Sean Azzopardi

This is my last Angouleme 2012 post finishing a week after the festival closed. This is a Sketch of Chris Ware, from memory as he didn’t make it to the festival.
I also wrote a blog post for FP and it can be read here.
Time to be getting on with new stuff and preparations for TCAF.

After the Saturday events our happy group went for a meal and we were provided with brown paper place-mats. Naturally the pens and pencils came out and we personalised them. I was trying to describe to Sally anne what Charles Burns looked like as we failed to get into his talk. This was from memory as i saw him briefly stop by to talk to Chris and Tom at the Adhouse table.
We didn’t pay for the bill with our sketches, sadly.

As ever i’m eating breakfast and trying to get ready for work and ideas are forming in my old brain sac.
This morning i tweeted about how i’ve handed out a stack of comics and mailed out stuff over the last ten years and received very little response. It was a moment of needy weakness. This will happen again i’m sure as i slowly withdraw from the convention jamboree.
But i’ve been thinking, why do i do it? Why do hand comics to publishers, hand them to cartoonists i really admire.
What am i expecting?
Well the publishers the answer is obvious. So are the conclusions reached after ten years. Publishers are busy and if in this era of the comic book no-one replies, then it’s safe to say your work is not considered a commercial option.
Fine, move along keep making keep publishing enjoy what develops.
Handing comics to cartoonist you admire. I do this so much. Why? What do i expect? In the early days i hoped that my genius shined so bright that i would be taken onboard for an apprenticeship and the future would be a an oasis of creativity discovery.
Or some such bollocks.
Then it was a way of saying ‘I do this too, i am one of you’.

I still do this but it’s more of a way of describing my work, as in this is the type of comic i make.
Afterwards i feel awful, and think, ‘Why did i do that again?’.

It is Angouleme in a few weeks and i will be there with my friends. We have a table again.
This year is going to be different for me, i’m not handing stuff out and will enjoy the festival instead.
Afterwards i wont be sitting at my computer waiting for the mail.

I love going to Thought Bubble and this year is going to be amazing. I will be sharing a table (134) with Joe Decie, which will also be fab. Attending yearly events is a good way of assessing how much work has been produced since the previous con. New in comparison to last year will Be Ed, Built of Bricks and blood, Nine Months of Beige, Eight Tablet Dream and paper Science 6. Not bad, i have to say.
Some previous TB photos.

I have finished my new mini, Eight Tablet Dream and it is somewhere in a copy shop. It may be ready for Comiket, but probably Leeds will see it’s debut. It’s a comic that is similar to Nine Months Of Beige, and a 100 Days Of Winter. I’m happy with the work in this one, will be interesting to see the finished comic.

I will be at Comiket this weekend ( Saturday 12th). Full details here.
Previous Comiket photos here. Paul and Peter do an excellent job with Comica, and Comiket has a great social vibe, lots of my current comic buds were met at the early ones.
Should be a great day.

This weekend will find me hosting a table in Comics Village at MCM expo. The comics section has grown each year and so has the number of people attending it. I really enjoy this event and there is always the brilliant variety of cosplay.

This is part of a page from Eight tablet dream. The woosh sound graphic is a correct summery of how fast the time has moved for this project. All the pages are drawn, now lettering and tone are on the list. The idea was to have it available for MCM but the real deadline is Thought Bubble. Fingers crossed.
Yes! returning to Malta comic con this year. Seems like they have grown the event again, and the list of guests. Looking forward to this.
I wrote a small article for the Forbidden Planet blog about the exhibition at Flashback.