Aaaah. Back from the massive nerdage of Comicon in San Diego. I’m still recovering, and I have to say that quite honestly, this event is way too geeky for me. I really can’t understand hordes of people who painstakingly dress as their favorite characters. But they are always welcome here.

I was at the event with my client Dee to shop around a particular project we’re working on. I’ll talk more about that in another post, but feedback was positive and we’ll be following up with several publishers and perhaps even a studio for our comic idea. I also managed to pick up a few books, but again, that will be another post.

For now, here are some photos. I forgot my camera in the chaos of preparing, so these are taken with my iphone. Didn’t have as much time for picture taking since we were on a mission…

Don’t know who these guys are, but I had to start somewhere.

Lego Leia and Lego Maul

Random Wolfman

Giant Ugly Dolls! And you can see part of the new and improved Castle Greyskull in the background. There was a giant statue of a new and improved He-Man as well. He lost the prince Valiant hairdo.

You can take a picture riding the unicorn from Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Blurry Corey Feldman!

Blurry Corey Feldman #2!

Spikey fans.

Tried to get one of the few Jack Sparrows lolling about.

What the heck is Bob’s Big Boy doing at Comicon?

Not just 1, but 4! Count’em 4 Sexy Jesus’! By far these guys were my favorite. I love you Jesus!

Ah, the Tonight Show babes interviewing a hapless geek on air.

You know what they say about the size of a man’s sword.

Huh??????

All right gang, this is it. (I will stand my ground and say that my 2 readers formally constitute a gang!) The Totoro Forest Project is now formally being announced and the organizers have created this nifty website that will tell you all about it in more detail. Above is my framed contribution to this great cause.

In quick summary, this will be a charity auction to help save the “Totoro Forest” in Japan which was the inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece “My Neighbor Totoro.” The auction will take place at Pixar Animation Studios on September 6th. But please make sure to visit the website for the full details, since there is so much more, including a book cataloging the event and all the art, and an exclusive exhibition at the Cartoon Art Museum!

The website is not fully complete as they still need to get some more artwork and artist bios up there, but it should be filling up soon. I learned that, like my own piece, some of the artist’s scans weren’t so great and so they are taking the time to re-photo or scan those paintings for better quality. My big thanks to Yukino Pang of the Asian Art Museum who told me she could arrange to have a higher quality photo taken of mine.

Another big thank you goes to my friend Dice Tsutsumi, art director at Pixar, who invited me to participate. I am truly thankful, and am deeply in awe of all the artists that are participating.