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February 03, 2008
Wrap Party
Last night Katy and I hosted the wrap party for Too Late. It was mostly a way to thank everyone who participated in getting the book made, but also friends and family. Everyone seemed to have a great time and also enjoyed taking a look at the finished book.
The six months I spent working on this was the hardest I've ever worked on anything in my life, and I think that shows in the final product.
Thanks again to everyone who helped with making the book, and thanks again to everyone who could make it out last night to the party!
Here's some choice photos from the event below the cut. You can see more in my MySpace profile.
In my office I set up all of the pages on my drawing table and then on the screen I had the finished lettered and colored book. People enjoyed seeing the pages and then what I did with them to get to the final look.
Our first guests to arrive were of the fuzzy variety. And no, I don't mean hobos, because we all know hobos can't make it to anything on time. Up above is Korma, our six month old kitten, and here's my old gal Monkey:
Preparations were completed and we were readay to partay!
That's Katy trying out the salsa we made for the shin-dig. I say 'we made', but all we actually did was pour some Mama Sacorra's mix into a couple cans of tomatoes. Good shit, though!
Guests began to file in and the festivities were well under way. For some reason we didn't get any pictures of my mom and stepdad, nor of my buddy Brandon's wife Robin or the star of the book David. Camera shy, I suppose. My mom played Nintendo with Ashley, Robin's daughter and generally got into trouble with Roger breaking my stuff. I had to kick them out for being public nuisances. Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
This is Jamie and Andy. Jamie's going to be a lead in the next book, 'Too Soon', and Andy was a principal in 'Black Chamber'. Andy's character will be forever memorialized with the immortal line "I fucked your mother."
Here's me being serious:
And not so serious:
The hosts of your party, Mr Rob Schamberger and Ms Katy Ryan:
Possibly the only picture taken of us that doesn't completely suck. I'm not the photogenic type, if y'all couldn't tell.
Here's Korma and Dana. Dana was the model for Meghan Hannigan in the book.
Here's Jamie again, as well as the Butler's Cherryh and David. Funny story: David and I have actually known each other since Kindergarten. We hadn't seen each other since high school, and then one night Katy and Cherryh and our circle of friends had a get-together. Katy and Cherryh worked together at the Star, see. Anyway, David looks at me and asks my last name, I tell him, and he reintroduces himself to me. Small fuckin' world! David also lived a couple houses down from my best friend Brandon, who was also at the party. They probably hadn't seen each other in a decade or so. David plays Marcus Goodman in the book.
That's Cherryh. She modeled as Alderman Hannigan's secretary. Cherryh's got a new job at the Star as the mobile journalist (or MoJo as it's called in the biz) for their new imprint 'Ink'. We went to one of their functions Friday night. She's also a personal trainer, for any of you fat-asses out there looking to get in shape.
Here's Nick, who modeled as Everett in the book. He's really fun to draw with all of the defining features and he gets a lot of emotion across. He's also an amazing web designer.
Here's the lovely Ashley partying with the party animal Korma. She's my best friend Brandon's stepdaughter, and in case you couldn't tell, she's adorable. She and Korma wore each other out with a laser pointer.
And here's Brandon and I recreating our favorite wrestling match. Hey! There's nothing gay about professional wrestling!
Party people in the hizzouse!
Me supervising the proceedings. I had to write a few people up for misconduct. It's going in your permanent files, peons!
The devoured trough of salsa. People L-O-V-E-D it.
The international sign for "Bed time, baby." With the party successfully complete, Katy and I were plum tuckered out and ready to call it a night.
Thanks again to everyone that could make it out!
Posted by Schamberger at February 3, 2008 02:25 PM