Utopia Moment sketches and writing by Jack Ruttan and friends

…Was better attended than you would think, considering the icy weather.

Still, stacks of comics have been drawn, but people (yours truly included) haven’t gotten it together to scan them, or try to print them in a zine.

I bet that that zine would have some sort of currency, since we’re a fixture at L’Escalier bar, once every month.

Here’s a shot of the gang. Our numbers only got greater as the night drew on:

I drew a surreptitious picture of one of the jamsters, and she seemed pretty happy with it.

Made it to Expozine Saturday. Pretty overwhelming. Didn’t do my usual thing of snapping and talking to a lot of the people there, but the place was packed with artists and writers. Did a little video you can see below of turning in a circle with my camera:

Took some shots of comic artists I hadn’t snapped before:

Julie Doucet

Marc Bell

Kate Beaton, who also appears fleetingly in the video above:

Think I’ll come back tomorrow, this time with my sketchbook, to draw some of the people. [Monday note: So sorry, was so busy videotaping people, I got too tired to do this!]

Here’s my idea of what it would look like if Cirque du Soleil made it into outer space.