What's that
 

 

You want to see a picture of me and Kate Beaton riding horses and the horses have rollerskates and all this is happening beneath a beautiful rainbow
 

 

WELL SIR YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE
 

 

 

 

So I had fun at the comic convention on saturday! Hello to all the people off the internet who I met in real life for the first time like daleof (check out his drawing of me in the corner),  shug_comics , beatonna  and eggstorm , you people were everything I hoped for and more

 

It was also lovely as always to see joedecie , jabberworks , ryclaude , ztoical , chamonkee , yunni  HOLD TIGHT UK WEBCOMICS MASSIVE
 

Accross the atlantic, the LA contigent were out in full force at the GIANT ROBOT show off Haight Street, San Francisco. Here's Adam the organizer wearing one of my t-shirts, available soon from attractmo.de .
 

 

daphaknee  was also there representing our side with her Mighty Jill Off hat (Mighty Jill Off is the game I did the artwork and character design for, you remember, right).  She took the hat off because people kept asking her if she was the game's creator Auntie Pixelante which is pretty hilarious mistake to make I guess
 

Here's a picture of her in her owl hat, instead:

 

 
She was getting important videogames people to pose for pictures in diapers! I can't remember if that was to promote our game or if it was just something she was doing for her own benefit, but you can see pics of the whole event at Daphny's blog.

 
Ok, so! Here's a treat and a novelty: actual content!

 
In case you're a new reader, I should explain that for 6 months of last year I taught English on a small island south of Korea. I drew stories for my children which I would project onto the screen in the classroom and act out for them. I'd also get them to repeat every line of dialogue, and I incorporated games, costumes and other exercises. The characters you'll in this story would recurr every week: Becky, Eric, Jin-su, and in later episodes, new character DRACULA. I think I was making about 4 stories a week at one point, so it ended up being a very good exercise in cartooning and storytelling!

I also treated the whole thing as an excercise in pushing boundaries of taste, so each week I would increase the level of violence to see what it would take for my Korean co-teacher to start disapproving of the content in the stories I was writing. I never actually found out. There is one story where Jin-su sets a horse on fire and another where Eric accidentally slaughters seven of his own children and has to wheel off their bodies in a cart, and my Korean co-teacher never so much as batted aneyelid. In fact, the horse episode was actually the first time a member of staff ever told me 'you are a good teacher.'

Today's story is relatively tame by those standards, but was still pretty popular with the kids: IS THIS YOUR HAT, REMIX