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Free Comic Book Day Is Back!!!

May05
by Lin on May 5, 2017 at 9:22 pm
Posted In: Blog

Tonight I’m getting ready for Free Comic Book Day which is here again tomorrow- Saturday, May 6th.

What is Free Comic Book Day..? Well, it’s a day where many comic retailers here in the states (and some countries around the world) hand out free comics to fans. Comic shops also have sales, do other giveaways, have guest artists signing comics and doing sketches in-store, cosplayers, fun photo ops, and much, much more. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: #FreeComicBookDay, Bushi Tales, Comic Cellar, Comics and Collectibles, FCBD, free comic book day, Have Geek Will Travel, HGWT, Lin Workman, local comic shop, Memphis, Nicki Howe Workman, Rorschach
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“Rorschach’s Journal: April 1st, 2017. How I Created My Rorschach Cosplay- No Foolin’.”

Apr01
by Lin on April 1, 2017 at 11:13 am
Posted In: Blog

“None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with ME!” – Rorschach

  
I’ve been working on my Rorschach costume for several months now, and finally got to put my new face on and go out in public this past weekend to MidSouthCon (after a couple trial runs at Memphis Comic Expo and Southern Fried Comic Con). Thankfully the Memphis weather was good for the show, and many folks knew who I was supposed to be. Since I’ve posted progression shots of the costume creation on my Facebook page a lot of people knew who was under the mask, too. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: @NWorkmanPhoto, airbrush, Alan Moore, Amazon, Barbara Kesel, bean juice, beans, closet cosplayer, Closet Cosplaying, Comic Cellar, Copic markers, cosplay, cosplayer, costume, Createx, Dale Martin, Dave Gibbons, DC Comics, Doctor Who, Dr. Who, eBay, geek travel blog, Goodwill, Gorilla Glue, grappling gun, Have A Nice Day, Have Geek Will Travel, Jackie Earle Haley, John Higgins, Len Wein, Lin Workman, Marcy Meeker, Memphis, Memphis Comic Expo, Memphis Comics and Fantasy Con, MidSouthCon, Nerf, Nicki Workman Photography, Nite Owl, Pense Productions, Rorschach, Rorschach grappling gun, Rorschach mask, smiley face, Southern Fried Comic Con, Toy Robot Photography, Unclaimed Baggage Center, Walmart, War Doctor, Warner Brothers, Watchmen, X-acto, Zack Snyder
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“Check Out” the Animation and Comic Book Art Display at Hernando Library

Jan21
by Lin on January 21, 2017 at 12:54 pm
Posted In: Blog

This month I set up another display in the Hernando Public Library in my hometown of Hernando, MS. It’s in the west lobby entrance off of Commerce Street. They have two display cases that they let locals decorate- one large one (on the right in the photo above) and one smaller one (on the left). Normally the display lasts for a month, but mine gets to stay up for two months- January and February. My wife Nicki and I have done several other displays since we’ve gotten married- Star Wars, Harry Potter, hockey, the Batman TV show’s 50th anniversary, DC Comics, and a comics/live action themed one. They’ve always goten a positive reaction from visitors and we always have a lot of fun putting them up.

This new one is a mix of animation art (original painted cels, background art, animation drawings, character sheets, storyboards, animation bible) and original comic book and comic strip art (pages, covers, and pencil roughs) taken from my collection. I’ve been collection animation art for a few years now, and comic art since the ’90s. I really wished I had started sooner. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: Alpha Centurion, animation, animation cels, animation model sheets, Batman, Batmobile, Beetlejuice, Bob Burns, comic books, Comic Geek Speak, Dean Zachary, Extreme Ghostbusters, Filmation, geek travel blog, Geeker, Ghostbusters, Greg Cravens, Harley Quinn, Have Geek Will Travel, Hulk, J'onn J'onzz, Jane's World, Joe Staton, Kathy Burns, Lin Workman, maquettes, Martian Manhunter, Memphis, Mike Norton, Mississippi, National Cartoonists Society, original art, Paige Braddock, Pam Eklund, Scott McCloud, SEC/NCS, Spencer Tracy and Kong, Terry Beatty, The Buckets, The Ghost Busters, The Real Ghostbusters, The Waiting Place
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When Life Gives You Snow- Buy Comics! How I Supported My Comics Habit As A Kid

Jan06
by Lin on January 6, 2017 at 5:40 pm
Posted In: Blog

Hey, gang-

Well, my wife Nicki and I woke up to a bit of a surprise this morning…SNOW DAY!

For some folks up north our “snow storms” would be considered flurries, but here 1″ of snow or more can be a “Snowmageddon” and practically shut down areas around the mid-south. What little snow we get usually melts, then freezes, and then has more snow fall on top of it. It can be pretty treacherous, and Memphis drivers aren’t all that good when the streets are dry.

Just the slightest hint of snow in the weather forecast can have folks around here freak out and descend like ravenous locusts on the local grocery stores, desperately searching for milk and bread- because apparently none of us can survive a snow day here without them. I have never understood it. We can go for a week or more in good weather without them, but store shelves can be emptied almost immediately by this snow induced phenomenon. Luckily for me I did my grocery shopping yesterday on the way home from work before any of the weather hit and when they still thought we’d just get light flurries. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: 7/11, Archie Comics, Cape Comic Con, comic books, DC Comics, Frank Giacoia, geek travel blog, Geeker, Green Goblin, Harvey Comics, Have Geek Will Travel, Hoth, Lin Workman, Marv Wolfman, Marvel Comics, Marvel Team-Up, Memphis, Mid-America Mall, newstands, Nicki Howe Workman, Nova, Now And Laters, Photon, Sal Buscema, snow, snow day, Snowmageddon, Spider-Man, Spiderman, spinner racks, winter
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Hatch Show Print Tour And Playing Tourist Around Downtown Nashville, TN

Dec04
by Lin on December 4, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Posted In: Blog

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Last weekend my wife Nicki and I were up in Nashville, TN for a Nashville Predators hockey game. They were playing the Winnipeg Jets on “Black Friday“, and won the game 5-1. Always a much more enjoyable road trip to SMASHVILLE when the Preds win.

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While Nicki was taking shots of the Predators’ pregame on-ice warm ups downstairs,  I was hanging out in the lobby watching Mark Howard and Terry “Crispy” Crisp do the pregame show on Fox Sports South.

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I joined in with some fans and a couple of the Nashville Predators Energy Team girls. The guy in the middle with the ballcap on came down from Winnipeg for the game. He said he hadn’t thought about ever visiting Nashville until he saw the past NHL All Star Game Weekend in Nashville (I still need to do a blog post about that trip). After watching that on TV he said he needed to come see the town for himself. We all were on TV behind Mark and Crispy. That was the first time I’ve gotten to do that and it was a lot of fun. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: Broadway, country music, Country Music Hall of Fame, Elvis Presley, FDR, Fox Sports South, Franklin D. Roosevelt, geek travel blog, Geeker, Hatch Show Print, Have Geek Will Travel, Herbert Hoover, Jesus, Johannes Gutenberg, Johnny Cash, letterpress printing, Lin Workman, Mark Howard, Nashville, Nashville Predators, Nashville Predators Energy Team, Nicki Howe Workman, Printers Alley, SMASHVILLE, street musicians, Tennessee, Terry Crisp, Tin Roof
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