• The Emerald City ComiCon is very soon (March 1-3) and my wife and I will be headed there for a mini-vacation. We haven’t been the last 2 years, and the last time we were there I was tabling in Artist Alley and barely saw the rest of the show. So this time we’re looking forward to just being free to be fans and see as much as possible, and also catch up with a lot of people we haven’t seen in a long time.

One of those people is my good friend Alex, who runs The Forge of Ice, a tabletop miniatures company I’ve done some work for; you can find them at tables O-13/14. While I’m not exhibiting this year, a lot of my friends from this area are – check out the list over on the Comicsmiths’ Guild site: CSG at ECCC!

• However I will be exhibiting at the Spokane ComiCon, which this year falls on June 1st (my birthday!). I’m splitting an Artist Alley table with my wife Jennifer, so I can show off my art and comic stuff and she can sell her crafty stuff. We’ve even got some ideas for collaborating on a project, but we’ll keep mum on the specifics ’til we’re a bit further along with that…

• Recently I did a guest strip for my buddy Matt Nelson’s webcomic Catbeard the Pirate, while he was taking a short break after finishing up a long storyline. Catbeard’s a great all-ages comic that’s a mix of comedy and adventure – it’s been going for nearly 2 years now, with one collected book out so far. You can see my contribution here: Catbeard Guest Strip!

• I’m starting to post more on my Tumblr blog, as it’s a good place to quickly throw up sketches and works-in-progress along side finished works and other things. I’d recommend following me there for more frequent updates for now: Peter on Tumblr

• I’m planning on sprucing up this site a bit relatively soon, as well as get a proper site set up for Jennifer, but I don’t know how quickly that will actually happen…

• And finally, for any local artist types, this coming Saturday (the 23rd) is the first Spokane Drink & Draw of 2013. It’ll be at the Saranac Public House downtown, from 6-10, and is an all-ages event. It’s being organized by Nathan O’Brien, who runs the Spokane ComiCon, and he’s hoping to make them a regular thing. You can RSVP for the event here: Drink & Draw Social Club February Spectacular!

Thanks for visiting my corner of the internet – I hope to have some more to share soon, and am looking forward to seeing people at upcoming events!

Also, there obviously hasn’t been a new In Geekness up since the last post… holidays are a busy and crazy time, and I should’ve expected that to impact comic making. I am working on some things, but I think for now I’m just going to hold off on announcing anything, or promising any sort of regular update schedule, until I know for sure that I can deliver.

I’m not really one to make New Year’s Resolutions, but I am looking forward to 2013, and do have a lot of personal and creative goals I’d like to see myself achieve. I doubt I’ll update this again before the end of the month, so see you all next year!

Here we have Marvel’s new Miss America, rocking her predecessor’s old-school spectacles. Being four-eyed myself, I always kinda liked the idea of superheroes who wore glasses – though they are few and far between.

Ms. Chavez was the subject of Project: Rooftop’s latest call for Fan-Art Friday submissions. I totally spaced and missed the deadline, but wanted to get this idea down on paper anyway.

There’s also another comic up over at the In Geekness page to check out. Took a bit of a break there during the holidays, but I want to get back to updating regularly again, with a new page each Sunday. So keep an eye out for that, as well as a couple of other comic-related things which should hopefully be popping up here relatively soon…

I’ve always been something of a pack rat, and that includes being a bit of a “clothes horse” at times. I’ve bought a lot of things I most likely didn’t need and then held on to them far longer than I probably should. This shiny shirt is amazingly not one of my worst decisions in that regard.

However it is an example of what happens when you work at a comic book store and have a healthy employee discount – your closet starts getting infiltrated with somewhat questionable wardrobe choices. But that wasn’t near as bad as the time I spent working at Value Village and was surrounded by bargain priced clothes all day (plus my discount)…

Ah yes, one of the great dangers of the internet  — self diagnosis of medical maladies. I remember throwing my back out a few years ago, and being stuck at home, mostly immobilized but with access to the world wide web. I had briefly convinced myself, after much comparing of symptoms, that I was obviously a victim of spinal meningitis. Because, of course that would be the most likely culprit. Right…