We spent most of Early Saturday standing in long lines and slowly dying of heat exhaustion. Adam and I had a meeting at 3, which ended up getting pushed back until 6 so we crashed a panel for the welcome chance to sit down and surfed the net and then went down to artist alley. In the alley we found Jim Mahfood and talked to him a bit about the Boise comic book community and then talked to Steve Lieber about the recent optioning of Whiteout for a movie. Lieber had given Adam his first portfolio review back when Adam was still in high school and we usually spend a few minutes talking with him at every convention.

After our meeting we made our way to the Bondai Bar to score some True Blood merchandise for the girls who were stuck back at the hotel.

The girls finally caught a cab ( it seems even cab drivers don’t like going near Hotel Hellmouth) and met up with us. After they had a couple of drinks and checked the place out, we walked up to Onyx to catch music by Murs and Live art by Jim Mahfood and company. We ran into a couple other Boise based comics guys at the bar, that I hadn’t met before. I didn’t talk long because I was so excited to see Mahfood paint live. The live art absolutely blew my mind, at one point there were 4 artists jumping back and forth between six canvases- building these amazing, layered, multi-artist creations. Murs killed it live as well, sporting a Black Lantern t-shirt fresh from the con.

Made it back to Hotel Hellmouth in one piece and fell into the shower. I could have slept there, and it really would have made no difference if I had, since the hotel’s beds appear to have been fashioned out of concrete and pigeon down.