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.

Here are a few pictures from the convention floor at Fan Expo today…

First of all, Fan Expo 2011 is in the South Building of the Metro Convention Centre, not the North building on Front Street like every other year I’ve been. That means that the convention floor is waaaayyyy down underground, but a mobile signal is surprisingly not a problem.

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The t-shirt selection is banging this year. Last year it sucked! I already bought another Tokidoki Spider-Man shirt, bringing my full collection of Spider-Man shirts to SIX.

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Giant Lego Optimus Prime

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Two of the most popular cosplay costumes on the convention floor!

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This Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man plays the Ghostbusters theme when you squeeze him.

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I’ve seen A-List celebrities move around with less to-do than when this guy enterted the place.

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C3PO masks to promote Star Wars on Blu Ray.

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With the homeys.

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I’m in the Professional Guests section at the back of the hall! P008 is my table number. Come say what up!

Yo, you know my friend Alice Quinn who runs the website T-Dot Comics?  Well she has just launched the first-ever Toronto & GTA Comic Shop Awards.  The best comics shop in the city (and Toronto is pretty spoiled with a bunch of great comics stores) will be awarded in a bunch of categories by your votes.

Here’s the scoop on the event from Alice herself:

This August, Toronto comic fans are invited to participate in TdotComics’s The BEST Comic Shop Awards! We’re getting a little friendly competition going between the comic shops of the GTA, and YOU are the judge.

Throughout the month, TdotComics readers will vote for their favourite GTA comic shops in 8 different categories: Customer Service, Membership Package/Deals, Toys/Statues and Gadgets, Selection of Books/Issues, Wearable Merchandise, Events, Website, and In Store Atmosphere. 13 of Toronto’s most well-known comic shops are participating in the contest: Atomic Age, The Beguiling, BMV Books, Comics & More, Cyber City Comix, Dragon Lady Comics, Hairy Tarantula, Labyrinth Comics & Games, One Million Comix, Paradise Comics, Planet X, Red Nails II, and Silver Snail Comics.

The awards will be capped off by an awards ceremony around September 9th at a location to be determined, with more details to follow. We are still trying to tie down a venue at this point, so feel free to contact us if you know of anywhere that may be willing to host.

To coincide with the awards, TdotComics has also created a map of all participating comic shops in the GTA, so readers can take the opportunity to visit more and expand their comic culture!
Voting for TdotComics’s The BEST Comic Shop Awards is open at http://www.tdotcomics.ca/thebest/. We welcome you to make your voice heard by voting, blogging about TdotComics’s the BEST, or posting your comments at http://www.tdotcomics.ca/tdotcomics’s-the-best/. Of course, the best way to participate is by taking a group of friends to do a comic shop crawl and checking out some comic shops you don’t often visit.

Contact Alice Quinn at tdotcomics@gmail.com with any questions or private comments. Good Luck to all the contenders may the BEST comic shops win!

Visit TDotComics.com to take part in T-Dot Comics’ THE BEST Comics Shop Awards