Eric Adams

This was two weeks ago, but better late than never…

My experience at this year’s Pittsburgh Comicon, my fourth in a row, is in the minority it seems because it was a smashing success.

Okay, maybe not smashing but I felt like using an adjective and smashing sounded… smashing.  Anyway, I made a killing. And that killing pun wasn’t intended, but I suppose my not removing means it now is.  If you don’t get it, you will if you read on.

Read the rest of this entry »

Lenny Cooper and Jeff Tundis covered S.P.A.C.E. this year and I did a short interview with them. Of course, it would be polite of you to listen to the complete show, but if you just want to skip ahead and hear me, I start yammering on about 1 hour and 30 minutes in.

http://indiespinnerrack.blogspot.com/2008/04/indie-spinner-rack-issue-120.html

I’ll be wearing this fancy, new hat through most of the Pittsburgh Comicon this weekend.

See you there.

It’s been a strangely comic-centric past few days. I’ll have a couple of news items to share in the next few weeks.

Meanwhile, please be aware that I will be at the Pittsburgh Comicon this weekend. For those unaware, this is The Biggest Comic Book Event of the Year of the Weekend! No denying that.

I will be, of course, promoting LACKLUSTER WORLD including the new, shiny and best issue, #5. You can see a preview of LW#5 over here. I’ll be trying to take on a lot of commissions at this show, so please hit me up for a drawing.

I’ll be spending a lot of time with friends and taking it easy in the ‘off’ hours. If you want to meetup, drop me a line.

I am on the bandwagon.

http://twitter.com/EricAdams

No, I wasn’t shaving my unibrow.

I am not seeking a job and I do not believe I will ever have a need for a resume ever again. That said, should the unlikely need occur, I think my cover letter would go something like this:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Let’s cut through it.

I desire the position you desire to fill.

At the risk of sounding over-confident, I assure you my confidence is not ‘over’ and, well, here goes:

Among all the other candidates in the little stack before you, it is very likely that I am the most resourceful, the most efficient, the most organized, the highest skilled with the highest number of useful skills and mostly punctual. I say ‘mostly punctual’ because –let’s be honest– no one is perfect and if I have a fault it’s that I might be in 15 minutes late a day each week.

I have a degree in graphic design and while I do not refuse to share that information, I have consciously chosen to not include it on my enclosed resume. Frankly, believing there is any worth in weighing education against candidates for a graphic design position is nonsense as any design professional can tell you that one year of real experience is worth five years in college. I have ten years of experience.

To that end I have enclosed what really counts– my portfolio. One look through it is all you should need to make your decision, and in the unlikely event you feel my work doesn’t make the cut, I suspect it will at least impress you. That is, if my candor has not already.

Good luck in your search.

Sincerely,

Eric Adams

Has anyone discovered that fabled dream Wordpress plugin that will crosspost to my livejournal, myspace, facebook, EVERYWHERE, etc all from my wordpress blog?

I’m performing some major surgery on my website(s) and want a way to cut down on my cross-posting monotony.

Chuck Moore over at comicrelated.com wrote a pretty spiffy review of the full run of LACKLUSTER WORLD thus far. For those that have yet to read LW5 and wish to remain pure, be warned he give away a few minor details but nothing to spoilery.

http://www.comicrelated.com/review/lacklusterworld.html

SPACE has once again come and gone.

Attendance was thin most of the weekend, but there were a few busy spells. My sales were about average overall, which is to say good. SPACE is always one of my best shows. This year’s show had a lot of things going against it. It was (accidentally?) scheduled on the same weekend as STAPLE in Texas and worse yet, Buckeye Comic Con also happening in Columbus. Additionally, it is about six weeks earlier than usual and I predict that in four weeks, many comic readers will be looking for it only to be disappointed that they missed it. Darn.

My big seller was of course the brand spanking new LACKLUSTER WORLD #5. This issue is easily my favorite of the series and I would argue my best. It’s pretty personal to me and I’ve been holding the hope that it brings readers to tears. Feedback thus far has been to that effect. My friend Kris said, “Thanks for making my wife cry.”

Gynn and/or Rick (which one of you two writes the reviews??) gets a gold sticker for writing the first review and it’s a great one.

Saturday night, I had a scheduled interview with Dave Sim. He and the Cerebus Yahoo! Group people invited me to join them for dinner, so I was able to conduct the interview from the back seat of a mini-van and in the lobby of the wacked-out German restaurant while we waited for an hour to be seated. I won’t come right out and say why I interviewed Dave (not yet anyway), but I can say it has a little something to do with the return of a little installment based writing I’ve done in the past.

That’s quite a huge clue really.

Anyway, SPACE was fun as always and it’s always great to see all the cool kids with their cool books. For those of your that couldn’t make it to the show, you can buy LW5 here.

And now, photos.

Look! New banner graphic!

Mary modeling a fine looking comic book:

Stolen from comicrelated.com: Joanna and I drawing some doodles on this year’s jam boards: