i get a myspace message tonight fromt he guy who writes the comic "my monkeys name is jennifer" you see, its my current myspace display name. his message asks if im a fan or if its just a coincidence. i explain that we've met on several occasions, not that i expect him to remember me.

the first time i met him was in san diego. id found out about his comic from a google search game whereyou type in your name followed by "is" all in quotation marks. you're supposed to document the best results. mine was "jennifer is a crazy monkey".

san diego con in and of itself was an adventure. i took a train from martinez to san diego, spent a night with a friend, then found myself homeless the next day. that night i slept in a pile of unused drain pipes with a bunch of street kids i met, and the next morning i headed to the first day of comic con sporting my big green backpacking pack. i looked like a turtle. i spent all day looking for the slave labor table in hopes of meeting johnen vasquez (which is a whole new story i wont get into tonight) and eventually met ken. i explained how i found his book, and asked him to draw a quick sketch in my sketchbook, the result was an anrgy looking monkey screaming, "damn you and your crazy google searches!" the rest of the trip was a mix of disaster and awesomeness. i finally ended up staying at a nearby hostel after being kicked out of yet another arrangement (that included me not really wanting to blow a cartoonist who never wouldve let me stay anyway) before heading out to long beach to spend my birthday at scot's.

then i met him at wizard world here in philly one year while i was hanging out with the philly cartoonists. i bought the graphic novel, and it came with a free shot of what they claimed was vodka....which i really suspected was pure rubbing alcohol...but it didn't kill me, so i guess they're forgiven.

anywho, we bat a couple messages around, and now i have a new myspace friend. hopefully i can catch him at one of the cons this year. not this year i suspect, but maybe next year i can make it to san diego....i'll have better sleeping arrangements this time.

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