For my last comic con related post I’ll talk about all the webcomic related stuff I did at comic con this year. There were a ton of webcomic folks there, promoting their wares, and I was able to meet a handful of them and get some cool signed hardcopies of their comics! On preview night I met Ben from the webcomic Shi Long Pang and got the brand new first volume of the comic. This was the book that I read the rest of the time waiting in line and I enjoyed it very much. I’ll be following this comic’s rss feed from now on. Sarah Ellerton was also there and I got to meet her and pick up the printed version of Dreamless. Her art is so, so amazing. I am ashamed to say that I haven’t yet read Phoenix Requiem, but I am anxiously awaiting it’s printed version so that I can buy it and read it one long sitting. I also got my first issue of Cari Corene’s webcomic Toilet Genie from her booth. Near there I happened to run into Jason Brubaker from the reMIND comic. He didn’t have anything to sell yet, but I got to tell him how much I am enjoying his comic, which was cool. Finally, on Saturday I hunted down Travis Hanson’s booth so I could get all the issues of The Bean comic. I also went to a couple of webcomic related panels. One on making action webcomics and the Webcomics Lightening Round from the crew at webcomics.com. Whew, that was a lot, comic con is awesome!
Comic Con Recap Part 2
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Comic Con Recap Part 1
We started off Wednesday night with preview night, and even though we got there three hours before the hall opened, we weren’t very close to the front of the line. Next year we will have to leave earlier. Once we got inside, however, there was the usual spectacle of booths, displays and freebies. I even got my picture taken lifting a car! It wasn’t a real car(obviously), but you actually had to lift it, and it was pretty heavy, which might have been why they made us sign a liability waiver 
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Comic con is getting so big these days that it is spilling out into the area around the convention center. Across the street there are huge ads as well as more booths and giveaways. Inside the Marriott hotel, adjacent to the con, there was a booth set up for a new TV network called the hub. Here you could spin a wheel to win a prize as well as pose for some photo opportunities.
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On Monday I will post about some of the panels we went to, as well as some of the awesome webcomic artist who were there promoting their work who I was fortunate enough to meet.
With everything going on last week, I forgot to update the vote incentive, but this week
is a nice one. I painted up that sketched of Momo that was up a few weeks ago.
Away in San Diego
Well, I am in San Diego, but the comic is still updating thanks to the magic of wordpress. This year I plan to try to learn as much as possible, meet some of my favorite artists, and failing that, at least get some cool swag.
Countdown to Comic Con
The schedule is online for San Diego Comic Con and I’ve been going over it. There are several webcomic panels that I think I will try to go to, seeing as how they are personally relevant to me now. I have also noticed on the websites of several other webcomics that I read that their creators will be there so hopefully I can get some signed books, sketches and other goodies. To prepare for the con, today I am going to wear my Dalek t-shirt, while listening to Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, while writing computer code, while thinking about webcomics. In that way perhaps I can prepare for the full blown sensory overload of geekiness that is San Diego Comic Con. I’m excited!
The vote incentive is a sketch of a weird little horse creature.
