The Con is On; also, conundrums and neurotic meanderings

Awesome second day at XcapeCON. Sold an inked sketch to Marc Wolfe, so I was pretty stoked. He's a cool guy, pretty down-to-earth; he studied (for a brief period, at least) under Dennis Preston at Lansing Community College, my Humorous Illustration instructor last semester...

Actually, hold on. Let's talk about this for a moment.

Do you realize that I studied under Denny for sixteen weeks without having the foggiest notion what kind of recognition he's had? Or that I'd never heard of Marc Wolfe before I sold a sketch to him?

Come to think of it, though, if you're not much into comics or cartoons (or Lansing, I guess), you probably haven't heard of these guys either. Isn't that strange? Here I've been drawing and generally building toward comic book work for fifteen years (at least), and yet I'm either so isolated or so lazy that I don't know half the people I'm supposed to know.

Or am I supposed to know them as, you know, them? All I know is that these are pretty cool guys. Denny's a great teacher. Marc is pretty laid back. That's about the extent of my experience. It's only in looking at their websites that I realize what kind of talents these people are.

Anyway. Slight diversion there.

The Con was fun, and I made ten bucks; all is right with the world. They even had food down the hall. Awesome.

I have to get going; my class was supposed to meet at Saper Gallery for the Dr. Seuss show. And of course, I forgot. Damn my brain.

Rick Out.

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