It was a big weekend at Beatles Fest West in San Francisco. I found several new homes for my Beatles prints, and made some great connections in the Beatles world. And I scored 100% on Beatles Rock Band, Expert level, this time in front of a big crowd! And got a huge ovation!

That’s me working on a custom cartoon portrait. Rand took the pictures here but he only made it for a little while on the Sunday. I wish I had pictures of some of the custom art jobs I did at the event. I did this one George Harrison that was one of the best things I’ve ever done!

That’s me and Christina Trillo, one of the singers from the theatre.

OooooOOOOoooooh, Beatles prints that you haven’t seen yet! Coming very soon to the Super Party store!!

We had a blast. The Vows (performing as The Rebuttals, combo Beatles/Rutles cover band) were terrfic. The art was amazing. Thank you so much, everyone, for making my first show in San Francisco such a hit for me.

The Blue Meanie was our man on the door!

John Lennon greets the people

Yoko in effect.

That’s Yoko (D in disguise) with Ray, the owner of Space Gallery

This Father/Son duo travelled all the way from England to see the show! They might have already been in town when they heard about it, but we’ll just say that this show is why they came.

Rohini at the bar. I wonder if she minds if I call her Ro-Ro.

More as I get ‘em.

Special thanks to:
Amoeba Music for sponsoring the event and getting us involved in “Beatle Day at Amoeba”
Harmonix for giving the show a Beatles Rock Band Bundle
Isotope Comics and RVCA
everyone at Space Gallery

Come see me and get a drawing this Saturday at the Silver Snail for Free Comic Book Day!

Free Comic Book Day is THIS SATURDAY. That means you can walk into pretty much any comic book shop and they will just give you a bunch of specialty editions of various comic books. Just about everything for every taste is on offer, with all of the major publishers participating.

You will find me at the Silver Snail in Toronto (367 Queen Street West), signing and drawing sketches for people. Come, and let me draw you a picture! Everything’s free!

Noon to six, or thereabouts.

A couple of photos from previous years:

For more, see silversnail.com

Bush leaves for good!!! We might not ever have to even look at him again!

But the tide has turned, the 21st century is finally underway, and Bush is not the President any more.  He’s done.  He’s gone.  He’s effectively out of our lives, and hopefully his entire posse of rented snakes is gone with him.

Obama is the President now.

Sometimes I feel providence moving.  You know, in the little things.  When I got on the ship and I was in a shared cabin, I put it out there that a shared cabin was not going to work for me.  Two weeks later, my cabin mate was fired and his replacement lives up at the front of the ship with one of the dancers.  Then I put it out there that however my schedule works out, I need to be able to watch the Obama inauguration.  And then I find out that Princess Cruises wants to make a big deal of the inauguration, make a whole party out of it, and that the Cruise Director wants me to produce and host it.

Remember that Obama illustration from the election? Well let me tell you, that sure came in handy!

Usually the ship shuts right down on a port day but the venue was pretty packed. Everyone was clapping at the speeches. They stood for the national anthem. And since the room is usually used for dancing and bands, there was lots of room for excited children to dance and jump as they applauded.

The prizes for Presidential Trivia – CNN Tote Bags! You know I kept one for myself.

Overall, a really nice moment. For all of the fun I am having being on a luxury ship and missing winter, this is a moment that would have been really nice to share with friends.