SPX 2007 Report

Christin and I represented ICON Studios at the Small Press Expo (SPX) last week in Maryland. We were there selling copies of Like That as well as promoting our new webcomic, M.O.P.S. The show was smaller than I expected but still the largest comic centric show we’ve exhibited at yet. It was a little larger than Staple! in terms of number of exhibitors and floor space, but there many wasn’t that many more attendees which was a bit disappointing. We didn’t sell that many more copies of Like That than we did at Staple! this past March. There were enough people that we handed out all of our M.O.P.S. cards and stickers. We received a lot of great feedback on the project which we hope will translate into more site traffic. We probably won’t do SPX next year because for the price, we can do an even bigger show like WonderCon or ComicCon. Our next shows will be on consecutive November weekends: Nov 3rd at the Louisiana Book Festival and Nov 10th at the New Orleans Book Fair.

Small Press Expo

I will be representing ICON Studios this week at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland. The show is Friday and Saturday (Oct 12th and 13th) at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center. So if you or someone you know lives in the Washington, D.C. area be sure to tell them to come by and visit us. We'll be selling t-shirts and copies of Like That as well as promoting the M.O.P.S. web comic.

The Jane Austen Book Club

My review of The Jane Austen Book Club is online on The Advocate's website. This chick flick wasn't really my cup of tea.

Link: http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/10276282.html

M.O.P.S. Episode 2

The second episode of ICON Studios' web comic, M.O.P.S. is available on the official website www.wefightdirty.net. This episode was written and lettered by me. Be sure to tell everybody to go check it out or I won't be your friends anymore. Direct link: http://www.iconstudios.org/mops/index.html?gotostrip=2

Movie Review: Eastern Promises

My review from this weekend has been posted on The Advocate's website. It's a review of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises that was released nationwide on Friday.

Here's the link: http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/9938901.html

My New Gig

I've recently taken on a second job doing some freelance writing for the entertainment section of The Advocate website. I am writing movie reviews for them, the first of which was posted on their site yesterday. It is a review of a film called Death Sentence starring Kevin Bacon. I think I will be starting off doing around one movie review per week, but it's really on an as needed basis. The more movies that come out on one weekend, the more likely I am to write one. I've written one another review besides the one that has been posted already. I'll post the link to that review once it goes live. The link for the review of Death Sentence is http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/9906412.html

ICON Studios launches new web comic - M.O.P.S.

ICON Studios is proud to present M.O.P.S., a new web comic launching today at http://www.wefightdirty.net. The Martial Organization Protecting Sanitation (M.O.P.S.) is a brigade of little monsters that live in your shoes, under your bed, and behind your fridge. They loathe all things dirty, filthy, and downright disgusting. These neat freaks are perpetually cleaning up the mess left behind by not only us humans, but also by those masterminds of filth, the Dust Bunneez. Their adventures will continue with a new episode every month at www.wefightdirty.net. So please bookmark us or subscribe to the M.O.P.S. RSS feed.