Felicia Day

Wow, this place looks great! Maybe because it’s on a brand spankin’ new VPS Server! As we speak The Guild site is being transferred over as well (Thanks Edgar) so I’m crossing my fingers that I won’t be panicked with having to pick them up off the floor and get them working again in the near future. Thank you Penny Arcade for driving so much new traffic here. I do appreciate it…in the end. And hey, it’s not so bad being immortalized in a PA Comic and being Blogged about:

I can’t wait to meet the artists at PAX in Seattle next month. (We will be screening The Guild season 1 there).  I will be looking for that grooming, ha!

I’ve had quite the information overload this past week.  So much has happened I don’t even know what to blog about, it’s been overwhelming!  Comicon was the most amazing experience I’ve ever had.  Not only did I get to meet thousands of people who knew me on sight (such a strange experience), but I’m sure pictures of my half-opened eyes/mouth are immortalized in countless cameras as we speak.   Check out my ComiCon Flickr Album for a small sampling of my own photos, eyes open mouth closed.

I can’t go over it all, but I will just touch upon a few highlights from Comicon:

• Hanging out at the Browncoat booth with the best volunteers in the whole world.  You guys made my weekend, thank you
• Walking out on stage at the Dr. Horrible Panel and seeing about 3000 roaring fans.  I now know how rock stars feel:  And it is good.  I swear I almost started crying, Miss America style.
• Being caught Twittering at the Dr. Horrible Panel.  Share my mortification with the video clip. Twitter should be paying me for the influx of traffic.
• Definitely geeked out when meeting Masi from “Heroes” at the Sci-Fi network party, but then we ended up talking about WOW and video games a lot.  Best party chat I’ve had in a while
• Another memorable moment was when a Browncoat volunteer connected me to Jaqueline Carey, author of Kushiel’s Dart and one of my favorite fantasy series.  I now know what it feels like to become an incomprehensible stuttering idiot in front of an admired personage.  In fact, I have video proof.  Never can be accused of protecting my image.
• Feeling like a proud parent as my other cast members were recognized and photographed and signed things.  I’m so excited for them, and with the DVD sales we will be back paying them for the first season, so thank you if you bought a DVD!   If you have pics of any of The Guild cast, please submit them to The Guild Group on Flickr.

I’m so sad that it’s over, but now I need to get back to the grind, and prep for as big an event for NEXT year’s Comicon!  Writing Guild Season 2 and my other project with Machinima (still in development) is going to take up much of my next month.  Also, there’s that little thing of getting mainstream jobs to pay the bills   But the thing I take away from this whole experience is that I love what I’m doing on the web.  Working with people I love and adore like the Horrible crew and The Guild cast, and being so supported by fans…I couldn’t ask for more in life.   Well, maybe some free time to play video games.

I’m too tired to go into it, but on the way to ComiCon this morning at 7am,  me and my producer Kim Evey got stuck in a 7 hour traffic jam today.  If you follow my Twitter you probably though I was going through a war zone, LOL.  I barely made the 3-4 signing at the Browncoat booth!  I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to be trapped on the freeway going through a military base with no exits or bathrooms.  Especially if you have to pee  

Anyway, it was so exciting to be able to meet all the fans of Horrible and The Guild, when I FINALLY got to the convention center.  I can’t wait for tomorrow when the full Horrible power comes to fruition!

Check out my first interview at Comicon with Mahalo Daily.

Night night!

Heading off to Comicon tomorrow, I’m sooooo frazzled!  But in a good way!  I have no idea what to anticipate, but I just bought the most kick-ass sneakers from Niketown so I’m well-shod and will be comfortable.  I would link a picture but the Nike site is so horrendous to navigate it would be weeks before I got a screenshot.  I’ll try to post a picture from Comicon, haha.    I also bought myself a white paint pen as well (I got the rest of the cast silver sharpies, haha) so I’m ready to sign DVDs at a moment’s notice and have a few protein bars in my purse for any hypoglycemic moments.

I hope to be updating while I’m there.  I’m doing a lot of interviews (which I’m kinda getting tired of hearing myself do haha) and bought myself a cool little Flip Mino camera.  I’m wondering exactly how to use it, do I upload them to YouTube or Vimeo or what?  Is there anything interesting I can film to show people at all?  I might feel a little uncomfortable without a script, but we’ll see.

Also I did a podcast interview with Gamers With Jobs so check out my podcast banter starting around minute 36.  I wish you could link to a specific time in a podcast, but you can fast forward, or listen to the gaming banter leading up!  There’s a little bit of Horrible stuff and a lot of Guild stuff.   Listening to the podcast interviews I do is making me innured from hating the sound of my own voice, that’s a plus!

I hope to meet a lot of people down in San Diego, please check the Guild website for the exact hours we’re signing.  You’ll probably see a lot of us wandering around the Con as well, I plan of getting several autographs myself from fantasy authors!

Wow! So, Dr. Horrible, all three parts are streaming now, and people are so passionate about it! (Especially the ending ) I can’t tell you how exciting a process this has been, the filming, the singing, the launching…it’s been such a thrill! My aunt, who runs a children’s theatre in Madison, Ala, said that her students were walking around singing, “On the Rise” all day. So cool. And I’m not one to be giddy about press, but I did geek out when, on the way home from filming a commercial yesterday, I was listening to NPR (as usual) and theyran a story on the show. I flipped out!! Hearing Linda Slidell say my name was a thrill beyond compare.

Anyway, now that the streaming is over, the Comicon push is looming on the horizon, and man is it a lot to juggle! Friday is pretty much all day Horrible: Panel, signing, late screening and press in between. I’ve never been to Comicon so I have no idea what to expect, but I know it’s gonna be everything I can’t prepare myself for, so I’m vowing to just “go with the flow”.

On top of being an actor though, I’m a producer, which adds a layer of stress/fun to it all. The whole cast of “The Guild” will be signing and greeting fans for an hour or two each day in the Browncoat both. Please check The Guild website for the specific times. We’ll be selling the DVD out of the booth the whole time and signing during the designated hours. I’ll be there for most of the slots I believe, but the other cast will be there covering if I’m not, so please stop by and say hi, they would love it! It’s very exciting to have them meet fans of the show, because they don’t interact online with them like I do, so it will be a big thrill to have people recognize them

I know to bring snacks, comfortable shoes and hand sanitizer (I get colds easily) but if you have any other tips, please post them here! Also, if anyone sees any fantasy author signings I may have missed, alert me to them! I intend to be a fan there also