Words and News from Yer Central Mailer for CTO #3
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The Mission: Travel to San Diego to Clobberin’ Con XVI and have the time of your life. Mission accomplished! Howdy, Clobberin’ citizens! Issue #3 is here, just a WEE bit late, but only by a week (we used to do worse, remember?). Sorry about the delay. Had to deal with the sickness AND getting the big Nice Guy update up, and it just wasn’t going to happen. Hope that gave some people time to put some finishing touches on their zines. This time around, Aaron “Wingboy” Storck has stepped up from contributions to a full-on zine, and joined the ranks of the likes of Dave by doing his zine in handy PDF format. That’s a little reminder for you all that might not be into web design but know how to work a PDF. You can do it that way, too. Aside from the contributions, we’ve got our first online
Con report to check out! Clobberin Con XVI As you can see on the Contents page, there are two different pages where you can check out the skinny on the Con That Was. The first is the Con report that I wrote up, with all the sordid details: While there are some pics within the report, you can check out even more at Con Gallery: Clobberin’ Con XVI Photo Gallery As I say on that page, that’s just some of the pics. I did a full on photo gallery with all, like, 180 pics for the post-Con Nice Guy update, and it took me forEVER to do. Then I started the ‘Times update, and realized I didn’t have time to go through all that again. So I put up the ones more of interest to ‘Timers (ones of ‘Times members) here as sort of a family album, but you can check them all out, if you like, over at the Nice Guy site: Nice Guy Photo Page – 2005 Comic-Con Photos We’re all back home now, and as usual, had an amazing time. ‘Timers Aaron Storck, Aaron “A.T.” Thompson, K.C. Ryan, Jeff Baumgardner, Kaye Bellot, Ben Bellot, Michael “That’s me” O’Connell—along with regular Con pals Russ Williams and Tony Graham—hooked up for Comic-Con International 2005 in San Diego on July 13-16. A blast was had. There were panels, there was gaming, there were celebrity encounters, and there was even a live radio appearance by a certain Mr. Storck! As with all years past, it was an amazing time, and we all came back with a lot of great memories and a creative recharge. Great to see old friends again (as this is the one chance most of have to see each other a year) and relive the old times again. Wish more of you could have been there! That brings us to next year. While I was preparing to leave
for the trip, I was telling a lot of people about it, and friends
of mine in town, as well as relatives of mine, have decided
that next year they’re going to stop hearing about it
and actually show up. So our big goal is to get as many people
as possible out to the thing. So start making plans! That’s
July 20-23, 2006, so mark that calander. You
have a year, and we’d love to see you there. We want Martin
back! We want Joel back! And we’d love to see some first-timers
make it out, too. So think about it! 'Times Founders Make TV Appearance Hey, did I even mention this here? I mentioned on the ‘Times board, I think. Back in May, Tim and I were on Channel 13 in Sacramento on the Daybreak show, along with A-1 Comics owner (and backer of ours) Brian Peets, talking about The Nice Guy. Thought I’d throw a couple of the screen caps on here, at least, in case you didn’t see them over at the Nice Guy site.
Brian Peets, Tim Watts, Michael O'Connell and Daybreak host Cody Stark
Me looking stoned
Tim looking right at the camera
Tim's art's an TV?! How cool is THAT?
Next Issue Deadline Deadline for the next CTO issue is October 9, 2005, for inclusion in the October 10, 2005 issue. Going to be a week off again because on the normal deadline weekend, Aaron and I are both going to be in San Diego seeing the big Serenity premiere with our old Firefly pals. Just put your stuff on a web page (or in a PDF) and e-mail the link (or the file) to me at: Don’t forget to go out and see Serenity yourself on Friday, September 30th, and keep hope alive for Browncoats everywhere by helping the film make enough cash to warrant the planned trilogy. If you’re not hip to Serenity, hop down to your video retailer or to Amazon.com and pick up the Firefly DVD set…or just start watching those reruns on Friday nights at 7pm on Sci Fi! We’ll see you all next time, and hope to see more of you here! Michael O’Connell |
