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first looking at the floor plan sent prior to the show. Ryan Yount, artist of the full-size comic Scurvy Dogs and half of the bare-bones minicomic Minisplit had his table up on the second level. "I was a little apprehensive when I saw the map," said Yount, "because it looked like we were going to be closed off in a second room, or something. But it turned out to be eas ily accessible from the main floor, and I thought the lighting up there where we were was even better, to tell you the truth. Up in that elevated level looking down on the other folks, me and my other minicomic soldiers like Dave Law, James Fulton, and bigshot painter Alex Pardee felt like kings!" Another guy doing the work was Long Beach City’s own Dennis Culver with his mini Funwrecker . "APE was incredible!" said Dennis. "Not only was my minicomic well-received, but I sold out of every copy I brought as well. I have to make more to fulfill the web orders that were waiting for me when I got home!" Now that’s a guy who was working the room… And there were a million other cool cats there hanging out and showing their wares and signing autographs, like Elizabeth Gencoe and her book Platform , and con mainstay Jeff Parker and his self-pubbed The Interman … just too many good books and not enough time. I’d go to APE the whole time if they made it a three-day show, it’s that good. Ryan Yount:20 Questions March 28, 2003 One night, walking the town, not being able to sleep since the last pot of coffee, I looked in a shop window and saw me a comic. It caught my eye like one of those little pointy hook latches that used to dangle on your porch screen doors? The kind that would fly up whenever you banged the door too hard? Caught my eye, just like that. That book I saw was "Scurvy Dogs." The guy who writes and draws it is Ryan Yount. Here’s his Twenty Questions: 1. Everybody knows that you're the "problem-solver" over at San Francisco's premier comic book shop, Isotope: the Comic Book Lounge. Everybody knows you’re the production co-ordinator and submissions editor for the publishing house AiT/Planet Lar. Tell Comic Book Resources something about you or "Scurvy Dogs" that not everyone knows. Ryan Yount: I was born in San Francisco in April of 1979. I grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills, digging holes, climbing trees, and chopping wood. I earned my bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of San Sometimes, a good time is what you make of it.

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