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I’ll be at Wondercon this weekend in San Francisco!

by David M Willis on March 31, 2011 at 12:13 am
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I kinda dropped the ball on building up to this con this week, what with the double-whammy of the Ethan statue preorders and my SP! book 4 fundraising blitz, but I’m gonna be in San Francisco this weekend for Wondercon!

I’ll be there with Kel McDonald (Sorcery 101), and we’ll be in the Small Press area, at table SP-29, I believe.  I’ll have books and prints and some new posters!  The one of particular interest to Dumbing of Age readers is the “Monroe Lake” poster, which is 11″x17″ and printed on thick glossy paper.  And if you’re not gonna be in San Francisco this weekend, you can order it from the store.

It’s my first convention in the city where Shortpacked! takes place!  (Is there one in Bloomington, Indiana?)  I’m excited!  It’s also my birthday this weekend.  On Sunday I turn 32.  If you’re there, feel free to drop me some extra booze money.

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Back from C2E2!

by David M Willis on March 22, 2011 at 10:55 pm
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Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hello at C2E2 last weekend in Chicago!  This was the first convention that I had a bunch of people come up and say they enjoyed Dumbing of Age while completely neglecting to mention Shortpacked!.  That’s exciting to me!  It means this little comic’s starting to come into its own.  (What’s the point of doing two comics with exactly the same overlapping readership, anyway?)

I also got a lot of Dumbing of Age character sketch requests.  I’ve uploaded one of them here for this blogpost, and the others were simple medium shots.  It makes me happy to be asked to draw Billie.  (And sometimes by herself, not only while being strangled by Ruth.)  These characters are old and dear to me, and part of the reason I started up this strip was because I wanted them to be loved again.

Thanks everybody for coming out to see me!  You’ll be able to see me again at Wondercon in San Francisco in a week and a half.

If shipping schedules aren’t lying to me, there should be a new beach-themed DoA poster going up in the store tomorrow night…

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Emerald City 2011 photos

by David M Willis on March 17, 2011 at 12:40 am
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As I pack for an undoubtedly fun weekend in Chicago for C2E2, have some belated photos from Emerald City Comicon:

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C2E2 in Chicago this weekend!

by David M Willis on March 14, 2011 at 3:20 pm
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I’m going back to C2E2 for its second year this coming weekend (March 18-20), and I’m bringing some pals.  You can find me sharing a table with Danielle Corsetto (Girls with Slingshots), Randy Milholland (Something Positive), and Joel Watson (Hijinks Ensue).  It looks like we’re in booth 862, which is a corner booth in the back of the hall facing Artists Alley and the Webcomics Pavilion.

You can still buy tickets to C2e2 online, but only for the next two days (plus eight hours as of this writing).

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Come see me at Emerald City Comicon!

by David M Willis on February 28, 2011 at 12:03 pm
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Man, I am freaking out!  I’ve never been the Pacific Northwest before, but come Thursday, I’m hopping a plane. Hopefully my books will be there when I arrive, and not half of a blender?  *cross fingers*

Please, Washington Staters, do not hurt me!  I am but a humble cartoonist.

I’ll be exhibiting this weekend with Blank Label Comics (duh) at booth 210.  I will have things with me!  You can have them.  But, you know, for money.

Argh how did convention season happen so sooooon.

(Pssst, you can see me ustreaming tomorrow’s comic over on the BLC hub.)

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Hey, it’s a convention banner!

by David M Willis on February 17, 2011 at 10:18 am
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This is how you know you know shit is just about to get real!  My new convention display banner for Dumbing of Age arrived by FedEx today, because convention season is… imminent.  Frighteningly imminent.  Oh my god oh my god.

Anyway, there’s a new DoA banner because I previously didn’t have one!  And I figgered, hey, well, maybe I should probably definitely.  I’ll bring this and last year’s Shortpacked! banner, the one that interlocked with the older banners, but from now on it’ll just be that banner and this one.  …or until I make a new SP! banner, anyway.  I had planned to do a new one along with this new DoA banner, but I couldn’t get a good composition, so I shelved it for a while.

If you want a better look at the DoA banner art, I have it up on my DeviantArt account.  You can also find my brainstorming doodles for it, as well.

…man, I should put a Convention Appearances box somewhere on this site like I do back over on Shortpacked!, shouldn’t I?  Regardless, I make my first appearance of the year faaaaaaaar over on the west cost at Emerald City Comic-Con.  That’s from March 4-6.  See you there!

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Mix it up

by David M Willis on December 11, 2010 at 11:45 pm
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So here’s a fun Webcomic Rampage story.  I’m pretty sure I’ll be telling this one a lot.  It’s a doozy.

I mailed two boxes of books to Austin.  One arrived perfectly!  The other arrived, too, but in an interesting condition.  It was, in fact, a completely new cardboard box, with the old, shredded cardboard box inside.  The mailing address, return address, and postage had been exacto-knifed off the old box and taped onto the new box.

Inside the old box inside the new box was half a blender.

Yeeeeaaaaaah.

Yeah.

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Webcomic Rampage next weekend in Austin!

by David M Willis on December 3, 2010 at 8:07 pm
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Hey, troops!  (Hmmm, I like using the word “troops.”  Can I start addressing you as troops?)  Next weekend I’m gonna be in Austin, Texas, at the Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy store for Webcomic Rampage, joined by all of your other favorite webcartoonists.  Part of the gearing up for this special event is the Dragon’s Lair’s podcast, which this past week interviewed both myself and Joel Watson.  You can listen to this podcast on their website!

If you’re planning on attending the Webcomic Rampage panel that opens both days of the event, be sure to RSVP via Facebook or phone, as there’s limited seating available!  After the panel there’ll be some signing and some wares snagging.  You won’t want to miss it!

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Webcomic Rampage in Austin, TX – December 11-12

by David M Willis on November 16, 2010 at 1:18 pm
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Hey, dudes, there’s one last  hurrah for me this convention season, and it’s a doozy!  On December 11-12, Dragon’s Lair Comics in Austin, Texas, is holding Webcomic Rampage!  It’s Saturday and Sunday, each day beginning with a panel featuring all of us webcomics guests, and culminating in some Webcomics Christmas Shopping.  Who’s coming?

David Willis of Shortpacked!/Dumbing of Age
Danielle Corsetto of Girls with Slingshots!
Joel Watson of Hijinks Ensue
Bill Williams of Side Chicks
Randy Milholland of Something Positive
Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content
Josh Lesnick of Girly

These are all awesome people and Webcomic Rampage is going to be awesome.  Be there!

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New England Webcomics Weekend 2!

by David M Willis on November 5, 2010 at 12:00 pm
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Hey, dudes!  Maggie and I are on the road to Easthampton, Massachusetts, for New England Webcomics Weekend.  Why?  Because NEWW is friggin’ awesome.

We’ll be there for the Pub Crawl on Friday night, plus both “real” days, Saturday and Sunday.  There are over 50 webcartoonists at this thing, plus MC Frontalot!  Basically, if a meteor hits this town this weekend, the Internet is dead.  All you’ll have left is the LOLcats website and Movie-Comics.

I’ll have a table where I’ll be hanging out.  I’ll have the Roomies! book, the two remaining Shortpacked! volumes, and some brand-spankin’ new Dumbing of Age merchandise.  Posters!  Hats!  Also, high-fives.

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