Jerry and Bill arrived safely in San Francisco for the final stop on our Lucha Libre comic signing tour. The infamous owner of Isotope (James Sime) kindly requested that Bill decorate one of Isotope's legendary toilet seat covers. Is it me, or does Bill look mighty happy? Must be something in the San Francisco air...

It's been a wild adventure since Bill arrived a little over a week ago. Now we're at the tail end of our West Coast Signing Tour. This will be Bill's last US signing of the year. So if you're in the Bay Area, you better be damned sure to make it!

Bill's last signing will be at San Francisco's Neon Monster Comics & Designer Toy shop from 4:00pm to 7:30pm. You'll get a free gorgeous sketch with any purchase of a Lucha Libre comic and/or Muttpop Toy.

NeonMonster
www.neonmonster.com
Comics, Records, Designer Toys & Art
901 Castro Street (at 22nd Street)
San Francisco, CA 94114

415-206-9644

Bill, Jerry, and I were at the San Diego Comicon on Friday and Saturday. Good times. It was super cool to catch up with the Muttpop fans. Tons of super cool folks who were lucky enough to walk away with some amazing sketches by Bill.

San Diego weather is always nice. And the crowd's energy brought us all to a frenzy. I pretty much gave in to the sensory overload. There was too much to take in... but I enjoyed what I could. I really dug some of the new Transformer Animated toys (damn, should have taken some photos). I also picked up that amazing Martin Ontiveros X Gargamel Oni Ojo figure, the Gold Deatbot (I still like my OG Deathbot more), and a Tokidoki Sandy plush for my girlfriend.

Taking part in the Eisner Awards was pretty cool. It was surreal seeing Samuel Jackson give out an Eisner. It just goes to show how much San Diego Comicon has become an extenson of Hollywood. Despite that, it was pleasant to see, hear, and feel that the overall vibe of the Eisners is "make good comics". Forget that lustre of hollywood and just focus on making some damned good comics that people can enjoy. I like that (and hope we are successful at doing it). I was super happy to see Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon clean up the Eisners. I love what they did on Casanova, Umbrella Academy, and 5.

We didn't win for "Best Humor Publication"... but at least the guy that did had a funny acceptance speech (made the hurt go down a little easier). And it got me inspired to focus on reaching out the the comic community. We've been a bit slow at reaching out to the comics community and they still gave us props. Now I'm inspired to reach out to them and fight with them in the trenches. Thanks!

Man, we have Bill working hard. And miraculously he's still killing folks with his amazing sketches! Having settled back in Los Angeles, we joined a bunch of other comic creators over at the Golden Apple Store in Hollywood on Wednesday for a pre-SDCC celebration. Ryan and the Golden Apple staff started things off right with some brewskies and pizza. You can never go wrong with some hiene and cheese pizza! Bill continued to make us look good with his mad drawing skillz.

Somehow we managed to pull off a comic book signing after 2 days of Las Vegas partying. Derek and his amazing staff at Comic Oasis were awesome. You can tell that the store was built with the love of a true fan. They all did a wonderful job of having us feel instantly at home.

Wow. Came back from my Bachelor Party on Sunday evening... but I haven't been feeling quite right until today.

Vegas is a very bad place! My best man, Chuck, set us all up at a VIP Suite at the Mirage. A total of 17 buddies came out over the course of 2 days.

I consider Friday the "ugly" side of my Bachelor Party and Saturday the "beautiful" side.

After a bit of a strong pre-party in the hotel room, we went downstairs to the Jet Club. It happened to be the same night as Celtic's Paul Pierce's celebration. The night involved far too many drinks in far too little time with a bunch of bachelorette parties. Let's just say that by 12am, I was kicked out of the club as a result of the mess I made at our table. My buddies had to carry me out of the club as I partook on a "walk of shame" back to my hotel suite. Fortunately, I don't remember any of that. What I do remember is waking up curled up on the toilet room floor. Like I said: UGLY.

Somehow I managed to wake up on Saturday feeling pretty good. I was a little dizzy and queasy, but felt really good considering what I had put my body through the night before. We started off the day at Tao Beach. Tao Beach was ridiculous! I have never seen so many beautiful people in one place in my entire life. And everyone was having an awesome time drinking, getting tan, and mingling in a day pool amidst some of the dopest DJ mixing I've heard since DJ Z-trip. I kept my drinking to $12 bottled water (no joke)... which helped get me back to my norm. I wasn't feeling completely right until the DJ pulled out some crazy mix where he started with Estelle's "American Boy", mixed that seamlessly with Daft Punk "Around the World", then some Outkast, and finished it off with some Gorillaz. Somehow that specific mix revitalized me and told me that I was in for one helluva a beautiful Saturday.

We ended our evening at Wynn's Club Tryst. Some super cool ladies we met up at Tao decided to meet up with us at Tryst, which was a pleasant surprise. We ended up drinking, dancing, and chilling to nights end. A perfect way to end 2 nights of debauchery.

Shockingly, no Strip Clubs were a part of my celebration. A few of my boys ended up going, but I was either too messed up or having too much fun at the club to go.

On Sunday, Bill and Jerry joined me for a comic signing at Comic Oasis. I'll give my spin on that later.

Pics below are from the more sober parts of Friday.