Wow!! What a weekend! This has been the best time i have had at the CJMC so far! I had the most fun, i earn the more income and i saw the most people that stopped by to chat with all of us! XD

Ok, by the night of the 19th of this month i was talking with and about the preparations. Last time at the Animex, the independant artist's tables were not assigned and every table was up for grabbing. So we asumed it would be the same. Turns out we were wrong, ALL tables were assigned but they only told a couple of people that very same night. ;_;

FRIDAY...

I woke up very early and went to Cintermex at 7:00 AM to try to snag 3 tables (all of us Katbox and Magolobo as I was asked) only to discover 3 things that sent our plans to the drain. First: Not a single structure was yet build, they were just barely arming the stands. Second: They wouldn't let ANY expositor inside until 10:00 AM. And Third: Faustino (the organizer) wouldn't let me in because the table was under Jeso's name... and he was still arriving via plane at that time!!! ;_;

So i was left outsie of Cintermex as a hobo with a DS playing New Super Mario Bros. It was until later that arrived with who was presenting "Pedacito de Alma" and i actually had someone to spend some time talking with! He came with a friend he intrudiced me to... but whose DA eludes me at the moment (En serio, necesito su DA para ponerlo en créditos). After a bit arrived and we had more to talk about now. had arrived some days earliers and stayed at Mago's home, but at this moment Chalo was already inside and i couldn't get in yet! ;_;

Anyways, Hino invited us to have some tacos at the legendary secret restaurant in Cintermex but i had a duty to do. Sadly, when i saw the table distribution, it turned out that all of us would be in very different places. Luckily i found out Sergio Hernandez outside (i NEED his DA if he has one...) (wait a minute... or was it Felix? i can't remember O_oU ) and he wanted to trade tables with us. Turns out it worked just awesome because we would be in the middle of an isle and the table to our right was from Morto Comics who didn't show up for the whole weekend. So we claimed both tables for Katbox.net so we could be together.

By then it was 11:30 AM and it was time to go to the airport to pick up who was also coming with us. My best friend gave me the favor to go pick up Ronaldo from there. We waited... and waited... and waited... turns out he thought it would be awesome if he got down from the airplane at the end... >_>

It was quite fun, because he just speaks english and portuguese. And the rest of us spoke spanish and english. So to comunicate we were jumping from language to language and yet we managed to do so properly! XD

We arrived to Cintermex and came to greet us. At the same time the Chihuahua team came. I got to say hi to , , , and . We finally got to our tables and arranged them. That is when i finally met Chalo in person after 5 years! I think started laughing of nervousnes instead of actually introducing ourselves. Anyways, we moved to the traded table, Chalo moved to the abandoned table and Mago moved to Chalo's ex-table.

After that arrived and i went to greet him (i also bought the new Cerdotado, first client of the weekend!). We had a bit of a mess up (because of my fault by organizing the table switchiing) that we were able to fix because Jeso has a politician's tongue DNA or something. I was really nervous and a bit ashamed, but we managed to fix the issue and the Katbox staff managed to stay together. That day, only was at Polo's table. , and didn't show up on friday because they were working. -.-U

Anyways, basically the rest of the friday we stayed at our tables just chatting and selling stuff. I only made 20 pesos that day. But Jeso's new prints sold out in a very frightening way. I also got to say hi to who i had not seen until this time. Turns out she was secreting some sort of pheromones because she got quite a group of guys after her attention! X3

I think it was around 5 or 6 that arrived and i went to deliver one of the staff bracelets and he managed to come all 3 days because of that. Sadly, i never got to see what there was at the comic convention because i spent the whole weekend in the independant section.

Let's see... next to us there was the table with Sergio, Felix, Momo (with the new tome of Felinia va a Paris and a sketchbook) and !

In front of them we found Luis Alberto García with his comic strip "Chicomuerte, el asesino inocente". I actually thought it was going to be a very cinical one, but it was quiet cute and whimsical. ^^

Next to them it was the new comic for the RPG Tiamat from our friends of Editorial Ether. arrived late and it is always awesome to see her. In that table we found who made the pencilworks and inks for the comic and my friend who was helping at the table and made some funny goodies for the event.

Next to them i found the table with who i didn't get to talk with and the other friend. Actually i was kind of invisible to them... ;_; *sad*

There was also selling prints and comics colored by him. I managed to get issue 5 and 6 of Valiants and stayed a bit to talk (i am WAY too shy). He told me that the new Ultrapato graphic novel will be released next year, i will be looking forward to it.

and were also at their table. It was funny because they were sitting and the table was decorated just the same as some of the stuff they had done. It was a very funny mirror! XD

was also there, didn't say Hi now that i think of it... X_X

was in the same table with Hino. He was drawing a lot! =3

And what i thought was the must funny and awesome new adition was who was presenting the webcomic Catscratch! Her artwork is crazy and hilarious! I really fell in love with her stuff! X3

Also there we found and ... i think i also didn't go to say Hi! O_OU

I forget who else was there... i am kinda of sad because of it! ;_;

Anyways... friday ended, people got sick and we went to the Hotel Fundador where the Chihuas gang, the katbox team and Mago were staying. That place is VERY odd... as Ronaldo said, it looked like something out of Escher. But we ran into some "bad service" so the guys decided to switch hotel the next day. After that we went to Tierra Libre to have some dinner and hang out. Daniel (hamster) was tired so we had to leave early... later i was told by Chutkat that after i left the place became beautiful beacause of the glow in the dark decoration.

SATURDAY

First thing in the morning, i ran into Hino while buying supplies from the Oxxo at Cintermex. So we hang out for a bit, then we went to where Chutkat and Greki were and decided to get breakfast together. This is when Hino showed us the magic of secret passages of Cintermex and we discovered this very nice restaurant that served very generous quantities of food and at a very cheap price. We had a very nice time.

That day :iconlordbrocoli: arrived and i think he joined Zu and Cessarin at their table.

This was the busiest day for us all! And i spent the whole day drawing comissions and i was lucky to get a lot of cash too! But being this busy meant that i had little time to chat with my pals. ;_;

By this day, Ronaldo also got some internet access and started a livestream of the event for the Katbox.net forums. The forumites said we "looked too normal"... ;_;U

This day flew by very quickly. At the end of the day, we went to the aftercon to hang out with other artists and have some of the famours Tornerburguers. Jeso, Chalo, Nekonny, Mago, Silver, Hamster and I were the ones that went there. Chutkat, Greki, Stilo and the rest of the Chihuas gang went to their new hotel.

So... to get to the place we got a little handdrawn map... which turned out to be stronomicaly wrong! Hamster, Nekonny, Chalo and I got lost. We learned how awfully placed the streets names were made and instead of 3 blocks away from Cintermex we were actually like 18 blocks away when we arrived. We went to get some goods to drink and had some cake and hamburguers.

After that we went to the hotel where the rest of the gang had gotten us some Pizza from RedSpot!!! <3

We hanged out at their room where Thiefo was giving Chutkat an interview. We stayed until 2 AM when Chutkat, Greki, Hamster and I left.

SUNDAY!!!

That day i didn't sell much, i spent the day drawing gifts for my friends and giving stuff away to the other expositors. Nekonny wasn't able to broadcast live again because of the way to expensive internet access.

This is the day when i finally saw both and whose cosplay outfit this time was of Gado from Bloody Roar.

I also saw and this day. They didn't stay long and Sasa was sick! ;_;

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that both Saturday and Sunday came to visit and stayed to chat. I love her stuff, it is very quirky (same as her person)!

We also found two girls that also made very neat outfits! and They came was Amaterasu and the Kyuubi from Naruto respectively, they had really awesome cosplay heads.

We also got some interviews (too shy to live).

By the end of the day... Gado didn't qualify at the first places of the Cosplay event (you'll do bettet on March pal) and all of us at the artist zone went on a shopping/trading spree with each other.

This time and didn't manage to come. I really missed Garury and she sent each of us at the Katbox table some very awesome gifts!! ;_;

Missed this time was also ... ;_;

And the visitors this time: and many others!
Anyways... the convention ended and we all went to the hotel to hang out. We went to a local restaurant to have diner and Cabrito!!!! And we stayed up very late to see randome stuff on youtube and ytmnd! XD

This time i stayed at the hotel to sleep... slowly parasiting my pals and the money they spent to pay for the room. We told each other a lot of anecdotes, traded merchandize and gave away original drawings and prints! We also passed around our sketchbooks. X3

EXTRA DAY MONDAY!!!

This was the day to relax! Thiefo, Pavel and Lepre had stuff to do and left us. We moved back to the Escher hotel were we left our luggage and then tourist time started. Stilo joined us during his lunchbreak at the job. But after mid day Nekonny had to take the airplane and it was the second goodbye of the day. I got a cab for him and he parted ways.

After that, both Gina and Alejandra had to go for an interview and the opening of an exposition of them at the Oshimai. Stilo took Jeso, Mago, Chalo and I to a pretty good restaurant and he went back to work. We spent some time shopping at plaza Morelos, specialy Mago and Chalo who were getting souvenirs. Jeso and I discoved that ATM gave away free money! (XD he got two hundred pesos for free) and i showed them Monterrey Comics where Mago was picking up dibujartes and telling us anecdotes about them.

After the interview... Pavel suddenly materialized in front of us again and joined the gang! We went to look at the Macroplaza and took the ride of Paseo de Santa Lucía. Tood photos at the city hall, the statues at the Macroplaza and then went to get some snacks.

Turns out that Stilo materialized there by coincidense also and joined us again! XD

So we hanged around a bit more, exchanged some more stuff before going home. Then Chalo and Mago had to go take a bus for Mexico City. We said goodbyes and off they went.

The remaining 6 of us stayed a bit more at the hotel. Until it was time to leave the Chihuas gang to rest. Stilo, Pavel and I walked all the way together until each of us got their own separate ride and went home.

It was a very awesome time, i am very happy about it. Great time to meet online friends from a long time in person and to finally be able to add them to the list of friends i have seen in real life!!

I few words... IT ROCKED!!!

See you! And thanks for coming by! ^^

Comission Information

Sketches: $5.00 - [link] - [link]
Inked: $10.00 - [link] -
Digital with abstract background: $25.00 - [link] - [link]
Digital color with background: $35.00 - [link] - [link] - [link]




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