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I volunteered again at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD.  It was fun and I’ll have to work more shifts next year.  I spent some $$$ and got some new books.  Neil Swaab was there, of Mr Wiggles fame, he was very approachable (also gives you deals on his books!).  I bought the second volume of The Fart Party, Julia look thrilled to be there so I didn’t want to spoil her afternoon by asking her to do a specific doodle I had thought up.  I kinda wussed out.  Sometimes it’s just awkward to talk to people who do autobiographical comics.  You don’t want to seem creepy by telling them too much about them self nor do you want act too strange yourself and end up featured in their comic.  I finally bought The Blot by Tom Neely, I saw it two years ago but never got around to getting till now.  Got 2 new Chris Yates ghosts.  I commissioned a (free, what a nice guy) sketch of myself courtesy of Brian Evinou, a Toronto based artist.  I compiled all of my cartoon portraits below and provided a bigger version of my newest one.

I have an idea for a fun/challenging photography project. I take a sample work from all of cartoonists that I follow and I try to capture in a photograph the essence or spirit of the their style. It but’s hard for me to think of an abstract photo as representing their style. I too quickly fall into the thought pattern on staging a photo to resemble their comic. That I think is too easy. If I pursue this idea I’ll be posting them over on hotcactuspepper.com/blog. Encouragement may help me decide whether to do this or not.