At a recent Convention here in Calgary, Myself and my friend Mike had tables in Artists alley. Over all the con was made entirely of FAIL! It was really quiet and sales were sad. But because I had the time I drew some Firefly fan art. Well I finally got around to throwing colour at it.

Like everybody else in the world, I am a huge Firefly fan. One of the things I loved most was the western aspect of the series. Sitting on my shelves are tons of old Ace western novels and I wanted top mock up a cover like those.

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Figured it was time for a quick update.

The Sideshow Tarot decks are officially sold out again. There will be another printing but probably not for a month or so.  Technically I have a few decks left but this coming weekend I’ll be at Con-Version, (Calgary’s longest running Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Convention.) and I would like a few for the con. If you get a chance come down and say hi.

I have a few ideas I’m banging around for new Tarot but I am still working on getting my graphic novel finished first.

Well after a lot of bugs twitches and growing pains, it looks like the Sideshow Tarot Cards are officially on sale at the Mercantile. It’s Guinness Time

So the plan was that after Calgary Expo, I would take my remaining stock of Tarot Cards and sell em up at my online shop. Well Good news was that I sold out of my cards at the Expo. Bad news was that I had no product to sell on my site. So that meant I had to reprint my cards. For those of you who don’t know, my history with printers and printing has been a sad sad affair. This last time was certainly no exception but after some complaining about the terrible service (although excellent product) I got a decent deal and I decided to give them another shot. Well my history of printing issues is at least consistent. The issue this time was that in a large chunk of the cards, the dark reds decided to print out a vibrant shade of magenta. While a nice colour, it was fairly drastic a difference as to what I wanted. I contacted the printers and he offered to print me fixes and it’d be ready in a few days. Well yesterday was the few days it was supposed to be finished by and I called this morning to be told that the card stock I used was stuck in Edmonton, then a few hours later I got a call back and that now my card stock is stuck in Golden and that it’ll probably be a week before it arrives. Once, Just once I would like a printing job to go smooth and without fuckery. But barring disaster, next week cards will be done/boxed/packaged and ready for shipping.

So with 4 days till the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo all my attention has been focused on that. But for those of you eagerly anticipating the official release of Sideshow Tarot decks being sold on the website, your wait is almost at an end. I got almost everything ready to go and I am going to officially call May 1st 2010 the grand opening of the mercantile. Been to the post office and prices are WAY WAY WAY better than ups style shipping, so it looks like all I can do is send out stuff standard mail for the foreseeable future but on the bright side it may be cost effective to ship outside North America.

That is all.

You know, unless you’re in Calgary and wanna just come down and buy a deck in person. I’ll be in artist alley at table d15.