The Sad Circus by the Sea

So the 28th, was Tavisha's 40th Birthday ...

... And I took her someplace nice in Azeroth.

Here's a nice summery of Tavisha's life thus far:

Tavisha at 1. The Frankensteinial years.

At 3. The ... messy years.

We'll skip the Adam Ant years.

At 20. The boy years.

At 23. The model years.

At 24. The preternatural years.

We'll skip the Robotech, Reality Check!, & Sushi Girl Years.

At 34. The Ranklechick years.

At 35. The ZIM years.

At 36. The preparing-for-something-new years.

At 37. The ShutterBox years.

At 40. Now.

Happy Birthday, love!

-Rikki

Super Colour Brainfloat

I finally started recreating the Tavicat site. Expect to see the whole thing revamped and reflopped by August 15. I stab at thee with my Cocteau Twins album cover inspired colours. Mmyep.

-Rikki

So Much Angry

Tavisha says I drink like I'm angry.

But I say it was the painting behind me that drove me to drink in the first place.

-Rikki

Yeeeep ... .

Collin and Catreece look better in color.

-Rikki

Thank You, You Tube

Love and Rockets - The Bubblemen Are Coming

Tom Waits - I Don't Want To Grow Up

Marc Almond - A Lover Spurned

-Rikki

Yay for to be Home?

So they drove us to the airport in that white metal sausage again.

And while in the air no one air burst a nuclear warhead 300 miles over the central US causing an electromagnetic pulse, frying all the circuitry on our aircraft and dropping us like a brick of gouda into an orphanage where the kids all wonder why their 30 inch HDTV suddenly quit while watching Full House on Cartoon Network. Yay.

Yay. Yay for home. Yay.

Now enjoy some of Tavisha's ebay auctions while I get depressed reading Matt High's post on the California housing market.

-Rikki

Anime Central Evening Three

So ends ACen 2006. I'm sure whatever is to replace its spot at the convention center will have an even more exciting cosplay.

Homemade Beebo and giant GIR Beebo!

We are sometimes asked to sign things that have little to do with our published work. This weekend I signed an arm, a pack of cigarettes for a seventeen year old girl, a wet towel, and underwear (laundered, I hope).

I have never before been in a stretch limo. So it only seems natural that my first time should be a ride to Superdawg.

Back on a plane to California tomorrow. Great WeinerGod protect us.

-Rikki

Anime Central Evening Two

Studio Tavicat panel. Tavisha talks about her early childhood, Little Tokyo in Los Angeles when she was a kid, and life on a Japanese American strawberry farm. I talk about color and maybe a little bit of colour too.

A manga panel for children, which we taught along side Tomoko Taniguchi (center, next to Tavisha).

A pack O' ZIMmies.

A beautiful and earthy color palette.

Great Megan coustume!

GIR Girl.

Super pretty detail!

Commie Lollie!

There was also Jan Scott-Frazier's Voices for Peace panel and concert, Carl Horn's party, and Greg Ayres spinning at the dance, but we passed out in our room and missed all of it. I blame lack of caffeine and a super squishy bed, from which emanated a heavenly light, and angels sang a lullaby until the stink of the elevator (what Bruce Lewis calls "the Brown Hammer") was far and forever gone. Amen.

-Rikki

Anime Central Evening One

Bruce Lewis & Mundee.

Tavi.

Peoples.

Ramen loves Reality Check!

GIR Girl.

Fred Gallagher and Sarah.

Jhonen.

(Yesssss, for those of you already e-mailing me, Jhonen was here yesterday, but not as a guest. He just happened to be in the area and stopped by to say hi to us. He will not be at ACEN for the rest of the con.)

Robert DeJesus.

Jan Scott-Frazier.

Monica Rial.

Greg Ayres.

Bob DeDiablo.

-Rikki

Torsos as Yet Intact

-Rikki