Jennie sketch from DragonCon '08

Kathy and I were not able to make it to DragonCon this year but our friend Dea did attend and brought back this awesome sketch from our favorite webcomic artist Jennie Breeden of The Devil's Panties.

Jennie linked to me!

W00t! Jennie Breeden linked to me! Excuse me while I have a fan-boy moment. (Happy dance!!!)

Although I do note that her link to me and the time-stamp from her reply to Jon's email are both awfully close to her Friday 20080926 comic....

With friends like these....

With friends like these.... Apparently my buddy Jon up in Detroit is trying get me into trouble and deserves a horrible evil smackdown....

From: Jennie Breeden
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:16 PM
To: Barron, Jon
Subject: Re: Hehehe...you've got to see this

Wow! thanks so much for showing that to me. It's awesome! I wouldn't even pretend to send him a cease and desist order.

That is just too cool

thanks
jennieB
www.thedevilspanties.com
www.geebasonparade.com

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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Barron, Jon wrote:

Jennie,

'ello, long time webcomic admirer and got hooked by a friend of mine that you just happen to know. It is this mutual friend of ours that I feel compelled to share something with you that I think you'll get a kick out of.

First, his name is Sam McClanahan and he is the husband of the couple that three or four years ago dropped of that huge freaken basket of chocolate goodies for you at DragonCon that you were so kind to include them in your webcomic doing just that. I believe that your choice words at the time were "Holy crap!" :) In any case, Sam is on this cake making kick now and well...check this out:

http://samthegiant.blogspot.com/2008/09/chocolate-jennie.html

I hope you get a laugh out of it as I did. If you want to play a joke on him, I'm a network admin at a law firm up here in Detroit and I'm sure I could get any number of attorney friends of mine to draw up fake cease and desist orders if you'd like to pull one over on Sam.

Keep up the good work!!

Jon Barron

Chocolate Jennie

Experiment 080809

While web-surfing I happened to run across an article that showed how to create custom cake topper decorations by using white and dark chocolate. Here are a couple of shots of my first attempt. Yes, I did use a signed Devil's Panties comic for my template. (Note the plastic bag in addition to the layer of wax paper.) Yes, I'm expecting an anti-stalking restraining order from Georgia any day now....




(Late back-log addition added on Sat 9/20/2008.)

DragonCon 2007

Adventure: 070831



DragonCon has been my favorite convention for almost two decades, but this was the first year I've tried to Cosplay a theme with a group. My friend Ken, my Mother, my Step-Dad Larry, and I all dressed up as Imperial Orc Marines from the book "Grunts!" by Mary Gentle.



Kathy took a slightly different approach and based her costume on Elwyn from the video game "Shining Tears".



I will note that it was Kathy who managed to get her picture taken with the MythBusters "Build Team"....



While we were at DragonCon we met up with our friend Aldea who wore a very nice "Fallen Angel" costume on Saturday that I sadly did not really get a good picture of.



After the parade we all marched over to Artist's Row to give my favorite webcomic artist Jennie Breeden of The Devil's Panties another basket. That's twice now. Once more and it becomes an official tradition! Jennie immediately tried out one of the odder candy choices in the basket called a "Harry Potter Fizzing Whizbee". I tried one myself and that face she is making is actually a pretty mild reaction....



(Transferred from the original http://www.samthegiant.com/ website on Wed 9/17/2008.)