Bruce Lewis: Pin-Up Artist

Bruce has posted a pin-up from his book-in-progress DRAW MANGA over at brucelewis.com. Looks great, Bruce!

Countdown to Oni-Con

It's almost a month away from Oni-Con. I'd like to thank all the people who've pre-ordered their Official Oni-Con T-Shirts. We won't be printing too many extra shirts up, so If you want to ensure that you can get an Official Oni-Con T-Shirt in your size you need to pre-order it right now! Head on over to the T-Shirt page and get yourself a part of Oni-Con before you spend all your money on Pocky in the dealer's room.

OtakuHELL: 4th year, 5 hours

Last year we did AnimeHELL on Friday night at AnimeFEST. This year OtakuHELL was scheduled for Sunday night from 9pm until 2am. I knew I had enough material to fill 5 hours, but I wasn't sure how lucid I'd be by 2am. Luckily I had an excellent support crew to help me out. I gotta give a shoutout to Ed, Bruce, Mundee, Doug Smith and the AnimeFEST AV crew who got me hooked up and running with minimal bumps.

I had alot of new material this year. Thanks to Gavv I had the AnimeHELL Archive DVDRs and could show HEINO for the first time (THANKS GAVV!!! You Roxxor!!!) and I'd just picked up JAPANARAMA Volumes 1,2 and 3 for some japanese commercials and gameshow hyjinks, and I'd spent the last week converting over the region 2 GRASSHOPPA! DVDs and downloading new stuff from The Prelinger Archives.

The older stuff went over well, too. In My Merry Oldsmobile had everybody singing along with the bouncing ball and we got through about two thirds of My Japan "TO WIN THE WAR!" and had a visit with The Cautious Twins who really need to move to a better part of town. Are You Listening and Toothache of a Clown horrified everybody and we got our Hitler fix with In Der Fuerhrer's Face.

My favorite point of the evening was Newport Ninja Squad! I'd mixed a SVCD alternating Newport Cigarette Commercials with the Ninja segments of Ninja Squad. I figured I'd only get to show a couple of the Newport commercials and maybe one sequence of the day-glo Nin-ja but ended up showing the whole thing right to the final duel between Ninja Master Gordon and Ivan the Red!

We had Panel Room One packed most of the night. In fact Security almost shut us down because we had people in the hallway blocking the doors. Maybe next year we'll get a bigger room.

I'd like to thank everybody who came out to see my wacky clip collection and hope you'll be there next year!

-danno!

Bruce Lewis at AnimeFEST

This Labor Day Weekend join us at AnimeFEST and visit the CDE table for all your T-Shirt and Button needs. PLUS, Bruce Lewis will be teaching his world famous Drawing Class! BE THERE!