MeCAF ReCAP 2013

MeCAF was a blast once again this year! I loved meeting everyone who came out to the show and drawing lots and lots of monsters!

A Boston monster for José-Luis Olivares

These nice people requested "a one-armed monster who is depressed, but with a glimmer of hope."
Who can't relate to that?

And I got a request for a half-Chewbacca, half-vampire:

I also got myself a new fake ID from an enterprising young man at the show. I haven't tested it out to see if it works in Massachusettes yet.

Moira Swiatkowski snapped a good shot of us. Bob looks alert and ready for action, but I look a little out of it. I think I am actually in the midst of imagining my next monster to draw as I uncap a marker!

Maine Comics Arts Festival

The Maine Comics Arts Festival is this Sunday in Portland, Maine. I will be there with Bob Flynn, doodling in copies of Heeby Jeeby Comix and drawing free monsters!

You should come! Just look at what happened last year!

MeCAF ReCAP

So . . . MeCAF was a blast!
Here's Bob and I at our table. (photo by Renée Kurilla)

Once again, we drew FREE MONSTERS for anyone who asked.

Keith asked for "awkward bigfoot," so that's what he got!

Loren created the Monster Works for us, which fed us ideas for our monsters like "ear muffs," "nose hair," and "big knee caps."

Maine Comics Arts Festival

MeCAF is this Sunday!
Bob Flynn and I will be doing FREE MONSTER DRAWINGS again, as well as selling the brand new issue of Heeby Jeeby Comix! Check out Chris Houghton's spectacular cover:

That amazing MeCAF poster is by Shelli Paroline and Braden D. Lamb.

MeCAF Report

I had a blast at the Maine Comics Festival on Sunday. Here's a shot of Bob (on the right) and I.

As advertised, we did Free Monster Drawings all day—more than 50 each! Unfortunately, I don't have a visual record of these, but I got some great requests. Some of my favorite drawing challenges were a monster made out of Legos, a monster who "likes to go out to dinner," a 16-headed monster (generously down-graded to a 12-header by the requester as my drawing paper began to fill up with monster heads), and a 3-headed monster who has a really long tongue in one head, breathes fire from the second head, and spits out pencil shavings (!) from the 3rd head. If anyone reading this got a monster drawing from me, send me a photo of it! I would love to remember more of what I drew.
We were scribbling out monsters like crazy, but Ellen Crenshaw was even more ambitious than we were. Go read her MeCAF report!
Now I can't stop drawing monsters:

Free Monsters!

Bob and I will be representing Heeby Jeeby Comix at the Maine Comics Art Festival this Sunday, May 22. And we will be drawing Free Monsters—for you! Or for someone else, if you don't come. Here are some samples of what you might get:

Maine-iacs

That's right, I'm heading up to Portland, Maine on Sunday with Dave K for the Maine Comics Art Festival.

Bob Flynn will be there selling copies of the brand new Heeby Jeeby Comix comic book.



(Photos by Bob - see more on his blog)

So if you're in the neighborhood, come check it out! It should be fun.

Jonathan Richman - New England
(I'm glad he's gotten a lot better at dancing since whenever this was.)