{"id":1193,"date":"2012-03-19T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2012-03-18T13:20:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T17:20:41","slug":"why-didnt-i-make-the-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/why-didnt-i-make-the-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Why didn’t I make the connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I went to Megacon a few weeks back (or more – I’m so bad at time now a days) and I ran into two great people named Tara and Paul Abbamondi.\u00a0 They probably didn’t realize that I thought they were so great, ’cause I’m not good at getting that out there, but I was charmed by their comics and walked away with a couple in hand.<\/p>\n

Now in the present, I’m looking up their sites to share them with you and I find on www.tarabba.com<\/a> a link to the comic she did for 24hr comics day and it looked familiar.\u00a0 So, I went back to the post that I did about 24hr comics day<\/a> and saw, yes, I had found her before.\u00a0 What a fabulous message from fate!\u00a0 Only I wished I’d have remembered how I admired her work already when I first met her.<\/p>\n

I am now going to faithfully follow her and Paul Abbomondi, from whom I bought 31 Horribly Bad Horror Comics<\/a>.\u00a0 His journal comics, These Sweet Memories<\/a>, brings out the voyeur in me. \u00a0 The chuckling, sighing, commiserating voyeur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I went to Megacon a few weeks back (or more – I’m so bad at time now a days) and I ran into two great people named Tara and Paul Abbamondi.\u00a0 They probably didn’t realize that I thought they were so great, ’cause I’m not good at getting that out there, but I was… Continue reading Why didn’t I make the connection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-comics","tag-conventions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2969,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/24-hour-comickers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":0},"title":"24 hour comickers","author":"leems","date":"November 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The other great thing about 24 hour comics day is finding all those other comickers who were doing exactly what you were doing.\u00a0 It's too bad that the group events don't post participant web-sites, but there are several individual\/web participants listed on the 24 hour comics site. 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