So I'm finally recovered from APE last weekend... What an amazing weekend! I'm always kind of a pessimist, so I fully expected everything to crash and burn horribly. And granted, it could well have, because we naturally realized at the last minute that we weren't nearly as well prepared for the whole shebang as we thought we were! Still, it was a good day. Lots of folks stopped by the booth, and they mostly seemed to really dig the book. Best of all, a number of other cartoonists, including Stephen Notley of Bob the Angry Flower, Keith Knight of The K Chronicles, and Mary Fleener of Slutburger, bought copies and all seemed to enjoy it!  mitti and  relaxingdragon1, who happen to be among our Kickstarter backers, also came by and got their compy copies, and they were both very amused. I was blown away by the positive reaction! It was especially great when someone stopped by, looked at the book and IMMEDIATELY understood the joke. Most of the people that got the joke really appreciated it and that was really gratifying. You never know how people will react and, knowing how often people will fly into petty rages over imagined slights on the Internet, it's always a relief when you can interact face to face with people.

This is an uncharacteristically positive journal for me. I feel like I should complain about something just so people will know that this really IS me posting and that I haven't been hacked. Well, we did have ONE guy stop by the booth who really was unclear on the concept. He was apparently trying to get started making a comic of his own and was looking for a book to tell him how to make comics. He kept asking if Misunderstanding Comics would give him the advice he needed and we kept trying to explain that, well, sort of but this isn't an instruction book, it's a parody. He just did NOT get it. He kept going back to "But it'll teach me what to do, right???" Eventually we just decided that we didn't really want him to buy it since it didn't seem like he would benefit from it XD Oh well!

In other uncharacteristically upbeat news, I also think it's almost time that I can announce the other big project that has been keeping me busy and away from FA. I'd announce it here except that I don't want to take away the thunder from the big APE wrap-up thingamagig. I've been mum on this for a long time because I'm always nervous about blurting things out too early, but I think the time is about ripe. I'll be posting about it soon. Here's a hint: It's something that I will probably be able to crosspost with  krampuskind. THINK ABOUT IT.