We are back from ECCC, and there is so much to say I don't know where to begin. Thank you to everybody who came by, gave me awesome things to draw, and bought our book - you made our weekend the awesomeness that it was. And a special thank you to Brent for letting me crash on his floor Friday night, and to Art, who kept me fed, gave me a place to sleep the other nights, and got me the coolest damn piece of original Giles art basically ever!

So, first thing first, there is a new button up there on the links bar - The Frederick Shoppe! There, you can buy the new book, request a fine historical sketch, or for the discerning client, do both at the same time! Everybody wins! Check it out!

Second thing second, I came across a ton of great, great stuff at the con that are worth your checking out. I'll go into more detail about all that on Thursday when I have a chance to get through my whole pile, which would go a lot faster if I didn't just keep reading Axe Cop over and over...

Third thing third: A few people requested sketches at the con that I did not get a chance to finish but that I have no mailing address for. Here are all the sketches that I am working on and have an address for. If you know you requested something and it's not on here, send me an email at TheCount@ftg-comic.com and we'll find a way to get that on over to you! For those on the list, I'm trying to do about 4 to 6 of these a day, so at the latest expect them late next week! Okay, here's what's in the queue, in no particular order:

1 Nikola Tesla Cuddling Gertrude Stein
2 Rosalind Franklin & DNA Chain
3 Elizabeth I punching Walter Raleigh
4 William H. Taft
5 Shakespeare on Fire with Broken Limb
6 Andrew Jackson Duel
7 Theodore Roosevelt Grocery Store
8 Chester Arthur Pole Vault
9 Spike Riding Coffin like in Once More With Feeling
10 Crowley & Victoria sharing Milkshake
11 Diego Forlan fighting an ice cream cone.
12 Franklin Pierce & The Lady
13 George Washington - Awesome!
14 Ghandi vs. the Vikings
15 Nikolai Tesla on Velociraptor
16 Moore & Jabba
17 Virginia Woolf Kicking Someone
18 Teddy Roosevelt Laying Shit Out
19 Hello Kitty Dreaming of Hitler’s Disembodied Head
20 Taft Fighting Anthropomorphic Bathtub
21 Giant Ants Take Over Village
22 Thomas Jefferson Boxing John Adams
23 Chuck Yeager Kicking Bird in Nuts
24 Bush Graffiti
25 Aquaman fighting Pac Man Ghost and Boo from Mario in Space

Okay, Thursday check on back for a grand roundup of awesome convention things! And a buncha scans!

- Count Dolby von Luckner

Emerald City Comicon has come and gone.

I had a grand time talking to people, dressed in my 18th-century-esque finery and getting mistaken for Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or Fake Thomas Jefferson.

I do believe I dazzled one mother and son into a book sale when they asked me about the lyrics to "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" and I basically just busted those tight rhymes right out.

I am still in the decompression phase, but I'll get some links to neat stuff posted later in the week. (And hey, that way they'll be on the front page all weekend!)

--Geoff