Category: convention
May 14, 2014
Texas Frightmare Weekend
A little late, but I wanted to share some of the fantastic costumes I saw two weekends back at Texas Frightmare. Honestly, there were dozens more I wish I had pictures of, because even the hotel staff was getting into the spirit.
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The Krampus Society, a group of folks who are much nicer than they look |
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Six Shooter from the Puppet Master movies |
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My second favorite Jigsaw of the weekend (Lindsey in the hotel bar was amazing) |
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El Santo is secretly zombie author Bowie Ibarra (no, really–I didn’t believe it either) |
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Hands down, best costume I saw all weekend |
Fantastic con, possibly even better than it was last year. Met tons of fans, maybe even created a few new ones. A good time was had by all.
July 26, 2013 / 1 Comment
Comic Con Recap

So here are a few of the random high points, as I remember them. And a couple pictures of random folks/things, too, just so you’ll keep scrolling down.


Thursday—The first full day of Comic-Con, and I had free reign for most of it. I wandered a lot. Made another run for Webarella, but they’d sold out of their day’s allotment in under an hour. Doubly frustrating when you saw all the folks walking around with shopping bags full of the dolls.
Checked out lots of booths. Had lunch with Rick Marson, creator of ZOMS and Katie Cord of Evil Girlfriend Media. Later in the day I met Bill Barnes who draws the Unshelved comic strip (they did a fun Ex-Heroesreview in comic-strip form a few months back).

Friday – I got to check into my room at the Hyatt. There are definite perks to being a big press author. It was also nice to have a place to dump things. And then I got to go find that Webarella had sold out again. Saw a jackass offering to sell them at 400% markup right there at the con.

It was very nice to just take an elevator back to the room after all that, kick off my shoes, and scribble a few story notes on my legal pad.
Saturday – My last attempt to get Webarella met in failure. Con security finally decided to stop other vendors from lining up before the doors open , but they only did a half assed job at it so vendors just lurked in the area. And then doors opened and Mattel announced they’d changed their criteria, too—no selling to vendors (so my badge is now preventing me from getting the doll). I slink back to the Crown booth, broken and defeated.

Finished up the day having drinks with my agent and editor, talking about future projects. Then ended up having more drinks at the Top of the Hyatt until… way too late. Again, thank God the hotel room was right there.


Monday –I watched a few countdowns on the Chiller channel with my friend Marc while we talked about geeky stuff, ate lunch, and then I drove home to Los Angeles. There was, thankfully, much less traffic than there was heading down
And now I can’t wait until next year…