Finncon is over, I have just come back from the dead dog party, which once again was held at a sauna out in the countryside. The lake water was a bit cold tonight so I didn’t swim much, but the sauna was great and the whisky I brought seemed to go down well.

In the car on the way back to the hotel Charles Vess was telling us about the Totoro Forest Project. Apparently there’s an exhibition coming to the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco in September. I hope to get to see it at some point over the winter.

Also we had a very Finnish experience. Just gone midnight we were rolling into Tampere and Marianna said, “let’s take the scenic route”, because of course there was still enough light to do so.

There will be a proper con report later. Hopefully I’ll get it written on the train back to Helsinki tomorrow.