This year I have five things premiering at San Diego Comic-Con, and at least two signing events. Here’s all the info on those bits of coolness, as well as some exciting news about me being chosen as a featured Twitterer by UberSocial!

SIGNINGS

Want to get your Serenity Travel posters signed? Or maybe one of the new Team Unicorn posters I have premiering at the Con? Here’s where and when I’ll be signing:

• Thursday, 3 pm, California Browncoats Booth (#A7/A8): They’ll have lots of my previous stuff for sale at the booth, too.
• Sunday, 11 am, Team Unicorn Booth (Offsite @ NerdHQ, 379 4th Ave.): Check out the premiere of my first two posters for Team Unicorn, and get them signed while you’re at it!

NEW ART PREMIERING THIS YEAR

NOTE: Some of the pieces haven’t been announced yet, so I’ll update the mystery images as soon as I’m given permission. Stay tuned!

• Poster for THE NERD MACHINE
• Official Season Five Poster for THE GUILD
• Two Posters for TEAM UNICORN
• “Robonerdicorn” T-shirt for THE NERD MACHINE and TEAM UNICORN

Poster for THE NERD MACHINE

This was the surprise project for The Nerd Machine. They asked me to create a poster that Zachary Levi could give away during his signing, commemorating the very first NerdHQ at Comic-Con. It was a very last minute project, which was done in two and a half days!

Official Season Five Poster for THE GUILD

A 16-bit-inspired poster featuring the cast of the Guild. Available for sale for $10 at The Guild’s booth, #4201, throughout the convention, and online beginning next week.

Two Posters for TEAM UNICORN

For The Win! and Join the Team, both available for sale at Team Unicorn’s booth at Nerd HQ (an offsite location, at Jolt’n Joe’s, 379 4th Ave.), and at the California Browncoats Booth (A7/A8) throughout the convention.

Robonerdicorn T-Shirt for THE NERD MACHINE and TEAM UNICORN

The Robonerdicorn T-shirt is a collaboration between The Nerd Machine and Team Unicorn. Available at Nerd HQ (an offsite location, at Jolt’n Joe’s, 379 4th Ave.), throughout the convention.

Note: This is just a mockup. Check out the Team Unicorn booth to see actual colors and shirt styles!

TWITTER NEWS

I’ve been approached by the editors at UberSocial to be part of their Comic-Con coverage this year. If you use the UberSocial or Twidroyd mobile Twitter apps, you can subscribe to their UberGuide to Comic-Con, which has a bunch of topic “channels”, featuring twitter accounts hand-selected by their editors, to help you sort through the tsunami of tweets coming out of the con. I’ll be listed in the “Creative Folks” channel. I’ll also be featured in all the channels when I use the #giveaway hashtag to announce where/when you can find one of my Twitter nametag giveaways.

Follow me on Twitter!

Are you finding my site for the first time because of something you found at Comic-Con? Thanks for visiting! You can check out some of the other cool stuff I’ve done, such as the Serenity Travel Posters, the Battlestar Galactica Propaganda Posters, the Inevitable Betrayal T-shirt and more, by visiting my portfolio. Looking for my Twitter nametag giveaway? You can find it here.

Ignore this post everyone. I’m trying to access an old Flickr account that I no longer have the login info for, and I’m using this post to prove that I am who I say I am.

Hi Flickr people! It’s me! I promise!

Here’s a tutorial I did a few years back for deviantART. I needed to create an ad for a local rec program, featuring a picture of a young man happily working with a kid. The problem was, while I had the perfect stock photo for the job, the young man had a very serious look on his face. It didn’t look like he was having much fun, which really wasn’t the best look for the ad.

The solution? Perform face transplant surgery, Photoshop style!

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Yeah, this pretty much made my day. A musician I’m a fan of (Molly Lewis, aka @molly23), wearing the “Curse Your Sudden but Inevitable Betrayal” shirt I designed, doing a YouTube music video, filmed on the Dr. Horrible set.

Yesterday I got an email that made me one of the 100 happiest geeks on the planet. NASA — yes NASA — selected me to be one of 100 people to participate in their first-ever Space Shuttle Launch Tweetup. I was planning on going to this launch anyway (it will be my first), but now I’m going to get to go behind the scenes, meet astronauts, shuttle techs, engineers, and other crew members, tour the facilities, and then GET TO SEE THE LAUNCH FROM THE PRESS SITE. You know, the one you see on TV with the great big countdown clock?

I’m still hyperventilating a little, and I expect I will be until it’s over. The tweetup is scheduled for November 15-16, to coincide with the launch of Atlantis on STS-129, which is a mission to bring gyroscopes and other parts to the International Space Station.

I have been a huge geek for space travel — and the space shuttle — for as long as I can remember. Ashamed as I am to admit it, I can actually quote Space Camp (I first saw it at a drive-in somewhere in the middle of the country on a road trip with my dad. It was part of a double feature with Aliens of all movies). My first “where were you when …” moment was Challenger in 1986, and it was devestating. I remember getting books from the library about the shuttle, and trying to learn all the different components and parts, from the solid rocket boosters to the robotic manipulator arm. Unfortunately, I quickly learned I didn’t have a head for facts and figures like that, so I settled for being a hopeless space romantic. I never lost that sense of awe from the sight of that magnificent, elegant ship rocketing away from the planet on a column of fire and smoke. But I have only ever seen it on television. To see it in person was a dream I wasn’t sure would ever come true.

When I found out the shuttle fleet was going to be mothballed in 2010, I decided I had to go for it. Luckily, I had been bumped from a Delta flight in January, and had a $200 airfare voucher good for one year, which I used to buy tickets to Florida, where I’ll be staying with my good friend (and Save Hiatus writing partner) C.A. Bridges (@cabridges), who also happens to be one of the lucky few who were selected for the tweetup.

I was content enough just knowing that I’d get to see a launch in person, but I never expected I’d get to experience it like this. The press site, where we’ll be to view the launch, is just three miles downrange from launch pad 39A, where Atlantis currently sits. The closest public viewing area is at least 5 miles away.