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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

Tonight I was on a walk with a friend and we were talking about how we feel no compulsion to have to be doing anything exciting on a Friday night because we are freaks, we are the vanguard, we party on the nights we want to party and we take it easy on the nights we want to take it easy – and then proceeded to blow up the spot and give everyone the best night ever when I showed up, with Lemon the real-life cartoon dog in tow, to the bar where all of everyone from Harth Studios’ brother company BNOTIONS was celebrating the launch of their latest iPhone app READWATCH.  Look it up in the App store, for real.

I’ve been thinking about changing up my speed and trying on an iPhone, I gotta admit.  I’m rockin’ a Droid a.k.a. Milestone and here’s my take: the camera is ass, media management sucks on Android generally, and I strongly dislike the way it half the time opens any other app except Messaging when I try to open Messaging.  And then the final straw for me was when it starting conking out, dead battery, anywhere between 3:30 and 5:30 pm.  WACK.  I thought this phone was supposed to be the shit so I was hype to try it but it’s ending up being a bit of a let-down from the point of view that this was at one point considered to be the flagship Android device that they were putting up against the iPhone.

But at the same time I count my phone blessings because I do really like handling and using it.  I love Twitter on it.  And I don’t know how I would ever go back to typing on an on-screen keyboard without Swype.  You iPhone users are really being ripped off without this feature.

But the main reasons I don’t go out and buy an iPhone right now are two:

1. My homey is bringing me down to be the DJ and entertainment for his rock & roll wedding in Austin, Texas next weekend.  This is going to be the shit but between the bachelor party and just going about my day for four days, I’m going to be spending some dough while I’m down there. Plus I need to think of something for a gift that will top the custom cartoon portrait I drew for them after I lived in their place in San Francisco.
2. If I am going to spend a few hundred bucks on anything, I’m going to spend it on a little silver box that connects my microphone to my computer and makes it sound real nice.  I don’t know the name of the thing, but Logan at Harth TV has one and I got to use it for a little while and the recordings sounded awesome.  I recorded the vocal for Anything Goes with that little silver box.  Logan is cool to let me borrow that box to record vocals whenever I want, but one of his bandmates doesn’t want me to have access to it so he keeps it at his house, even though it’s Logan’s.  So I’m at the point where I’m going “fuck it, I’ll just go buy one.”  Maybe I should buy it and record all of the vocals for the songs I have written right now while I’m in Austin, Texas.

I get thinking about California and right now I got to thinking for a split second that I might go straight from Texas to Los Angeles for a couple of days but then I’m like WHAAAATTT???  No Way!! HarthFEST!!!

If you have been reading this blog then you know that HarthFEST is a big deal to me.  It’s a mammoth undertaking, and a great move for everyone.  So many people in this city are going to get a chance to shine because a couple of nut cases thought it would be a good idea to hire Andy Milonakis for the after party of their Android TO developer and professionals conference, and then ask me to produce and host the bitch.  This is a huge opportunity and I just tried to share it with as many amazing and talented people as I could fit in it. I want to represent Toronto on an international level, so I felt like this was an opportunity to show this international figure how dope Toronto is.

Harth Fest tickets are on sale right now at harthfest.com

Are you out there?  Are you reading this? Leave a comment and let me know what’s going on with you.

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!

Montreal Comic Con was amazing.  One of the best weekends ever.  We did even better there than at Fan Expo, which itself was a record-breaking event.  This book is on fire!  And when someone comes back the day after they bought it to tell me how much they liked it, that was the best feeling in the world.

This was the first view I had on the five-foot tall banner that Guerilla Printing made for me.

The button collection was new for Montreal…

Here’s me with a local news reporter named Tom. I haven’t seen it yet but he interviewed me for his piece on Montreal Comic Con.

The most fun stuff in the convention:

The costumes were awesome, like they always are at these things. But Montreal got super creative!

Damn the guy who took this picture of me and Supergirl – you don’t get to see how she was wearing red high heels instead of boots.

I spent the whole weekend buying these Tokidoki Marvel figurines:

And traded four of them to get the one that I started out going for in the first place, Spider-Man.

Check out this vlog, recorded live from the floor at Montreal Comic Con for the full story:

My weekend in Montreal was just the spirit food and escape that I needed, and it wasn’t all business.  On the Sunday night after the convention I finally got some time to step on the town with old friends and do it up right.

Tasha knew where the party was at.  I don’t know what the deal was, it was a dark hole in the wall of a bar and there were no beer logos on display, but there was a girl in a big wood chair up high like a lifeguard, pouring cups of beer for everyone.

The beer ran out, the party got loud, and the cops showed up.

The usual way people would do this is to stay in a hotel.  I like to use the internet to find a place to stay.  I made my weekend residence in a palace, hosted by the 3rd generation owner of a Montreal-region fast food chain. I got to see Montreal from the point of view of someone who grew up in the city, had a ton of fun, got to link up with old friends who live there now, and generally have a blast for very little money. Sometimes I feel like my life has turned into an interpretation of the Tim Ferriss lifestyle of the ‘New Rich’.

Thanks to Jessica and Tasha for the 9-star Montreal experience.

This is me at work, can you believe this?

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!

These are a couple of photos I have been meaning to post.  These were snapped in the middle of a bender of an art project.  This was a motion graphics project’s ‘corrections’ stage that should have been an afternoon but ended up being three days.  And I don’t mean three work days, I mean three calendar days.  11 hours day one, 12 hours day two, and 13.5 hours day three.

And it was more fun than I could have hoped to have partying.  The camera was rigged up to capture a close up of my hands and the drawing surface.  I was drawing, we were filling up memory cards and sending them out to the editors putting in equal hours to us, cutting it as quickly as possible so that Diego Turro – the photographer who snapped these photos, and my co-director on this project – can animate it so that in the final video it’ll be stuff like where I draw a wind turbine and when I take my hands away the propellors spin.  The client on this video was OSEA (google it) who is all about getting renewable energy generation happening on a community level.

Look at this space!  Throwing papers all over the room, blasting music and making a cartoon world come to life – if this isn’t the dream, what is?

Special thanks to Biz Media for bringing me in on this project which represented a cause I could really throw some passion and creativity into.

Here is a little bit of heartfelt vlog action to all of my friends, fans, and followers, recorded in Downtown Toronto.

What? Did he say vlog action? How many months has it been since he did one of those?

Exactly. Watch the vid and you’ll see why.

Fan Expo 2011 is over and what a great weekend! With the new book TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS, a comics history of the psychedelic Beatles, it was my biggest convention ever by quite a big margin – and I’ve been to these things reppin’ a spin-off comic book from a famous TV show so you know this weekend was HOT!

What’s this on the table with The Beatles?? Two Super Party comic books?? I’ll tell you something about those in my next blog post. Spoiler alert: You’re gonna lose control of your bladder with excitement.

Me and Ninja Turtle Man!

Me and The Dude!

There are a whole bunch more pictures in the Fan Expo gallery on my Facebook page – CLICK THIS SHIT

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This blog post is dedicated to everyone who is looking at this website for the first time after meeting me at Fan Expo.  Leave a comment and say what up!  The star is dedicated to Heather Payne who loves the stars in my Twitter bio.

Extra special thanks to everyone who comes to this website on the regular and has followed my art for years.  Love to you all.

I needed to update my look. I tried and tried to find some proper George Romero/Morty Seinfeld glasses but this is what I found instead. Saw them, loved them, left them alone, spent all that night going “I’ve gotta have it. I’ve gotta have it.”

I like that they’re kinda big (though I hope my next glasses are even bigger), I like the 3 ‘blinglets’ at the corners of the eyes, and I like that the corners where the arm & frame meet are rounded instead of sharp.

The dudes ask me if they’re real, and the ladies compliment me on them.