People are Wonderful
A very specific “people are wonderful and make me happy sometimes” a shout out to the artist Jonathan La Mantia for being a mad patient and trusting dude.
I stopped by his booth at HeroesCon to try and grab gnarly art books but my card kept getting declined, it took me a good five minutes to dig through the bag we had trying to find my phone to see if my bank called me about any fraud alerts (they did, like three hours later and I had to be like “no I DID mean to buy comic books from somebody who technically lives in Texas/Ohio/whathaveyou”) but they hadn’t at the time, and instead of being like “lol nope no art books for you” he told me to go ahead and take the books and the free HeroesCon print deal thing he had going on, and just to tip him the right amount on his website later.
It was just a really nice thing for him to do? I was one person in the hundreds at the Con and he just let me walk off with his merchandise with a verbal IOU, and didn’t even want to take my name or contact info when I offered it to him.
SO, if you can and you like really nasty scifi body horror art, check out his website and store HERE.
(like, the free print is called The Becoming (Gutt Ghost) and it’s just some guy turning into a bunch of stringly goop in a shape vaguely like a skull A+ very good art gives me the mad heebs but very pretty)
