Fanime 2008, Friday

[maiki]

@maiki

With that spree out of the way I found my main man Bryan Wong, who jumped up and hugged me! I bought a couple of his books (too exhausted to go into, but they will get their own posts) and he is in the process of making me a drawing. I can’t wait to see how it turns out!

I actually had the drawing from Bryan in a borderless glass frame that I broke yesterday. Had it in there for years…

Next time I have out the scanner, I’ll scan it and post it. It’s great.

@maiki

We came back to our base of operations, and I proceeded to miss a panel that I really wanted to attend, run by Gilles Poitras. I was kinda bummed, but I missed it last year as well, so I wasn’t to bothered by it. And I was right not to be, since I got to chat with him for 15 minutes while waiting for the Hordes of the Hilton Elevators to clear out. He told me some things that blew my mind, and I can honestly say that when I think of the type of otaku that I am, I think of him. I look forward to his panel tomorrow!

I actually ran into Gilles near the end of 2019, during a random errand. It was great to catch up, and Gilles told me about a book project that sounded really cool. Oh, library otaku!