So I have these two roommates — Scott Aleric Vancil and Alicia Kat Dillman — a couple of up-and-coming artists. Scott writes, draws, and otherwise produces a webcomic called Hell Has Found Me, the story of what video game characters (hereafter known as Toons) do in their off hours. Kat is an illustrator, recently graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco — her website and her absolutely stunning work can be found at Katgirl.net . So, the two of them, monsters of the small publishing world that they be, invited me to come along and share the love at the Alternative Press Expo yesterday, held at the Concourse Convention Center in SF. I arrive and I immediately recognize that I don’t know jack squat (do people still say that) about the Alternative Press world. So, being the extremely short-sighted person I am, I said to myself:
“Hey, you just started that blog, right? Why not blog the event? Sure, you’ve got no wi-fi and the only camera you’ve got is your phone and you look like some kind of rube up from the styx but… what the hell, what do you have to lose, right?”
So I took it upon myself to go to every booth, get a card, talk to the exhibitors a bit, and get pictures of the creators. BIG MISTAKE. The results? A pair of extremely sore feet, kinda sore knees, 140 photos, and a backpack filled with business cards of people I foolishly promised to link to. Still, I had a lot of fun, and got to meet people, most of whom I’d never heard of but several I had, with a few special surprises and one extra EXTRA special surprise for yours truly.
So… in the next few posts, I’ll be going over the highlights. In the meantime, here’s every last picture I took, some of which will be reused out of sheer laziness in the next few posts.
Daniel Latta
