Trailer for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Probably the best film I’ve seen this year. My short review here.

Alright, so Expozine was awesome this year. It was two days instead of one, so it was much more relaxed and laid back than last year’s event.

I sat with John Martz, Allene Chomyn, Rachel Costain and Aaron Costain. Johnny and Allene led the way in making some awesome comic jams at our table. The final jam-comics are up on Johnny’s Flickr page. They make me laugh.

I didn’t have any new comics for sale this year. But I was selling prints of my illustrations. I was really happy with the reaction to the prints. The printer allows me to custom print anything now at a very high quality – that means I’ll be taking commissions of illustrations too. So if there’s anything you see in my Flickr gallery or on my blog that you’d like a print of, please email me and we can work out a price.

This year I thought it might be a fun project to a big collage of people from Expozine. My pal, Dany, gave me a huge roll of paper and I started drawing whoever would let me. Each portrait took about four minutes, but I was surprised at how few people were willing to let me draw them. Anyway, the above sketch is the result of my grand project. It’s a couple feet high, but there are way fewer people than I wanted. Rachel and Aaron are in there too.

I prefer Expozine to mainstream comic conventions; because frankly you get to meet a truthful sample of people at something like Expozine. There are families, kids, hipsters, nerds – the same mix you’d see walking down the sidewalk in Montreal.

Really nice to see everyone and get away from my computer/drawing table for the week-end. Congratulations and thanks to Billy Mavreas and Louis Rastelli for another great event.