At the Laughs At Lakeside gallery show, I met quite a few Ohio artists & cartoonists and was lucky enough to have some of them join the cartoonist group, Sunday Comix. One of them was the “newly minted” cartoonist Sue Olcott (that’s her on the left talking with another long-time local artist, Susan Sturgill).

Sue recently began writing & drawing this wonderful, quirky comic Onion City; in the vein of some of the great underground comix artists of the 60s & 70s:

At present, I don’t know how else to get a copy of her book besides you emailing here at optikstix_at_yahoo.com.

Anyway, when I saw her watercolor-styled art, I knew I found someone who could translate my (occasionally overwrought) B&W line work into and elevate it to another realm. So I asked her to color my version of Calvin & Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book; a tribute to Bill Watterson’s phenomenal comic. I think she did a stupendous job:

Cerebus Fangirl (aka Margaret) posted a bunch of photos from this past weekend.  I am so thankful for all the support I got from every one of the Cerebus Yahoo Group members who attended the show!  Below is a photo of all after the yearly post-SPACE-dinner at Schmidt’s Sausage Haus in German Village.  (Maybe someday, I’ll have Blink & Sam eat there…)

Back row (left to right): Eric A, Steve B, Dave S, Jeff S, Lenny, Steve P, and Jason W.

Front row (left to right): Chris W, Larry H, Margaret, Jeff T, and little ol’ me.

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She also managed to take some photos of Dave & me during our “Glamourpussy Debate” (all of which I posted on my Flickr site)…

…as well as one of me working on a sketch for an old time friend & fan from KY. (Hi, Billy!)

My good friend Steve Peters came in from Willow Grove, PA to stay at my place for the weekend. He comes out to Columbus once a year (as many cartoonists do) for the annual Small Press & Alternative Comix Expo. This was the ninth annual show, last year it got “bumped up” to two days (Sat & Sun) and with the Friday night party that PANEL thru at the Monkey’s Retreat comic shop, it ended up being something of a three-day affair.

This year’s turn-out wasn’t as strong as last year’s (probably because of the show being held more than a month earlier than usual)… nevertheless, I did have a great time (and made a profit, to boot)!

I’d have to say one of the highlights of the weekend was giving Dave a framed print I made of Cerebus telling Blink and Sam that they weren’t quite “Glamourpussy” enough to be in Mr. Sim’s new Glamourpuss comic book. I managed to sell quite a few prints at the show– thanks to all the faithful Cerebus Yahoos. (Hopefully, you will get to see a copy of the print in question somewhere in the pages of Glamourpuss #2!)

Although I didn’t get to meet & greet all the cartoonists I wished to, I was able to connect with some old friends and made a few new ones, too. So, thanks to Bob, Dave, Chuck, Sam, Sue, Mike, Michael, Ray, Russell, Kel, Pam, Matt, Margaret, Jeff T., Jeff S., Lenny, Steve, Larry, Jason, J.D., Rafer, Ed, Allen, Eric B., Jerry, Troy, Adam, Dylan, Phil, Tom, Eric A., Pat, Nate, Billy, Shannon and everyone else (there are a few dozen whom I missed) who helped to make this year’s SPACE the best one ever!