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Internet, I can forgive you for not having the below image be the first thing that cropped up when I searched “John Bates,” but to not even have this pop up in a google image search when I typed the specific phrase?!?! Downton Abbey fans, Internet users everywhere… I’m disappointed in you all.
(So… Sometimes you’ve watched a bunch of eps of Downton Abbey in a row and it seems real important to open up photoshop at 1:45am to make something silly.)
Once again, I didn’t spend much cash this year, but here’s what I brought home from Comic-Con International… Continue Reading “San Diego Comic-Con 2012: The Booty”
Continuing my Comic-Com International recollection for 2012 after posting a list of highlights a few days ago, here are all the photos I took at this year’s show. In year’s past, I’ve come home from San Diego only to realize I took about five to ten photos that in no way showcase the Comic-Con experience. So, this year, I made an effort to take a ton of photos. If I thought, “Wow, that’s a weird/interesting/strange/wild/crazy/outrageous/cool/fun thing!” I did my best to capture it on my iPhone camera.
Here’s what I came home with this year… Continue Reading “San Diego Comic-Con 2012: The Photos”
It was a helluva show, folks!
Comic-Con International 2012, aka San Diego Comic-Con, was a raucous success this year. By far the best SDCC I’ve ever attended. Not only was it a very encouraging show—seems every comic person I talked to was selling a lot of stuff and having a great time, so the air of enthusiasm was very high—but it was a show without any real problems. (So, far as my experience went… a rarity for such a huge convention.) In short, I had way too much fucking fun and also managed to get some work done. Success!
Continue Reading “San Diego Comic-Con 2012: The Memories”
Wow. Long time, no blog…
I just got back from Comic-Con and will bring the ol’ EoP up to speed with photos and happenings from that massive event, but first, as Movember approaches, Movember HQ has sent out a great video that explains what some of the funds we raised are going towards.
Here’s what they had to say in their recent email… Continue Reading “Mid-Year Movember Update: Global Collaboration”
CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT. Continue Reading “Franklin & Bosh”
When people ask what I do for a living I usually explain that I work at a comic book publisher and vaguely run down a few of my responsibilities. Each different rank of editor performs a ton of different tasks, all of which help publications reach their pinnacle before becoming available to the reading public. Some of these tasks are extremely interesting and some of them are fairly dull. All of them are extremely necessary and important to the production of comics, but listing them all doesn’t usually make for interesting conversation. Long story short, I don’t think many of us editorial folk explain all that we do very often, because it’s a pretty lengthy list of responsibilities.
Continue Reading “What I Do For A Living”
Two weeks ago, Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys died. He meant a lot to a lot of people—myself included. Because of that, right now, fans who appreciate what Yauch and the Beasties did for 30 years are meeting in NYC’s Union Square to hang out and share memories about what Yauch meant to them.
Continue Reading “Celebrating MCA Day even if I can’t be in NYC…”
Rest In Peace Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys.
Continue Reading ““I Want To Offer My Love And Respect To The End””
After blogging about Stumptown Comics Fest earlier this week, I realized that I really don’t post to this blog enough. Or, even very much at all anymore, let alone “enough.” Between tumblr and twitter, I’m posting stuff online frequently, but very little of it ends up here. If I had to guess why that is, I’d imagine this blog’s lack of some more focused theme would be the answer.
Long ago, this was a beer and comics blog. Then, Enemy of Peanuts became a home for my doodles while also being a place to showcase links to my work in journalism. For three months each Fall, this blog becomes a place to talk about growing mustaches and all things Movember. And now, though used very infrequently, the blog has morphed into a collection of iPhone photos and occasional diary-style stories that are—probably—more for my own benefit than anyone else’s. EnemyofPeanuts.com has had some pretty specific purposes or themes or directions or whatever in the past, but now it’s adrift. It’s a blog without a direction run by a guy who’s not sure what to say where on the interwebs—what people care to read at all on a blog, let alone here. What can I add to this site that I don’t sling off the cuff on tumblr or twitter?
So, though my infrequency in posting to this blog likely means few people still check in on the ol’ EoP, I’d love to hear what any of my friends, readers,and—dare I say—”fans” would enjoy hearing about on this blog. Stories? Advice? Just doodles to look at/make fun of? More of a first person recounting of things that have happened to me? Seriously, I’ll take requests! But really, I hope some feedback helps me discover a new, more permanent direction for EnemyOfPeanuts.com.
Thanks in advance to anyone who sends along some input! Very much obliged.
And now, I’ll stop rambling…
(Art’s from here.)