Hippity Hop

Thursday night went with Beau to Showbox SoDo to check out N.E.R.D. and Common. Pretty bomb show, N.E.R.D. was up first:



Afterwards Common came out and rocked it:



For a few songs, Pharrell came out and backed up Common:



Common ended his set, then came back out for a hugely long like 40-minute encore:



Super high energy, good venue, all in all, pretty sweet.

Also, it's totally my birthday, which means I have 31 years of awesomeness under my belt (and counting :) as of today. Off to celebrate by consuming awesome food, going bowling and eating cake.

Why Comics?

Why do comics? That's something I ask myself a lot. My answer? Because I love 'em and it makes me happy, plain and simple.

I never got in to comics for money. I could have been making way more money in the high tech field that I left to get in to comics, no question.

At what price, though? Happiness? I never found myself particularly happy designing some website or creating some code for random tech companies in Seattle. Well paying? Sure. Satisfying? Not really.

These days I've got a dozen projects on my plate, from comics to graphic novels to Emerald City to vinyl toys to webcomics to video game projects to half a dozen other things. I'm not sure which to get to first and I can't wait to get to the ones that I'm not working on.

You can't put a price on that, it fucking rules.

Eisner Award winner Fabio Moon asks some fellow creators (Matt Fraction, Ivan Brandon, Grampá, Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá and Dave Stewart) the question "Why Comics?" Here are their answers:

I want to blog...

...but my life is a combination of boring and busy, so I'm not.

Sorry, okay?

Hugs,

Jim

D'oh!

It was Don Lafontaine who passed away, not Hal Douglas...