San Diego Comic-Con 2004! Hey dudes. Wow. Okay, here's the need-to-know stuff: I am Erika Moen. Pants Press is my crew, we're friends who make comics together. These people are named Vera, Jen, Bill, Dylan, and Clio. I think I've licked every single one of them at some point in time. Steve, Stephen, Anne and Drew are the people I want to grow up to be. I have not licked any of them. Yet. Secretly I pretend that Jenn Manley Lee is my my Fairy Comics Godmother and in real life Kip Manley is my sworn enemy. The other people I look to for models of adulthood are Patrick Farley, Scott McCloud, Derek Kirk Kim, and Tracy White. Flight Volume One is this amazing full-color anthology that all of us Pants Pressers got to contribute to. There's about twenty other completely brilliant comickers who're also in there. Holy shit, this book is really awesome. Other SDCC 2004 Reports: Vera's Report Clio's Report Kazu and Kean's Report Stephen's Report (with VIDEOS) Anne's Report Patrick's Report Bill's Report Leslie's Report Neil's Report Amy and Larry's Comic-Con Adventure Lori's Report I can't read any of this but it has nice pictures! Aight! Onwards! Random Con Shit I TOTALLY DRESSED UP LIKE TANKGIRL That is Stephles, HawkMan and... yeah, me. Doi. Bianca and I go to Pitzer College together and she is the goddamned funniest person I know. You may note that she looks mildly uncomfortable. Just the way I like her These are Bianca's peeps who are wicked cool and dude? Becky? The girl on the far left? Kissing her bicep? Her art is goddamned amazing. She draws it with a MOUSE. I give you... Jeff and Jon. I thought it'd be a totally rockin thing to have a big emofest mild panic attack all over Jeff. It was as awesome as it could possibly be. By which I mean I would be morbidly embarassed if I chose to think about it, but in my mind it never happened so my dignity is preserved as this picture illustrates. On the far right is Caleb and I don't remember anybody else's name, but they were all completely lovely people and I really think that his niece (second from left) looks like a younger version of Bethanne. Not in that particular picture, but in real life. No, seriously. EDIT: His niece is the adorable Danielle! And the other two are her brother Michael and his girlfriend Liz! HAH! MYSTERY SOLVED. Clio's such a fucking nerd. HAH. Canadian. Kip was all about to try and throw some feeble insult at me and then Jenn was all 'DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY' and I was all 'HAH, that's RIGHT wussy boy!' And then he broke my nose as soon as Jenn was lookin the other way. I thiiiiiiiink this is Marco --but if it's not, then both Marco and the dude in this photo are given complete permission to punch me in the face. Whoever he may turn out to be, he was totally rad. Posters from the Pants Press Forum, Ed and Gonzalas. Holy shit, Ed just may be the most adorable girl I've ever resisted kidnapping. (Said in the most not-creepy way possible) Kane is the handsome bloke on the far left and I totally don't remember who the others are. Because I'm mildly stupid. But it's only a little. Jason Thompson, Shaenon Garrity, Spike, me, and this other dude totally representin' at the Girlamatic table. John Allison: English Charmer or ADORABLE CHIPMUNK? Tangent Break: Okay, so remember my Stumptown Comics Fest report? And how there was that really cute girl with the pink hair that I was too shy to talk to? SHE WAS TOTALLY AT THE CON. And this time? I SO WENT UP AND TALKED TO HER. And she, like, totally recognized me and was all talking back to me and dude; that was pretty much my moment of glory because I've been kicking myself since June for not having the nerve to say 'hi' when she was looking over our table at Stumptown. I thought it'd better serve to my advantage not to mention that I have photos of her on my webpage. Y'know, trying to keep the creepy factor as low as possible. There's a funny story for how I met Josh Howard of Dead@17. See, cause I'm a big fan of SuicideGirls and so is his wife and like, we bumped into each other on the site and I was all 'Dude, I'll say hi to your hubby at comic-con!' and so I did. ...Actually... that's really not entertaining at all. WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE WANT FROM ME?! PAGE 2 PAGE 3