Aftermath: MoCCA April 10-11

Ooooh weeee! Whatta weekend!!

Thursday April 8th was my FIRST EVER SIGNING at Jim Hanley's Universe in Manhattan. It was a pre-MoCCA Fest Women in Comics get-together featuring some really awesome independent female comic creators all chosen by Jim Hanley employee and awesome cartoonist in her own right Rachel 'Ronnie' Freire. I was so excited to take part in it I was the first girl to show up with merch in tow, giant shit-eating grin on my face. Lots of friends came by to show their support and it was awesome to sit alongside such amazing ladies. Hopefully next signing I'm a part of I'll actually have a comic! ;D





Friday the 9th I headed over to 192 Books on the West side with my pal game designer Christy Sawyer for Drink & Draw Like a Lady, a meet and greet for female cartoonists and creators. It was soooo crowded! Christy and I mostly just hung out in the corner, since it was shoulder to shoulder people and partook of the free wine being offered. Needless to say, we got a little tipsy.




Photo by The Jenya, see the rest of her shots here! And some more shots from the evening here!

As Christy and I were walking home we came across someone throwing away A GIANT CASIO KEYBOARD. @__@ So OBVIOUSLY we had to take pictures pretending to play it!!




Saturday and Sunday were the ACTUAL con! (I did all that before the actual con? Jeezums!)

I had a small sliver of a table (only half of a normal table- at $250 a pop that was all I could afford!) but that didn't stop me from rocking the spot. Fortunately it was on the end of an aisle, so I could set up everything on my table then sit/stand to the side. Saturday of the convention was INSANE! As a friend described, I was 'holding court' for 7 straight hours! It was so great to see so many friends and fans, it was like every time I turned around someone else was there for me to talk to. It was also exhausting! At one point when I was particularly exhausted, my friend Kyle Baker introduced me to one of my artistic idols, Jamie Hernandez, of Love & Rockets fame and what resulted was a hilariously awkward five minutes of us standing and looking at each other and nodding and smiling. I being intimidated because he's an amazing artist and creator of one of my fave comics, he being intimidated by me because I'm a foot taller than him with rather big knockers. (LOL!) By the time it was nearing the end of Saturday I was so fatigued from being so excited to talk to everyone I skipped out on the afterparty (which sounded to be a bust anyways) and just grabbed sushi and beers with Ballsy and some of my pals from DC Comics.


With some fans from SVA- they were so cute!


Me and my merch, shot by Reid Cooper

On Sunday the con calmed down a little bit, as is typical for the last day, and I had a chance to do some sketches for fans.


Disco Dazzler


Beautiful Dreamer from The New Gods

All in all I'd definitely chalk up this convention to a success, I'm still on the fence over whether or not I'll do it again next year, mostly because the tables are so expensive.

PS: If anything though this con has started to ignite some fires of initiative with me getting off my bum and getting on doing a comic. Had some great conversations with people about what I want to do and where I want to take my work that was very motivational. I ordered the book 'Story' by Robert McKee at the urging of my old friend Maximo Lorenzo, so hopefully that'll help me out.

PPS: I also discovered a really awesome comic being put out by a chick who came to MoCCA all the way from Portland! Her name's Catherine Peach, and she does the adorable comic 'Pussy Fuzz', which I am in LOVE with! Soooo cute! You can check out her work here! My favorite find of the convention- even though I never actually walked around. She actually had the brilliant idea of walking around selling her comics as a cigarette girl, and even had mini-comics in cigarette boxes. If I get the table at NYCC I actually want my best friend/PR agent Fenny to kind of do the same sort of thing with my promo stuff, since that con will be insanely huge.

PPPS: Forgot to post this video of MoCCA taken by The Action Room. You can see me at 1:41 for a half second.

Got my MoCCA table assignment! A-26!

That's about it. I'll be at table A-26 for the duration of MoCCA Fest next weekend (April 10-11), so if you're in the area swing by, say hello and maybe buy something. ;D



In other news, I'm going ABSOLUTELY BONKERS waiting to finally hear some sort of confirmation on my table for New York Comic Con, that I submitted for back in November. NOVEMBER!! I've been waiting 5 months and been checking my email every 15 minutes since 7am because TODAY IS THE DAY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO TELL US. It's 11am now.

This is how I feel about that:


EDIT: My friends who are also waiting for notification have just alerted me: THEY'RE NOT TELLING PEOPLE TIL MAY 1ST. GAH!!!

Jim Hanley's Universe: Women in Comics Pre-MoCCA signing

Weeee! BIG NEWS! I'm invited to take part in a signing at Jim Hanley's Universe from 6-8 pm on Thursday April 8th for Women in Independent Comics as part of a little pre-MoCCA Fest shindig! Yeeeee! XD My first EVER SIGNING!! How exciting! I'll be bringing as much Paigey merch as I can carry, including artbooks, necklaces, prints and magnets and will be selling them in the store! So yeah, if you're in the NYC area swing on by and say hello to me and the other ladies!



For more info, click the flyer to be taken to JHU's homepage!

Let's go shopping!

Convention season is almost here! I'm so excited! Kicking it off for me will be MoCCA Fest on April 10-11 at the 69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY. I'll have a table and will be selling prints, jewelry, magnets, artbooks and (hopefully) Miss Mary Jane toys.

On more than one occasion I've been asked by a good portion of my female fans where I get the retro clothes that I wear while hanging at my artist alley booth. I always like to look my best when representing myself and my artwork. And for curvier girls such as myself, the retro pinup style is very complimentary to my figure.




NYCC '09

Well, me being the sweetheart I am, will share with you some of my favorite stores for retro clothing. Just promise we won't show up somewhere in the same outfit. ;)





Mode Merr makes awesome stuff. Of my 'dress up' clothes I'd say about 60% of it is Mode Merr. Their pencil skirts are a great foundation piece to build off of. Every girl should have at least one. Just be careful getting in and out of cars, if you're a tall, clumsy girl like me who tends to plop down where ever she's gonna sit, you'll run the risk of busting the back seam of a pencil skirt and run back in the house to emergency sew it back together. Their tops are also great, I love the peasant tops and the 'Everyone loves cleavage' blouse with the Mandarin keyhole. It definitely lives up to it's name. My boyfriend Phil has basically forbidden me from wearing that top anywhere he is not also present, as 'the girls' are very much on display.
I've actually have worn Mode Merr so much that I was asked to take part in the upcoming Mode Merr Fashion Spectacular in Brooklyn on April 25th! Sooo excited! If you can come out I highly suggest it- it's at the Bell House in Gowanus, Bk which is a great venue (with an awesome bar) and they have all their current stock on sale along with uber-cheap clearance items a fashion show for their upcoming new stuff and an AMAZING burlesque show featuring acts like The World Famous Pontani Sisters, Miss Delirium Tremens and Dirty Martini. Sooo excited!!



Other stores:



Babygirl Boutique - Unstoppable Quickening Retro, Rockabilly & Indie Clothing, Jewelry, Shoes & Accessories!

Babygirl Boutique has alot of cool jewelry and a wide variety to their stuff.



Stop Staring! is my go-to brand for when I've gotta get uber-dressy, like for weddings, dinners and various other fanciness.



Daddy O's was one of the first stores I went to for my retro-inspired shopping. Not only do they have alot of great dresses (some Stop Staring! dresses are cheaper here than on the actual SS! site) they also have alot of guy clothes, particularly lounge and work shirts. Phil gets stuff from here regularly.

Pin-up Girl clothing has some AWESOME STUFF. Great selection, a bunch of exclusives, one of the few stores I can shop at where I know stuff will usually fit me without getting it tailored to my hourglassy figure.
***** I have yet to actually buy anything from any of these stores, but I PLAN to: *****



GORGEOUS formal dresses from a variety of eras.



Where I plan on getting my wedding dress one day.



Suuuper cute swing dresses with very full skirts and crinolines. I've seen them in person and they're beautiful.

So wait! Now that you have all these uber-hot pin-up clothes, you gotta get the foundation garments to wear underneath to get that va-va-voom hourglass shape!



Girdlebound has some great selections on bullet bras, waist cinchers and girdles at totally decent prices. I know I rarely go out in pin-up style without my RAGO waist cincher.

There's also Secrets in Lace (who has a betty Page AND Dita Von Teese collection!) and Dirty Dolls Lingerie, who make excellent vintage style underthings that are a wee bit out of my price range at the moment. ;) But one day....


These are all the stores I can think of off the top of my head. If you have more to suggest by all means leave a comment!

Paigey! at the Oscars gift lounge

Hey! Remember when I sent all those Space Girl necklaces to Home of the Sampler to be put in Oscars gift bags? Well, the Oscars are done and I've got shots of people with my stuff!

Angelica Zambrana, an actress in Precious



Sara Underwood, Playmate of the Year 2007



You can see the rest of the shots here.

We'll see if anything comes of it. Maybe Tara Reid will get snapped by TMZ in my Spacegirl necklace. One can hope.

If you wanna snag a Spacegirl necklace of your own, or any other Paigey products- check out my etsy store!

She's something.... Laika Phenomenon.

Hey everybody!! Laika Phenomenon is up for voting at PatchTogether.com!


Click the pic to get taken to her voting page!



As far as I know there's no other derby toys/action figures/figurines on the market, especially one not as authentic- I tried putting as much detail as I can into the figure, from her mouthguard to her padding to the bloody band-aids and bruises. For those of you just joining us, this is actually my second figure with PatchTogether, my first- Miss Mary Jane, is due to be shipped at the end of the month. She's currently out of stock, but on her page you can vote to have her restocked. You can also see the quality of work the sculptors do and and how good of a job they've done with interpreting a 2D illustration into a 3D figurine. I still need votes to get it made, and then once it gets enough votes it'll be available for a discounted pre-order sight unseen while they sculpt it. Once it hits 20 or so pre-orders then they start sculpting and offer it at full price and will work with me on getting it to look perfect. I know with Miss Mary Jane it took about 6 revisions so they are very serious about doing the artwork justice. Then it will be on sale for about a month or two and then the sales will be closed and it will go into full production and ship out to customers. I'm hoping with the final product Laika will be about 8.5" tall with some sort of base.
I'll be sure to let you know when it goes up for sale as an actual toy. It hasn't been up a full 24 hours yet and is already at a third of the votes it needs. Every vote helps though! If Laika does especially well I might have to make up some teammates for her. ;D

Miss Mary Jane boxart

Finished the box label art for my Miss Mary Jane figure with Patchtogether.com. Those of you who ordered her when she was available should see her in your mailbox sometime late March/ early April. Hopefully just in time for 4/20! If you didn't have a chance to order her, click here to register and vote for her to be restocked at Patchtogether.com! I do have a small surplus of figures that I bought to sell at conventions this year. I may also put one or two up on eBay.
I'm hoping the box design removes all doubt that she is a broccoli girl. I've had to point it out to soo many people that she's a weed girl. I kinda beat the pot motif to death on the design. You can't see it on most computer screens, but I also have white pot leaves all in the background behind her. What I love is the 'I Dream of Jeannie' influence on the logo.