Dog Eaters

Download Issue #0 for free!

Posted on 08.18.08 under News, Previews

We know what you’re thinking — you skipped San Diego Comic Con and missed the chance to get your free copy of Dog Eaters #0, right?

Wrong! We’ve got it available for you to download, absolutely free!

So click the link, snag the file, and see what all the fuss is about!

DOG EATER T-SHIRTS!!!

Posted on 08.18.08 under News, T-Shirts

NEW SHIRTS!!!
DOG EATERS T-Shirts are available Junie Moon Online.
Very limited numbers on each shirt. Some sizes are already sold out.

Fun and games are over — or are they just beginning?

Posted on 08.18.08 under News

August 10, 2008

Text and cover image for DOG EATERS Issue #2, which is coming out in December, is due on Monday, EST. We’ve got hard deadlines to meet every month and things will be getting tighter and tighter.

This is the announcement for the Diamond Monthly Preview catalog for DOG EATERS Issue #1.

DOG EATERS is in the lower right-hand corner. After clicking once on the thumbnail, click again to enlarge to read the text. We’re third fiddle in this ad, but hopefully we won’t get lost in the cacophony…

The next cover will feature Tommy, the oldest remaining son of Lamont and Rebecca Black Dog. He lives with a burning, risk-taking zeal that only a hormone engorged teenager possesses. A carefree and careless young man, Tommy will eventually take Lamont’s place in leading the tribe, but he is not concerned with taking on responsibility just yet — after all, his father is strong and vital, domineering in fact — and will not step down until his guns are pried from his dead hands.

This is a rough of the cover for Issue #2 which will feature Tommy, Rose, and Bronco.

Look to the left sidebar for another image of Tommy that more fully captures his insouciance and cocky self-confidence.

Well, enough fun and games. Got to get to work…

Back In Tokyo, musing about Maui…

Posted on 08.18.08 under San Diego Comicon 2008

August 8, 2008

Is 08/08/08 an auspicious date? Sure why not. Safely back in Tokyo after a sixteen day trip. Five intense days at San Diego Comic-con, eight more-or-less leisurely days of family reunion/80th birthday party in Maui. Nothing especially interesting about other people’s family reunions. However, you might be interested in seeing the Lukas, the family acrobat, walk on his hands. He can also juggle. We think he may run away to the circus someday. Disclaimer/cautionary note: you may get a stiff neck watching this.
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Lukas is on the right. We’re going to bill him as a five-year-old. Hey the Chinese Olympic committee does it! Brian is on the left. His Drunken Monkey style is pretty good. He managed to snatch the pebble from my hand…

The highlight of this birthday party/family reunion was the fantastic hula performance by the Kanoeau Dance Academy.
Live music by Auntie Ke’ala Kukona backed by Leia on stand-up bass and Kimo on acoustic guitar — singing sweet harmonies. Some very young dancers prepare in the wings.

Here are some of the dancers posing with the family.

A few random sights of Maui. From 200 Leilani Dr, Wailuku, a view of a cruise ship in Kahului Harbor.

This is an attempt to make a living environmental art piece out of a fallen macadamia nut tree. Mac trees are like weeds — even if you cut them down, they’ll grow right back. This tree blew down in a storm half a year ago and it was still as green as the rest of the trees around it. We gave it a major pruning then lifted it off the ground and propped it up. Check back in a couple of months to see how this piece progresses.

Uncle Rob and Dustin stand proudly next to “Tribute to Dali.”

Another random thought: my red eye. At the birthday party, I started recruiting new Black Dog Clan members. I got wound up again, probably raising my blood pressure, and my red eye (which had been in remission) came back. I’m starting to think that this is going to a chronic condition for the rest of my life. Or as long as DOG EATERS is in my life.

I guess I should throw in a couple of gratuitous shots of “beautiful” Maui.
The view from the condo lanai.

From Maalaea, off in the distance, Molokini…


A couple of sunset shots…

Aloha!

San Diego Comicon wrap up and the flight to Maui

Posted on 08.18.08 under cosplay, San Diego Comicon 2008, San Diego Comicon 2009

July 28

Got to bed at 2 AM and was sleeping deeply when the alarm went off at 6 AM. I guess the five days of Comicon were stressful (although it didn’t seem that way or I else I don’t want to admit it) as I was finally able to sleep deeply after it was over. I also had a big red spot in my eye from a burst blood vessel the whole time I was in San Diego which immediately started to go away on Monday after SDCC was over. It started in the San Francisco airport where I had to fight to get priority standby to San Diego so we wouldn’t miss Preview Night and it just kept getting worse until the Con was over.

I felt satisfied with the work we put in at Comicon and the whole experience in general — right up to when I realized that the cab driver had dropped us off at the wrong terminal. We were supposed to go to the commuter terminal which is at the beginning of the airport. Still made our flight with plenty to of time to spare. We did have to buy an extra bag because 2 of our bags were overweight. The good news? San Diego airport has free wi-fi, which no other airport has, it seems.

Got to LAX fine and then to Honolulu. The following shots are from the plane from Honolulu to Kahului.

Tail of a Hawaiian Air jet. Aloha Airlines is out of business leaving just Hawaiian Air servicing the islands with jets.

Next to the HNL airport is Hickham, the Air Force base, which is next to Pearl Harbor.

Top Gun coming in for a landing.

Shots over the ocean.

Coming into Maui.

A lovely rainbow to greet us as we landed!
Dinner with a view of the sunset.

First part of the trip, mission accomplished. The bag that wasn’t on the baggage carousel when we got in was delivered to the condo later that night as well, so we start tomorrow off without a missing bag as a problem that needs to be solved. Hallelujah!!

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