UPDATE: Winners have been drawn!

• JW
• Amy Wong
• Phillipe Escayola
• Pratik Parmar
• Elizabeth Liu

Remember when I told you I went to see The Adventures of Tintin last week?

Well let me tell you, it’s better than I was even ready for (full review coming this week!).  And after the overwhelming show of enthusiasm for that screening, I am thrilled to be able to announce that my friends at Paramount Pictures Canada have booked another advance screening and…

You could win one of 5 double passes to see The Adventures of Tintin on December 17!

***Please note that this is an extra-special 10AM screening on Saturday December 17, strictly for the hardcore people who really want to see it early.

I’ve got 5 double passes to this exclusive advance screening of The Adventures of Tintin taking place at 10AM on Saturday, December 17 at SilverCity Yonge & Eglinton in Toronto.  If you want to go, just leave a comment below telling me which was your favorite Tintin book and why.  All eligible entries will go into a draw and winners will be announced early on Friday, December 16.

Thanks so much for your continued support, and see you at the movies!

It’s almost time for your favorite annual Toronto hometown Christmas tradition to return to the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern. Electric Christmas Freak-Out 3: A Very Harth Christmas!

This year Electric Christmas Freak-Out is supporting Free the Children. They do amazing work with kids in the 3rd world as well as at home, and it’s important to think about them at Christmas time. Click here to check out Free the Children’s amazing work.

Electric Christmas Freak-Out this year is starring:

• Fucker and the Men

• MCSW

• Wordburglar

• Melissa Azore featuring Philippe Escayola

• Joey “Accordian Guy” DeVilla

• and many more

If you remember last year, you know this was the party of the season.  Check out the blog post if you need a refresher.

Click here for the Facebook event page (confirm your attendance)

Click here for the Atendy page (advance tickets)

Come party with us at the Horseshoe in Toronto! See you December 7!

Even though my mother is from the Halifax area, I had never been to the east coast in my own home country. But after Conor McCreery told me at Montreal Comic Con about how amazing Hal-Con was last year, I had to pack up my product case and make the trip.

And what a trip! The Saturday of the convention was my biggest single day for sales ever. Sunday was a little slower on account of how the big ticket programming was on Sunday, but if you count the books that stores bought from me to sell for Christmas gift-giving, this was my highest-grossing convention weekend ever.

Three conventions in the last couple of months and each one more successful than the last.  It occurs to me that this is living the dream.

My deepest thanks and appreciation to everyone at Hal-Con who came by my table, bought my pop art wonderworks, and gave me a very warm welcome in Halifax.  And extra special thanks to Harth Publishing for sending me on this trip to represent our book, Tomorrow Never Knows – A Comics History of the Psychedelic Beatles.  This partnership just gets more fun by the day.

Thanks so much, everyone!  If you were there, drop me a line and let me know how you liked the books you got. Send me your pictures and I’ll put them on the blog or the Facebook page!

Here is the vehicle in which I arrived to Halifax. First time flying Porter!

Pondering the wisdom of Yoda. This, probably my favorite costume of the convention, was knitted by the person wearing it. She said it took her three months to make it!

Here are my custom monogrammed bags. Buy something, and then advertise me all weekend!

Homeboys chillin’. Let’s kick it on November 5.

This girl came running to the table with money in hand to buy everything Beatles on the table. It all made sense when I saw the tattoo on her wrist.

And after the convention, Strange Adventures (Legendary Halifax comic book that regularly wins awards for being the best comic book store in North America) hosted the after-party where I got to catch up with a bunch of artists I haven’t seen in forever, and make a bunch of new friends.

Speaking of Strange Adventures, Tomorrow Never Knows is going to be on their featured products wall for the Christmas gift buying season. If you are in the Halifax area, make sure you pop in to pick up a copy.  Also available in Halifax at Monster Comics Lounge.

Thanks again to everyone who made my first-ever visit to Halifax a big success and a lot of fun. This is just a sampling of the photos I took. Check out the complete gallery on my Facebook page: facebook.com/SeanWardSuperParty

Last year, I got approached to draw comics and illustrations to accompany the new single This Chick is Crazy! by Famous featuring Melanie Durrant.  I was not prepared to see my drawings come to life in the animated video!

Great job to everyone on this project, and congratulations to Famous on the new single which is blowing up as you read this!

Check out the animated video for THIS CHICK IS CRAZY! by Famous feat. Melanie Durrant and the art of Sean Ward (me!):

For a deeper look at the making of This Chick is Crazy, watch this vlog from the day that Famous and I first started brainstorming this project:

Show your love in the comments! And follow Famous and follow me on Twitter!

For more from The Kid Famous, check out his website at thekidfamous.com

HarthFEST took place at 99 Sudbury on October 26. But did you know that it wasn’t just Toronto’s most colorful party of the year?  HarthFEST was the after party for the AndroidTO conference!

Originally, HarthFEST was going to take place in July.  The vision was huge, and even some of the people in the room during the early brainstorming sessions thought that we were crazy for wanting to do stuff like put a wrestling ring in a party.  The craziest and most impractical ideas we could think of were put on a white board, and when it came time to actually stage the event as the after party for AndroidTO, it was amazing fun to see those crazy ideas come to life.

This year’s AndroidTO (a production of BNOTIONS, the most amazing technology agency in Toronto and I’m not just saying that because Harth TV lives there) was the 2nd annual edition of the conference.  The team faced a multitude of new challenges this year as AndroidTO grew to include two programming streams, a long list of high-profile speakers, major exhibitors including Rogers and Microsoft, and an impeccable production standard.

I didn’t even get a chance to take in the full AndroidTO experience because of how insane my day was, getting ready for HarthFEST.  But I got to tour the space at the very end and I was blown away.  With 750 registrations and an attention to detail I could only wish for from other groups I’ve worked with, I was elated and proud to see it all come to life.

And the glow coming from everyone who worked like dogs to pull it off was a beautiful thing to see.  There are moments in life (they’re rare but they’re real) when you feel like everything went just right.  Even the mistakes feel like they were part of the perfect whole.  October 26, with AndroidTO and HarthFEST happening on the same day, was one of those moments.

I offer my heartfelt congratulations to the organizing committee, volunteers, and staff.  And I offer my deepest thanks to Alkarim, Mark, Paul, Elliott, and everyone at BNOTIONS for the collaboration, and giving me the once in a lifetime opportunity of producing the first edition of HarthFEST.  And I’m going to single out my homeboy Alkarim Nasser, executive producer of HarthFEST and AndroidTO.  His Twitter bio says he is “converting passion into every day life”.  There’s a surface level to that phrase where you can take it like he’s doing what he loves for work, but when you see stuff like AndroidTO and HarthFEST materialize, you get a deeper look at the alchemy he’s hinting at.

COMING UP: 3rd Annual Electric Christmas Freak-Out, Star Wars Day Toronto 2012, and much more. Stay tuned!

HarthFEST is all over, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and that’s kind of understanting it. People were god damn stunned by it, not even joking!

HarthFEST was the giant, colorful, chaotic after party for AndroidTO which itself was a huge success by any measure. The BNOTIONS people are on a roll here with two giant hits in one day! We had performances by headliner Andy Milonakis, Tiny Danza who did their own material and jumped in to back up Andy and TALWST, we got food raps by Heavvy, and we closed it out with Fucker and the Men. We had food, roller derby girls, the Harth Airlettes airline personnel, and everyone was basking in the glow of both colorful lights and beautiful ladies.

I have to send thanks to everyone who came, and special thanks to all of the talent and exhibitors who made it an awesome night.  There’s been some amazing coverage of HarthFEST on Raymi’s blog and all over Facebook and Twitter, but here’s a look the event from my point of view as both producer and the MC/ring Announcer…

Look at this crowd! Not even a cold, rainy, crappy night in Toronto could keep people away.

Meet the HarthFEST performers!!

Tiny Danza:

TALWST:

Heavvy:

The food (modeled by the lovely Sura) was by Pegasus Catering, who hooked us up with over 1000 pieces just because Raymi was involved. How’s that for pull??

FLY HARTH AIR

These are the Harth Airlettes – (l-r) Bunny Angora, Raymi the Minx, Jasmine Valentine. These were the lovely faces that greeted you upon arrival to the Harth Air departure lounge.

These graphics were all done by me. Clouds whipped by the Harth Air jet on screens all over the venue, and the Harth Air arrivals board was fully animated. I worked my ass off on this show like I work my ass off on every show. There’s a whole magic trick around setting up a few key dazzling moments, and when those are in place the party is set and the rest is controlled chaos to see how good it’s going to be. The work that I do behind the scenes is always in a bunch of different areas and disciplines. A big thing in life for me in 2011 has been coming to the realization that this is the thing that makes life singular to me, that I will never relate to anyone over how it all fits together.  People only see what I do out front of the thing and think it’s all glamour & show biz and that it’s easy, or that I’m just looking for my moment in the spotlight or something.  But it’s work!

Now let me ask you this: What do you do when these guys walk up to the edge of the ring, other than invite them up and into the middle of the action??

And now check it out… me and Andy Milonakis!!

Me and Andy Milonakis, talkin’ serious business.

One of my favorite attractions was the Roller Derby Girls. They were literally skating circles around me!!

Put on some skates and be your own hero!

Here is guest of honor Andy Milonakis chatting it up with Zaira:

And Raymi the Minx:

Call it what you want, bay-beh…. I calls it loooooooove……..

There’s just so much to report!! Between people showing up in their Halloween costumes, the roller- and airline ladies, the scenery, the performances… Just too much for this blog post!!  I’ll be putting up more material over the next few days here and on the Harth TV blog & Facebook page, and in the mean time you can check out Raymi’s and Rob’s posts.  If you have any pics or if you put up a post about HarthFEST, let me know!!  Get at me on Twitter or comment right here!

HarthFEST was the brainchild of the BNOTIONS crew who gave birth to HarthFEST with a series of meetings in the Harth TV studio.  It was all a bunch of silly ideas on a white board and now here it is, having come beautifully and spectacularly to life.

You have these men (and several more) to thank for this silliness!! What up Alkarim (Batman) and Mark (Green Lantern), and Farah and Lutfiyya and Puleen and Chantelle and Mary and Paul and Zemina and Zaira and all of the dozens of people who worked to give Toronto something really special on October 26.

Special thanks as well to Eliot Lazor, Speedboats & Big Explosions, J_Lab, Groin Twins, and Numeric for holding it down on the party music tip.

Love you bitches, and I’ll see you at the next party!

Click here to read THE MAKING OF HARTHFEST…

HarthFEST has a commercial!  Buy tickets at HarthFEST.com

This is Andy Milonakis’ first-ever visit to Toronto so let’s make it something special!

Advance tickets are on sale now at http://harthfest.com

The ladies of Harth Air, I’m telling you, you don’t even know.

Here is the biggest event I have ever done.  It’s coming up in less than a month and I am so excited you wouldn’t even believe it if I tried to tell you.

Harth Studios is bringing Andy Milonakis to Toronto for his first-ever visit to our city.  Advance tickets available at HarthFEST.com

Andy has never been to Toronto and we are tremendously enthusiastic to send him back to Los Angeles and New York telling Snoop Dogg and Lady Gaga about how Toronto does it.

Andy will be joined on stage by yours truly, the host and MC of the event, along with another hometown hero, Ms. Raymi Lauren AKA Raymi the Minx.  She’ll be leading the Harth Airlettes as they get you high in their flight uniforms.

We are totally looking for anyone who has something they want to exhibit or perform.  We are especially looking for interesting/alternative exhibits, and people who have an act that can be performed in an up-close, one-to-one situation.  Get at me on any of the usual social web channels if you’re interested in that.

Get the low-down on who else is performing and all of the attractions at HarthFEST.com – Special “Early Nerd” discount on tickets right now!

Costumes and fun at Harth TV studio for our Wednesday night open format crazy show, Harth Night Lite.

Yeah, watch the video!!

If you want to come to the studio to take part in Harth Night Lite, get at me or Harth TV on Twitter or on the Sean Ward or Harth TV Facebook pages!