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

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.

The latest issue of Lucha Libre 5 is now officially in finer comic shops across the US. Below are my comic purchases of the week. Best comic of the week? Lucha Libre Comics 5, of course!

I hate these postcards. It's because of these damned postcards that I was held hostage at Jerry's place at prime Lunch time hours. Luckily, the UPS truck came right as my stomach began it's uncontrollable pangs of hunger. That smile on my face isn't me professing the beauty of the postcards design. It's me thinking, "Delta Taco Carnitas, here I come!".

As I mentioned earlier, in a few months French editions of the Luchadores 5, Tequila and Tikitis comics from our Lucha Libre Anthology will be reprinted in the Hardcover Album Format. This is a big deal for our Frenchie enthusiasts. Being published as a hardcover album is an indirect way of saying, "Well I'll be damned, we've made it into the big leagues!". Why? Don't ask me, I'm no frenchie... but as an in the closet US-bred comic geek (I'm too cool for that crap!), I assume it's all about ritual. For years, French Comic fans have accumulated collections of these massive oversized hardcover comics. Now they can finally purchase our Lucha Libre comics in a form that they deem suitable to sit alongside the other "treasures" of their collection.

Hmmm... so the French comics "standard" is oversized books to be proudly embellished on bookshelves. The US standard are teeny weeny floppy mini-magazines that US collectors hide in polybag condoms and store in white boxes on closet floors. What does that say about the psychological of the French and US comic collector??? On that note, does the same psychology apply to French VS. American Porn? Any reference pictures for this unofficial study are welcome! :-)

Below are the poster designs mustered up by Jerry with some ancient text by yours truly (Muttpop Bob).