Sara Ryan

I was burned out on the notion of writing a con report until I thought of doing haikus.
Then the whole gang got into it. Here are some of mine:
Loud fight with girlfriend
turns into performance art
when you’re cosplaying.
Warren Ellis said
He wanted to have me killed
Most effective blurb.
We’re webcomics fans
We’re not used to paying for
Anything we read.
He [...]

Hey didn’t we just do this? Yes we did. (Relatively speaking.) Here we go…
Cannot believe how many people managed to cram into Cosmic Monkey for the trophy awards & Comic Art Battle. I was happy to meet Matt Silady and Kirsten Baldock (comics writer, librarian, and bartender — I knew we’d get along) and Jason [...]

This weekend, as many of my readers doubtless know, is the Stumptown Comics Fest. I will totally be there. With comics. Because, comics. But also novels. Because, novels. You should come. And thanks, Steve Duin, for the kind words in Seven Reasons To Love Stumptown!
In other news, Comic Book Tattoo is now up for preorder [...]

Convention season, that is. I just went through my calendar for the rest of the year (!) and put in the dates of the shows I’m planning to attend.
Stumptown (April 26-27, Portland, OR)
Emerald City (May 10-11, Seattle, WA)
American Library Association (June 26-July 2, Anaheim, CA)
San Diego Comic-Con (July 24-27, in, you guessed it, San Diego, [...]

…unsullied by spam, but I haven’t done the full upgrade to my WordPress software yet. Please email or comment if you see more evidence of spam in the posts, because rest assured that I have NOT decided that my blog would be a fine vehicle for promoting spammers’ sordid wares, or warez, as the case [...]

My apologies to anyone who clicked the “More” link on my last post and ran into a whole bunch of super creepy links. I haven’t figured out how the hack worked, but it was indeed a hack. Ew. I probably need to upgrade my WordPress.

Folks have been blogging about the new Borders “concept stores,” [...]

I’ll be sharing a table with Mr. Lieber in Artists’ Alley, # AA10 according to the website.
I will have comics and stickers and books. I’ll be there Saturday and Sunday. I hope to see some of y’all there!

Check out the new site for Periscope Studio, the product of a whole lot of WordPress customizing and tweaking, not to mention some sleepless nights on the part of at least one studio member. I think it looks pretty darn snazzy. But if you see anything wonky, use their contact form to let them know.

Handy Tip, courtesy of Shannon Hale and Libba Bray: If you’re in a restaurant and you are in a hurry because you have a signing to get to, use the ketchup bottle as a microphone and begin singing an improvised version of “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” with lyrics such as  “And I need to OR-DER [...]

Hey, everybody. It’s been a while.
Man.
You go away from easy Internet access for a week and somebody hacks your dang MySpace. For any of y’all who got bulletins from “me” alerting you to the latest horizontal hijinks of a young lady who I will not name, who is famous for being famous, please accept my [...]