Matt Kish, Moby Dick, A Temporary Tattoo, and A Trip To S.P.A.C.E.

Yesterday my girlfriend and I decided that we would go to Columbus, OH to stop in on Matt Kish and his wife, Ione Damasco at the Small Press and Comics Expo, AKA S.P.A.C.E.

Before we headed on our trip, Becca showed me this awesome temp tattoo that she applied with her younger sister, and it looked so cool we both thought it’d be rad if it was real, and of course if she designed it.

Incredibly cool temp tattoo.

In case you recognize the awesome last name of Matt Kish, he has written many articles for GGG! including an epic ten-week Ten Best Games of All Time feature that I assure you is much better than a lot of the other crap lists you see on the internet. Except for Tim Rogers and his video game manifesto. That’s a damn good list too.

After a brief detour to a pet store to see an ultra cute Chihuahua that my girlfriend, Rebecca claims to have the cutest Chihuahua face in the world - that I have no photo of, but my girlfriend has video of on her Flip - after which we headed into Columbus on I-70 and got lost because of a Google maps error.

Eventually thanks to the navigating skills of Becca we made it to the Ramada Hotel where the expo was taking place, and while we browsed only briefly searching for Matt’s table, we did see a few cool things, but we ended up buying nothing, except for a delicious ham, pineapple, and extra onion pizza on the way home.

The trip of course was grander than just purchasing comix, it was more about seeing Matt and his wife and of course having them and my girlfriend meet, and we accomplished just that.

Matt & I. I’m on the left.

Matt has been hard at work on an epic project of rad porportions. He’s been drawing an interpretation per page for all 552 pages of his copy of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, which will hopefully get a full-color art book deal sometime.

For real though, that would be incredible.

Matt gave me some copies of his recent books that I didn’t have yet and while looking at them last night I came across the last page of his first Solar Brethren book and found this thank you from him which I had no idea existed.

Wow.

That means so much to me. Thank you dude for thanking me. If I ever made something like that, I would be sure to thank my beautiful girlfriend, and also wonderful friend, Matt Kish.

You can find Matt’s wonderful artwork and Moby Dick project by clicking on his name in this post, or you can click here.

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