Mutant Penguin Blog

Wizard World LA 2008

2008-03-20T17:06:00.000-07:00

Wizard World 2008 in LA, 3/14-3/16. I went all three days and had a great time. I got mocked by Seth Green at a panel, saw/met quite a few of our fellow Deviant Artists, and got pic's of some celebrities. I didn't get pictures of everyone there, but here is some of my better shots:

Matt Humphreys/AmericanNinjaX on DA, & Paul Gutierrez/Guts

And a sketch by Matt

Matt again & Sean Galloway/Cheeks

Christina Strain/CeeCeeLuvins

Also there were DA artists Emily Warren/FrozenLilacs, David Nakayama, Micah Gunnell/Sonofdavinci, and J-Scott-Campbell. I didn't get any pictures of them... but I was great to meet(/see) them.

Other Artists:

Mike Kunkle

Sketch by Mike

Joe Madureira

David Mack & Mandy Amano

Celebrities:

Erin Grey (Wilma Deering from the 80's Buck Rogers show. Man, did I have a crush on her...)

Summer Glau

Alyssa Milano

Oh, and next to her is Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes.
(I honestly didn't notice until I'd looked at my pictures that he was there. =P)

Gina Philips (from The Sickhouse)

Gina Philips sees what I did in her purse...

Seth Green

Misc:

R2 races!!!

Tofu Festival

2007-09-01T00:03:00.001-07:00

The Tofu Festival, held in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA, on August 18 & 19th 2007.
Due to poor planning and bad traffic I missed much of the festival, including the sumo wrestling and yummy, yummy tofu (bleh). However I got there in time to see what I wanted, the Cosplay Contest and Parade. Here are some of the (good) pictures I took:

Cosplay Contest: Only 12 entries?

SogeKiiing!

Anime Souffle Group

Some random Cuties

The Parade:

There were several floats w/ pretty beauty pageant winners, this was the only one I took that came out well.

Cosplayers on Parade:

The Cosplayers would stop every once in a while and a group would do the 'Hare Hare' dance.

This float was the finale' of the parade. Just after the sun had set.

SDCC2007 PartI

2007-08-02T00:16:00.000-07:00

San Diego Comic-con Part I,
DA Artists:

Jeffrey 'Chamba' Cruz/Lastscionz

Omar Dogan/Omar-Dogan

Ryan Odagawa/UdonCrew

JoeNG/UdonCrew

Alex Milne/MarkerGuru

Sean Galloway/Cheeks-74

David Colman/DavidsDoodles

David Williams/Brohawk, Jerome K. Moore/Jerome-K-Moore, and some nerdy white guy.

Johane Matte /Rufftoon

Ryan Benjamin/RyanBnjmn

Ryusuke Hamamoto/RyusukeHamamoto

SDCC2007 PartII

2007-08-01T23:03:00.000-07:00

San Diego Comic Con, Part II,
Animation Academy Alumni:

Patrick Morgan

Jose Lopez

John Nevarez

David Colman (also an AA alumni) /DavidsDoodles

Steve Silver

Gary Montalbano

Richie Chavez & Chance Raspberry

Other Artists & Celbs:

Yasuhiro Nightow. He was doing signings/pics, I asked for Legato.

Yoshitaka Amano

Dean Yeagle

Aurthur Adams

Michael Turner

J. Scott Campbell

Chris Sanders

Jim Lee

Robh Ruppel

Javier Guzman

Bill Pressing

Aimee Steinberger. She drew the cat and I told her she should add the quote from a T-shirt I saw there at the con. Then she added the shredded mousey. =)

Girls Drawing Girls booth

Crystal Thompson

Scott Kurtz (PvP)

Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon!!

"That Pepsi Girl" Mandy Amano @ the Image/Kabuki booth

Friends:

Kristy & some dorky guy

James & Satti, neice, nephew.

Christine & Cigam

SDCC2007 PartIII

2007-08-01T02:58:00.000-07:00

San Diego Comic Con, Part III,
Booth- displays, girls, and performers:

Lego Batman w/ flowing cloth cape

Golden Compass

Models for the Conan game

Christy Marie as Princess Leia. She was at J. Scott Campbell's booth (he has a drawing of her, as Leia, in the sketchbook he sells.) Now if she was only laying on this display~

Evilcheerleaders.com

Suicide Girls

(I'm just taking a picture of her backpack... ahem.)

Blade Runner: Re-release Promo (these girls gave real attitute too!)

The Aspen booth sure had some pretty ladies. (I think that smile is embarrassment from being asked for a picture.)

SDCC2007 PartIV

2007-08-01T00:56:00.001-07:00

San Diego Comic Con, Part IV (parts posted in reverse order),
One of the best parts of the con, the Cosplayers:

My girl, Cammy, and Chun-li. Nice pose girls!

"Cats" from the Masquerade

"Silent Hills the Musical", I think this won Best of Show!?

Spiderman & Carnage @ the Spider-man animated panel.

This guy cracks me up!

Two girls from the Masquerade. They did pretty good in their skits!

This little guy was "monster stopping" through the line,
heh, I had to take a picture!

Adam Strange. Not Flash (Owaaaah!!)

This guy's face looked wicked! Like his jaw was burnt off!

Back to the Future's Lorraine Mcfly.... No, not really. I got to talking to her in the Starbuck's line, and she just felt like dressing up in a 40's style dress. So I told her she looked kinda like Michael J. Fox's mom in BTF, and she could pass it off as that! =)

"All Hail Brain" This Masquerade skits get bonus points for starting an endless chant!

These guys were cool, moving LEDs and sounds to boot!

Darth Vader likes to think he can choke people, it's best to play along. (-click-)

Blog, blog, blog...

2007-07-30T01:21:00.000-07:00

Someone Grabbed my name "MutantPenguin.blogspot.com" already, 'Doh'!.... and she doesn't even look anything like me! Oh well. So this is "MutantPenguinBlog.blogspot.com". So don't go to the other one unless you want some tips on knitting.