The t-shirt I took with me to Connecticon in 2008, and got signed by almost all of the webcomics in attendance!

THE LIST:

Garth Cameron Graham: Comedity, Finder’s Keepers
Blondie: Caf-fiends
Huw “Lem” Davies: Bunny
Peter Tarkulich: Bardsworth
Scott Ramsoomair: VGCats
Dave Cheung & Jamal Joseph Jr.: Chugworth Academy
Chris Malone: Blue and Blonde
Shawn Handyside: Staccato
Dave Lister: Paradox Lost
Michael “Mookie” Terracciano: Dominic Deegan
Brian Wilson: Hookie Dookie Panic, Geist Panik
Jeph Jacques: Questionable Content
Jennie Breeden: The Devil’s Panties
Dirk I. Tiede: Paradigm Shift
Darren Gendron: Dear Pirate
Brion Foulke: Flipside
Pete Abrams: Sluggy Freelance
Ed Ryzowsky: Geek Tragedy
Jennifer Brazas: Mystic Revolution
Hawk and Ananth: Applegeeks
Sam Logan: Sam and Fuzzy
Jeff Smith: Bone, RASL
Scott McCloud: Zot!, Understanding/Reinventing/Making Comics

Scott McCloud and Jeff Smith were NOT at Connecticon, in case there is some confusion. I got their autographs at a talk they did together at Ohio State in Spring 2008.

There's one signature here that I cannot identify! It's the one tagged as such in the annotations. Please let me know if you know who this is! It's driving me crazy.

UPDATE 4/28/09: The t-shirt has since gotten the signatures of about 10 more cartoonists that attended the Toon Award Exhibition in Okoboji, IA, so this picture is now out of date! ^_^;

9/3/33 - 1/15/07

This photo was taken on my birthday and we celebrated her last birthday two days later. (My son-in-law Cameron was born on my birthday so we were celebrating his as well.) Her cancer had been "inactive" since the previous February but returned in October.

I debated about going to work today but in the end decided it would be best to be busy instead of moping around the house. I got flowers and lots of hugs at work so it was the right thing to do.

For about 10 years I participated in the local Relay for Life cancer benefit and all that time I never guessed it would hit so close to home. My mom walked one lap with me the year before she died, a big smile on her face. She wasn't going to give up without a fight. Her sense of humor remained intake right to the end. When she was in the hospital over Christmas and New Years 2006/2007, she kept the nurses in stitches. One day she needed a procedure and wasn't able to eat or drink after but she could have a cherry popsicle. When she was done, her lips were red and one of her nurses asked if she had put on lipstick. She said yes, that she was a former lipstick model for Revlon and the nurse believed her. We named her Nurse Gullible after that. I told my mom she had to stop picking on the nurses or they would think she was crazy! P1030599