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Gender: Male
Status: In a Relationship
Age: 42
Sign: Taurus

City: ATLANTA
State: Georgia
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/21/2007

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Thursday, May 07, 2009 
If you are bored, couldn't get STAR TREK tickets, whatever.... here's a fun waste of your time: Sidebar asking me to talk about me.  Whee!

http://www.sidebarnation.com/my_weblog/2009/05/ep-95-girls-girls-girls-the-ah-interview.html

Have fun!
4:45 PM 
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 

Hi!

 

I just wanted to emerge from the cave and thank everyone for the kind birthday wishes.  It’s very nice to be surrounded by so many kind folk.

 

Free Comic Book Day was a tad successful; I spent mine at Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Lots of fun sketching, meeting of folks, and lightning.

 

I’ll be in San Jose, California for SuperCon the weekend of May 16 & 17.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 
Getting ready to start the 2009 convention season.

I will be attending the 2008 Mega-Con in Orlando, Florida. The dates for the show are February 27 - March 1st and it is held at the Orange County Convention Center, Hall D, 9899 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819.

The Showroom hours are *Friday – 1-7pm, Saturday – 10am-6pm, and Sunday – 10am-5pm (*Pre-Advance ticket holders will be allowed into the showroom hall at 12 Noon on Friday February 27th.)

For more information on the show, the official site is:

http://www.megaconvention.com/

I will be attending all 3 days, and I will be at my table from opening til closing, all 3 days.

If you want a sketch (oh, those damn sketches...), be at my table in the first 10 minutes of the first day, and I will starting the List. I will try to get through the list, but I can only draw so many sketches in a day. To prevent people from lining up hours before the show, or worse, doing that race/stampede to the table, I take everyone's name who os there in the first 10 minutes. The rest of the weekend, I pick names off the list, out of order. We've tried many different solutions, from raffles to doing individual daily lists, and the method we use now is the Least of All Evils. Basically, everyone who gets on the list has the same chance. No gaurentees, just the same chance. I will try to draw as fast as I can.

Looking forward to seeing folks there! Drive safe!

-AH!-
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 
...4 Legged Love e-mailed me to thank me (and all of you) for helping defray the costs of Sasha's care.  Apparently, between Deviant Art, MysSPace, and my Yahoo Group, we were all able to raise over $1900!  Over 150 people donated! 
I cannot thank you people enough!
If anyone wants to check on Sasha, the link is:
http://www.4leggedlove.com/sasha.htm
It's really nice that so many people cared enough to donate, or wanted to but are suffereing from the current economic hardship.  Life's rough (get a helmet!) but as long as some people care to help others in need, then mankind will always deserver the oxygem it uses up!  :-)
I DO have a thing or two to say for the people with whom I crossed words over the subject of helping a dog over helping a person...
First, I never asked anyone to take money away from any human in need and divert it to a dog.  I only asked for help from people who could spare a buck.
Second, aiding ANY living creature in need is a laudible endeavor.  Dogs, especially, because any dog worth saving could end up in a home, and that home will be improved by having the unrequited love of a happy dog in it.  So, people WILL reap the rewards of this small charitable enterprise.
Lastly, I just had an unpleasant experience with a human being in need.  I was stopping at a restaurant to pick up dinner for Allison & myself.  A man was standing in the only available parking space, picking up loose change from the ground.  I assumed that he had dropped in it the dark; his cloth was not poor and he didn't look like a vagrant.  Well, I wasn't even out of my car (once I parked), when he hit me with his tale of woe, about how he needed money for food, he had lost his job, could I please spare some change.  Because I will always surrender spare change to your basic man on the street, I gave him a dollar.  Because he saw the handful of cash I had (my 5s and 1s that I was buying dinner with), he took my dollar and said "Man, how about a five instead..?"
I was STUNNED.  I told him NO, and that I needed the rest of the cash to buy my family dinner.  He walked away without even thanking me for what I gave him.
So, PLEASE don't tell me that it's better to aid a human than it is a dog.
And PLEASE don't answer this post.  I don't care to hear ANYONE'S differing opinion on the matter.  You have the right to your opinion, but not on MY little corner of the Internet.  Voice your poison eslewhere.
And if you DO have the time to post a differing point-of-view, I want everyone to look at your post and wonder how you could have used the time it took to write your dissenting opinion to better someone else's life.  Instead of trolling, arguing, or just posting for the sake of seeing yourself gain attention, why not take that time and donate a dollar to cancer research.  Or to a local homeless shelter.  Or any other charitable establishment that is interested in your time & attentions.
END OF DISCUSSION.
Everybody be nice to each other.
-AH!-
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Friday, January 23, 2009 
OK, I need the help of all my friends, fans, peers.... I'll even accept the help of enemies.


 


Everyone knows that Allison & I have two wonderful puppies; I've since become VERY sensitive to cases of animal cruelty.


 


A friend of mine in Toronto brought this to my attention, the case of a little puppy named Sasha.  Sasha has been exposed to just about as much animal cruelty from both humans AND other dogs as I can imagine.


 


This is her story:


 




 


(just remove the spaces and you have the link)


 


The vet caring for Sasha needs between $1500-$2200 to pay for Sasha's medical expenses.  There's a Paypal link, at the bottom.


 


If all of you donated one dollar, just ONE DOLLAR, we could really help a sweet puppy with a big problem.


 


I don't do this often, but I'm asking all of you for a little help.  There are thousands of you; please just throw a dollar Sasha's way.


 


It would really mean a lot to me if any of you could help.


 


-Adam
4:00 AM 
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 

I guess it's time for a big post.  There's a few things I'd love to recap and address…

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First off, my bad hand.

 

I want to thank each and every well-wisher that has posted kind words about my damaged drawing hand, and for everyone that came by at San Diego Comic Con 2008 to personally check in on me.  You folks are the best.  I've said it before, I don't have a MILLION fans, but I have 10,000 AMAZING fans.  Thank you so much.

 

I went for a follow-up visit today, and the prognosis is good.  My quack, Dr. Reddy, said that my torn collateral ligament is healing properly and should be OK in 3 to 6 months.  I was supposed to do lots of range-of-motion therapy to clear the fluids from my damaged joint, and signing 5000+ autographs at SDCC kinda really helped.  My hand is feeling better, and this week, I'm gonna try drawing for the first time in a month.

 

I guess I should talk about San Diego now… what an exhausting show!

 

It was a lot of prep getting ready for the show, especially with the A/C dying on us before we left!  Talk about a sweatshop.  We made it to the show, and we made it to the booth every day.  It was a great show, but as everyone knows, SDCC is overwhelmingly ginourmous.  Too much to see, too much to do, too much to buy.  And never enough time!

 

I had a great time as always hanging out with my great buddies at Sideshow Collectibles, whom I design the Marvel Comiquettes for.  We talked about lots of cool new stuff to work on!  Hopefully you can be exposed to it real soon…

 

I saw many cool things at the show, but my favorite was Night Owl's airship Archimedes from the WATCHMAN film!  I had a complete nerd-gasm when fanboy radio host Mark Walters showed it to me before Preview Night started last Wednesday.  WOW.  If the Owlship is any measure, Zach Snyder & crew have a great film in store for us.

 

A special thanks to all the fabulous cosplayers who stopped by my table!  I feel like a recharging station form electric cars when it comes to cosplay lovelies dropping by.  Special props to Kimmy and Stephanie for their wonderful Powergirl and Zatanna outfits!  The fabulous Miracole and her bottomless reservoir of cool outfits!  The wonderful Belle Chere showed up in the best She-Hulk I've ever seen in person….  And the gorgeous Ruby Rocket did a drive-by on her new Starfire get-up.  The only thing missing from the SDCC costume parade was an appearance by the incomparable Riddle.  San Diego was a poorer show for her absence.  All these lovely ladies stopping by made me feel 10 feet tall, and at the very least, bullet-resistant.

 

It was wonderful to see many of my heroes and favorite artists and writers.  Mike Mignola, who walks on the ground I worship, stopped by more than once.  Seeing original HELLBOY art in the hands of our industry's most unique living legend always makes me feel like I work in a very, VERY special field.

Art genius Tim Sale was on hand as well, to make me feel under-tanned and untalented: make sure you check out his new CAPTAIN AMAERICA miniseries with wordsmith Jeph Loeb!

 

I did a signing at the CAPCOM booth for my Chun Li contribution to the Udon STREET FIGHTER tribute book with old crony J. Scott Campbell, and Jeff's particular brand of amazingness always reminds of just how FUN comics are supposed to be.  Special thanks to the CAPCOM folks who let me play STREET FIGHTER 4 while waiting to start the signing.  It is a KILLER GAME, and you can play it with a bum hand.

 

Thanks also to Dark Horse Comics for letting me come by and sign!

 

Well, I can't remember all the wonderment that was the biggest show of the year, but I had a blast.  A big, fat, tired blast.  Tomorrow, the A/C will return coolness to my world, and I can unpack and et back to business.  ALL-STAR WONDER WOMAN, Sideshow designs and lithos, and whatever else craziness comes my way.

 

Thanks to a very special few that made San Diego Comic Con 2008 possible:

 

The unnecessarily tall & fabulous Jessica Savitz and her crew at EPI for the great printing!

 

The tireless Andie for helping run my booth!

 

And special thanks to Allison for making it all possible.

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Thursday, March 13, 2008 

This is the LA Times obituary for our friend, Dav Stevens.  At the end is the Hairy Cell Leukemia Foundation website; his mother would like anyone who cares  to express their condolences to donate a few dollars to Leukemia research.

I think this is a grand idea.  Seems ironic to celebrate someone’s life after they’ve passed by killing hundreds of flowers....

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-stevens13mar13,1,4444056.story

Also, if you can, go to you local bloodbank and donate PLATELETS.  It’s different than donating blood, and blood platelets are desperately needed by leukemia patients and burn victims.

-AH!

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 

Category: Life
Dave Stevens died yesterday, and that warrants something.

I knew Dave, but just barely. He was a very private guy, and he kept
his illness especially private, for reasons of his own. I wasn’t in
Dave’s inner circle of friends, but I knew of his illness these past
few years, and respected his wishes to keep it from becoming anything
public. I’m glad that he’s no longer in any pain.

Dave is one my greatest art heroes. Anything people like about my
work, you can lay the blame firmly on Dave Stevens. When I was
working at a small comics shop in Burlington, New Jersey in 1986, I
discovered Dave’s ROCKETEER and his amazing run of covers for Eclipse
Comics. It was like the moment in THE BLUES BROTHERS when Jake
receives his epiphany through the east window of a church. Dave’s
brand of classic American pin-up was uniquely his, no matter how much
he’d scoff at that comment. And he was one of the masters, no lie.

I had the fortune of meeting Dave at my very first convention as a
pro, in Chicago in 1988. Dave was the guest of honor, because the
3rd and final issue of ROCKETEER ADVENTURE MAGAZINE was coming out.
I was a lowly slob of a freelancer, just making his way in the
business. Dave had much bigger fish to fry that show, but he took
the time to look over all my work, a 90-minute job considering the
fact that he commented on and critiqued everything for me. He gave
me some of the most important advice of my career that day. The
biggest? "Ink with a brush, man!"

Dave Stevens had been showing me how to draw with his work, and now
was giving me the advice I needed to move forward. I left that con a
better artist than when I got there, because of a few kind words from
Dave Stevens.

Dave was one of the nicest guys you’d ever meet, but he was never
sappy about it. He was cool in the old school way, and the only guy
to pull off wearing a frilly pirate shirt at conventions before the
New Pirate Vogue came about. He was one of the best illustrators,
painters, and all-around talents to grace our industry.

I’m no good at eulogies, but I am good at drinking. Stick to what
you know. Tonight, I think I’ll dig out a trade paperback of the
ROCKETEER, pour myself a stiff one, and celebrate the life of a
genuine good guy who left the world a better place than when he found
it.

-Adam Hughes
March 11, 2008
Atlanta, Georgia
10:04 PM 
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