's some quick videos and process shots!

Also: haha, I'm a dork. 

…so I totally ‘ship’ Wanda Woodward from Cry-Baby with Biff Tannen from Back to the Future. I mean they’re like MADE FOR EACH OTHER. They’re both SO HOT AND SO MEAN.  Wanda could have moved to Cali after the events of Cry-Baby and met up with Hill Valley’s most loved degenerate somehow and.. and…. Hey! Where are you going???

I'm down with OTP, YEAH YOU KNOW ME.

Aftermath: Baltimore Comic Con 2013

 

Another Baltimore Comic Con in the books! This show marks my *6th* year as a working professional artist on the convention circuit. (Though it feels like SO MUCH LONGER- haha.) 

Baltimore Comic Con has always been a favorite show for me. It's my hometown show, so there's always a TON of people who come by my table. Baltimore has perhaps the most loyal fans of any show I've ever done. Plus I also get to see friends from so many different times from my life. By the end of the show my voice was ragged and my face hurt from smiling so much.  

Again I was set up with my BFF Fenny of Little Asian Sweatshop and we brought our newest partner-in-crime Maria Danalakis along as well.

I am SO GLAD to hear starting next year BCC will be a 3 day show! Set up early on Saturday mornings was one of my only gripes- it just sets you up to be frazzled and tired for the rest of the weekend.

Overall Baltimore (as always) was a very successful show and it was great to see so many friends and fans! 

Here's some video from the table on Saturday!

 

A couple new chibi pieces!

Not much to report! Prepping for Baltimore Comic Con next week and drawing to de-stress. Haha. 

These are just for fun, mostly. And to keep myself sharp with my coloring and linework. Plus I can always use them for magnet sets, mini-print postcards and I'm actually thinking of getting the Frankenstein couple made as a sticker set this fall.

Tex Avery's Red and The Wolf

"Franken-FINE"

Little Asian Sweatshop on Heroes of Cosplay!

Holy craaaaaaap I'm so proud!!! My BFF Fenny of Little Asian Sweatshop, whom I'm frequently work with at conventions and design for totally had one of her GLaDOS hair flowers on the teevee!

Chloe on Syfy's Heroes of Cosplay was totally ROCKING her GLaDOS hair flower in the confessional segments of the Emerald City Comic Con episode.

(Which I happened to design... ~__^ )

Eeeeh! It looks so good!!

You can get your own hairflower here!!

 

Did we mention it LIGHTS UP?

Check out Little Asian Sweatshop's etsy store for this and other awesome accessories!!!

Cake the Cat and Fionna the Human!

"It WAS a date! There was singing and junk!"

Scrambling to get some new art together for Baltimore Comic Con in a couple weeks! I'll be in Artist Alley with Little Asian Sweatshop and Maria Danalakis Art!

My *6th* year attending in Artist Alley!

 Did some more chibi-pairings that I use for mini prints and magnet sets! I managed to get the above Fionna and Cake from Adventure Time art to the printers in time for Baltimore Con, so I'll have 5"x7" mini prints of these two for the show! Also doing two more pairings- which I should have magnet sets of but unfortunately won't have prints in time, of Tex Avery's Red Hot and The Wolf, and of my absolute hero in life Pee-Wee Herman and Miss Yvonne, the Most Beautiful Woman in Puppetland!

"Oh Wolfie!"

SCREAM REAL LOUD!

 It is as I feared, though. I draw two Pee-Wee's Playhouse characters and now I want to draw EVERYONE.