I'm not exaggerating when I say my bud, cajunfox and his crew know how to put on a helluva con.

Condition is a small, young convention, this weekend having been the fourth such con. Normally, pretty under the radar, except that it is literally in my hometown, and run by my local gang of friends that I've known for like, a decade (damn, it's been that long?), so naturally, I've got nothing to lose when it comes to attending. I could literally take a city bus to it.

So, I dropped in this year again, having missed most of the fun last year due to work and my health problems. This year they were doin this post-apoc theme. The guys have this running storyline (I LOVE cons with a story behind the theme) that recently involved a nuclear-powered still (few people love booze quite as much as Cajun) that had gone critical and blew up. This tied into the ever-popular assassin game and nerf wars they have every year, as well as the guys distributing canteens to the super-sponsors (they've always got something awesome for them) and even having rewards for collecting faction bottlecaps from the faction leaders for various deeds and whatnot. Basically, they're a LOT more engaging and fun than, like, every other con I've gone to. And a LOT of peeps were walkin around in post-apoc costumes, which was also awesome as hell.

Now, as for little ol' me, I spent a good chunk of the con either workin' my ass off in the dealer's room (with a LOT of other artists, like GoH caltroplay, missmab, maxblackrabbit and other GoH eevachu, to name a few) or chillin in the pool. It was the first time in like, ten years I'd gone swimming, mostly because I actually remembered my swim trunks this time. I managed to arrange a few trades and commissions (yes, I occasionally commission peeps I REALLY dig, it's just not very often. Gotta reward yerself sometimes, y'know?). I actually got pretty much exclusively work done of my new character, Pond, whom I'm slowly working on a proper reference for before I start posting her on here (peeps on twitter probably remember seeing the rough ref I did a while back, the blue squirrel chick). I'm VERY satisfied with what I managed to get thus far. Once again, thanks maxblackrabbit, sererena and goin back to Anthrocon, gunmouth, you guys are awesome.

Next year's theme for Condition is Monsters!, which, if you ask me, is pretty freakin' sweet. I totally recommend peeps get their butts to the next Condition. Here's the site http://www.conditionfurry.ca which I'm sure they'll update very soon...after they wake up from all the booze. Good gawd do they ever serve and drink a lot of booze. I dare you to find a more alcohol-fueled con, it's kinda completely awesome

I'll be posting in a couple days about my plans for FA:U in detail. Well, as much detail as I can muster, seeing as I don't have a ton of details about it yet, except that I've done some SWEET ASS ART for them (just a little preview) and I just realized I've got less than ten days to finish up my material for my panel on tech stuff, so my little hiatus is probably going to continue til at least after FA:U

Til then, toodles!



COMMISSIONS (the fullsize huge ones)
1/ Rogern (inked, restarting colour)
2/ 9Lion (pencilled, plus one other)
3/ Mechaman
4/ Chazore
5/ Sandalf
6/ yutrah (inked)
7/ rageki
8/ Twitch The Dragon
9/ dragonfireny (inked)
10/ Kipeo
11/ Opeoaslam