#sdcc 2012

[perceiving-misha]

This is the face of a man who is extremely pleased with himself 😂

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[centurieslove]

colin buff morgan in 2012 comic con: exists

us on our little blogs:

[adhd-merlin]

obsessed with colin morgan's 2012 san diego comic con looks. like why was he looking so hot. what was the plan there

[kavabezcukru]

Jensen and Misha caressing each other’s cheeks is so sweet

[smeagles]

Gerard Way moderates the Aquabats panel at SDCC 2012

[selenadrawsstuff]

I have a Frankenweenie autograph from the voice actor Atticus Shaffer, he voices one of the films main characters, Edgar E Gore!! I love it so much, it makes me so happy!😭🥹

[monsterhighdiaries]

Hoodude’s SDCC Diary - 20 of October

I'm still learning how my voodoo powers work and why they affect some monsters but not others, but I think it has something to do with having, in my possession, something that belongs to the person being affected. Take Manny Taur for an example. One day I was talking to Scarah about Frankie in the lunchroom, and Manny was sitting at the table behind us. He must have been listening in to what I was saying because when he got up to leave, he flipped a coin at me and told me to call some monster who cared. "Whatever," I thought, and I put the coin in my pocket. Later that day, I was standing at my locker, and Robecca tapped me on the shoulder, "I think you dropped this," and she handed me one of my pins. Manny happened to be walking by when I stuck the pin back into my arm. He bellowed and grabbed his arm in the same place I had stuck the pin. I waited for him to get a little further down the hall and I did it again--I know, mean--and I got the same result. In my next class, I had to borrow a pencil from Heath Burns. One of the pins in my left leg was caught on my seat, so I switched it to my right leg, causing Heath to jump up and scream, "Something bit me!" Then I scraped the pin very slowly across the back of my neck, and Heath started slapping his neck like something was crawling there. I gave him back his pencil and stuck the pin back in my leg--no effect. I'm keeping the coin Manny gave me...just in case.

[the-gory-gazette]

July 09

July 09, 2012

Honor student Ghoulia Yelps knew at a young age that she was created to be DeadFast's number one fan.

"I picked up a copy of DeadFast #7 and I was hooked," Ghoulia explained as she sipped on her Coffin Bean coffinccino during our exclusive sit down interview. Her demeanor was unusually perky for the slow to thrill zombie, so I knew she was more than excited to talk about her biggest hero. "My mom has been purchasing the comic for me ever since I was young. I really do believe it was her nurturing that allowed me to explore my love not only of DeadFast, but of comic books in general."

Last year, Yelps was lucky enough to capture a coveted ticket to the dead-lightful San Diego Comic-Con, where she was able to explore her geek-chic roots among monsters and friends.

"Comic-Con was like no other," she gushed. Her coffee was pushed aside, her hands now occupied with doodling a picture of DeadFast on her napkin. "I'm uhhhn-believably excited to go again this year. Scarah and HooDude will be with me, front row at the Monster High panel, so I've been spending the past few weeks giving them tips about what to do, where to go and who to see while we're there."

Though not all of her friends will be able to make it down to SDCC, she assures that all will have an opportunity to stay tuned in to the latest Comic-Con news and gossip. “The Monster High administration is great about keeping student bodies informed of all the happenings at SDCC,” she said as she handed me her uhhh-mazing napkin doodle. "Would you like to keep this? I hope you like DeadFast as much as I do."

Who am I to pass up a Ghoulia Yelps original?

[g4zdtechtv]

THE PILE PRESENTS: X-Play - Peyton Manning Becomes the Tomb Raider | 6.26.12

Completely free of arrests (so far).

[nessarolla-in-constant-flux]

'Turtles Take Time (and Space) 🌎' by Brandon Auman

I feel a little let down by the TMNT fandom for not having these little cuties posted everywhere are you kidding me!? 💙🧡💜❤️

They are soo cute! I wish there was more but the whole short is soooo good!

I also recommend 'Don vs. Raph' by Jhonen Vasquez it's very good!

[thatvalvefanatic]

Photos of Cave and Caroline's face models, former Valve employees Bill Fletcher and Laura Dubuk, in character because these photos are actually my favorite thing ever and I have way too many.

These are from SDCC 2012

(There are more than this btw!!!! Most were posted to the hl/portal/combine wikis and also the Neca Facebook page!!! I recommend going on the quest to find them like I did because <3)

[fashiondolloftheday]

Do you have any pictures of any of the SDCC exclusive Winx dolls, or just convention exclusive dolls in general? I just think they’re neat ^^

today's fashion dolls are: Winx San Diego Comic Con Exclusive Gold Believix Bloom, Blue Believix Bloom, and Silver Believix Bloom (2012)

[adhd-merlin]

2012 Colin Morgan hits different

[mayakern]

hello!! if you don't mind me asking, what was your professional art journey like? (esp the earlier years) was MonsterPop! your first big project online? were you still taking client work when you opened up your shop? you're a very inspiring artist and I hope to be in a similar position as you one day! thank you so much for your time!

oh boy this is a doozy! and also a lot of this involves devin bc our success is completely intertwined

i went to art school (MCAD) from 2009-2013. i majored in comic art but had a secondary unofficial focus in illustration, specifically product design, and i interned at paper bicycle (the company of my product design teacher) my senior year, the same year they opened up light grey art lab. i mailed out a LOT of tarot decks. they didn't have a label printer so this took forever.

during that time i took some freelance illustration and comic gigs and also created some comics that got an amount of traction online (mostly on tumblr but i also got an io9 article written about me iirc). i also started making monsterpop (in 2012 i think?).

in 2012 i ran my first kickstarter to crowdfund an anthology of some of my short comics (how to be a mermaid, the little robot girl, fairyfail) and got my first taste of proper self publishing. sadly this was before i created redden (which was my senior thesis comic) so it wasn't included. i didn't have label printer so mailing out the books (i think i sold around 200) took forever and i ended up throwing a pizza party with my friends and having them help me.

after graduating i moved to the LA area in search of work. it honestly sucked ass and most things didn't pan out but eventually (2014) i got a remote job contracting for gaiaonline and i moved right back to minnesota bc i absolutely hated LA.

i met devin (my wife) 20 days after moving back to minneapolis. in 2015 i ran a kickstarter to fund printing the first volume of monsterpop and people bought almost 400 books. it was insane. i was dying under the stress of trying to mail it all out those packages and didn't own a label printer yet. between having to hand write the addresses, being both dyslexic AND slow, and getting headaches from the fumes, i could send out a max of like 10 packages a day. once again i was planning to throw another pizza party to have my friends help me out, but devin swooped in and got 100 packages done in just a couple hours and when i tell you that no one has ever done anything sexier for me in my life, i truly mean it.

at the time devin and i were both broke living paycheck to paycheck. gaia didn't pay well and the patreon money i got helped, but wasn't that much. i took some freelance/commissions and got some store and convention sales, but i was making around 22-26k and was constantly overworked. devin was in significant credit card debt and was barely scraping by between managing a gas station and school. i started making my very first skirts and then at the end of 2015 my arm, the thing that made me what little money i did make, gave out.

i couldn't draw anymore. this could have literally ended my art career, but instead devin stepped up. they took a look at all the things i was already selling in my store and figured out a way to repackage/bundle the items together in a way that was fun and appealing. and people actually bought the bundles! at that point the vast majority of my sales were at conventions and i wasn't very good at selling online, but that was the beginning of a new era. devin started working with me part time to manage the online store and go with me to conventions and things started getting better. at some point during this saga we finally bought a goddamn label printer.

by 2017 devin started working with me full time. we also got married and moved across the country to upstate NY. in 2018 we got a CPA and became an SCORP and monsterpop became a finalist for the prism comics award, which scored me an invite as a guest at SDCC. i really wish i had enjoyed that experience, but unfortunately i was dealing with some Bad Medication Issues and was extremely sick the whole weekend. otherwise it was great tho and devin had enough fun for the both of us. this is also around when i officially stopped taking freelance work. prior to that i'd only been taking a couple jobs a year, but the store was finally making enough that i could stop.

in 2019 i made the difficult decision to end monsterpop. this came with a lot of heartache but it was the right thing to do. i am much better now for it. i think 2019 is also when we became an SCORP.

we hired our first employee (lindsy) in, i think 2021. it might have been the end of 2020. and in 2022 we hired our second employee (ariel), who had been modeling for us already for a couple years bc she is our very close friend and actually the reason we moved out to NY in the first place. in late 2022 we started working with ash, who now manages our product supply chain and also is patterning new garments for us.

there's probably a bunch of stuff i've missed but this is roughly it! neither devin nor i were able to succeed until we started working together. our strengths and weaknesses complimented each other well and somehow things just worked out.

and if you take away nothing else from this, please leave with this info: if you sell and ship any amount of product online buy a goddamn label printer

[homenecromancer]

I was bored so here's a roundup of Maximum Ride stuff on eBay. I am not associated with any of these sellers; I share this stuff as a curiosity. Just putting that out there. Listing links are below.

Some of these items are things I've posted before, but a couple are genuinely new -- like the postcard and paper dolls.

The Angel Experiment Advance Reading Copy

MRUK broomstick postcard

SDCC 2012 temporary tattoos:

MAX / FANG logo

logos, wings, silhouettes

NYCC 2015 poster

NYCC FANG pin

Marvel comic poster:

first listing

second listing

Marvel comic paper doll

[selenadrawsstuff]

The second Edgar E Gore autograph from his voice actor, Atticus Shaffer! 😁