The bulk of this year’s TCAF haul. I also have some other Taiyō Matsumoto stuff, such as a signed program and his beautiful TCAF poster, along with some more cool-looking comics that super cool people gave me, but this is what I managed to fit onto the table. I’m very excited to dive into all this throughout the week.
I had an absolute blast this year with Spera tablemates Afu Chan, Kyla Vanderklugt and Polly Guo. It was also great meeting such amazing artists and good friends as Don Cocor, Rebecca Mock, Alice Zheng and Tyler Landry for the first time. I even had fun finding ridiculous TV shows each night with hotelmates Afu, Polly and Victoria Grace Elliott.
TCAF this year was an unbelievable amount of fun from start to finish. I can’t help but already be excited about the next!
I put up some older tracks on bandcamp. Some of these are almost two years old, some are newer. There’s also some of the music I did for Atelier Sento’s and Josh Tierney’s film ‘3 Old Gods’ on here.
The thing is called Slow Rock. The cover is a Dore engraving from Paradise Lost.
A few tracks here are from the 3 Old Gods soundtrack, our short film written by Josh Tierney and shot in Japan.
Giannis did a wonderful job: his music added a new dimension to the shots.
You can watch the film on Youtube: here.And don’t forget to play Giannis’ other albums on bandcamp.
We often listen them when working: they are good for inspiration!
So today we got our socks blown off by some of the greatest fan mail we have ever received here at Archaia. No, these staggeringly awesome pages of art are not ripped from the Cursed Pirate Girl book, but are instead a thank you letter from Daniel Ginex for sending him a few of our titles. Daniel is a librarian and teacher at Near North Montessori School in Chicago, which is where our Editor-in-Chief went to grade school growing up. Daniel is an incredibly accomplished artist in his own right (as you can see from his illustrations here) and we’ve been proud to help Near North’s library build up a nice little collection of Archaia graphic novels for the kids who go to school there. Daniel, thank you for the support, and keep drawing!
Wow!
holla to polly and josh and afu for dinner on saturday after TCAF
you guys are the coolest (｀u´)///
Aah! This is one of the coolest things I could come home from TCAF to. Afu is actually around the same height as me, though I did expect him to be shorter based on one of his self-portraits.
Thanks, Alice! I had a great time finally meeting you & hangin’ out with everyone!
Wow! 800 followers! Thanks everyone for checking out this Tumblr. If you’re following due to Spera, please know there should be quite a bit of news by the end of the month! (And if you see me at TCAF this weekend, I’ll probably go ahead and tell you about it there.)
Oh, and we also have a Spera Facebook page going for those who like to Like things.
Spera will be at TCAF!
Afu Chan, Kyla Vanderklugt, Polly Guo and I can be found at table 258, located on the upper floor in the Owlkids section. We will have copies of both Vol. 1 & 2, the Glass Flowers Special, free postcards and one or two surprises.
If you’re looking to score even more signatures for Vol. 2, Kris Mukai will be at table 244, while Roman Muradov can be located in the Wowee Zonk Small Press Showcase.
TCAF takes place this weekend during May 11th (9am-5pm) and 12th (11am-5pm) at the Toronto Reference Library. Admission is free.
Dragon’s Dogma
Giannis Milonogiannis fan art of one of my favourite games (I’m currently playing the Dark Arisen expansion). So cool how I can recognise every piece of equipment here.
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