Belated thank you to Free Comic Book Day and MegaCon patrons!

Steady rolling over here. It's been a crazy, busy and fun month. Thank you Gods & Monsters for hosting us for Free Comic Book Day, it was great! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to see us at table 211A at MegaCon too. More Apooka updates to come, it's gonna be a big year for her too!

April A Day

Howdy everyone! It's been a minute since the last post. I've been more active on Instagram lately. Also been on Youtube helping my good friend Joe Foo out with Camp Pencil Point videos. I started a drawing challenge with my good friend Justin Castaneda called "April A Day," where we draw April O'Neil of Ninja Turtles fame. Here's some samples, again you can see more on my Instagram @mikerroll. I will be doing another challenge during the month of May so stay tuned!

C2E2 2013!

Hey Chicago! We're back! Come visit Desmond, Joe Foo, Justin Castaneda, Jay Fosgitt, The other Jay and myself at L7 in the L Aisle, if you're in the neighborhood. Stay tuned, more to come!

Spring Show Update Part 2: More Motor City Comic Con

So in case you were paying attention, we're going backwards on the Spring show update. Starting with the most recent being Motor City Comic Con. The next update we'll be going back to New York for MoCCAFest and following that will be Chicago's C2E2. On with the show! So our day 2 (which was the show's day 3) was quite busy and exciting. Still buzzing from the previous day, especially the comment about Apooka inspiring a child to read a book, tired yet excited, we forged on. The attendance was really strong. There was a little more room so we had a chance to wander around and visit with some old friends ,vendors and making new friends. Then we had a visit from Flo, it turns out she approves of Apooka too. Thanks Flo! Finally the highlight of our day was getting a visit from Jimmy. It turns out Jimmy was the savvy young gentleman who purchased some Apooka books at the Detroit Fanfare Show (last Fall) and then left without them! We tried to track him down but Jimmy was long gone before you could say "bwains." So it was nice to catch up with Jimmy, he's a nice guy. Thanks again Jimmy! Thanks again to everyone who stopped by our table. Next stop: Kid's Read Comics - July 7-8. This is a free event. We'll have giveaways and you'll get to meet some wonderful comics creators. More on that to come, plus there will be a big cool announcement regarding Apooka, PLUS the rest of the Spring show update. Woohoo!

Kids Read Comics 2011! The kids ARE all right!

Howdy all! We had a great time at Kids Read Comics this weekend, thanks to all who stopped by to say "hi!" Special thanks to Tina and Joe Foo for being super fine tablemates and thanks to Dan, Dan, Edith and Jerzy for all of your hospitality and hard work. It was a wonderful event and we were lucky to have some nice Summer weather. "Fishing for Comics," "Quick Draw" and a sketch I did for Brandon were some of many highlights from this weekend. It was a real blast to be around such creative writers and artists.

Taking a break from cons until September when we hit the road for SPXPO and the Detroit Fanfare after that. Next stop for us is the Train Festival 2011 in Rock Island, IL where the hard cover version of The Trains of Christmas children's book will debut!

Stay tuned, more to come! There may even be an Apooka update in the near future!

Motor City Comic Con

Well day one of Motor City Comic Con is in the books. Pretty good crowd for a Friday. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! Come visit Joe Foo and myself at Table 2053. Here's some sketches I did at the show, apologies in advance for the poor iphone camera quality.

Supergirl
Niko Fett (Hopefully I spelled that correct)
Han Solo taking out the trash
Hula Apooka!

Happy Mother's Day / Post FREE Comic Book Day / Pre Motor City Comic Con

Apooka's excited. Aren't you?!

Happy Mother's Day to all you motha's out there! Kids, show your mother some respect today and everyday!

Hope everybody got their free comics yesterday! We had a great time at Green Brain Comics yesterday. Thanks Dan and Katie for having us, you certainly know how to throw a great party, I'm still not sure what was in that bottled beverage you gave me. I was fortunate enough to share FCBD table space with artists Jerzy Drozd, Mark Rudolph, Christian Slade and Jesse Rubenfeld. Real nice group of people, heck, even that Jerzy guy! Just kiddin' Jerz, keep up the great work! And thank you to Nancy for the nice plaques, we loved em!

Finally, Motor City Comic Con is next weekend. Yeah I know that came up fast. So if you're in the neigborhood please stop by and say "hi" to myself and Joe Foo. We look forward to it! I'm not sure where exactly we will be, we don't have the floorplan yet. Hopefully we'll get that up in the next post. Hope everybody has a great week and Happy Mother's Day!

Joe Foo's cool poster for Motor City Comic Con!