Comments on: The weekend: Mid-Ohio, Brum Con http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/06/the-weekend-mid-ohio-brum-con/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:27:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Matt Schuler http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/06/the-weekend-mid-ohio-brum-con/#comment-2800706 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:34:20 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/06/the-weekend-mid-ohio-brum-con/#comment-2800706 I just found this posting and was surprised to see my photo up here! It seems as if I'll never completely figure out exactly who goes to my blog or not. I do enjoy FallCon and this past year's was pretty packed! It's always great to see Alex, and I do so love talking to him... -matt I just found this posting and was surprised to see my photo up here! It seems as if I’ll never completely figure out exactly who goes to my blog or not.
I do enjoy FallCon and this past year’s was pretty packed! It’s always great to see Alex, and I do so love talking to him…

-matt

]]> by: Matthew Craig http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/06/the-weekend-mid-ohio-brum-con/#comment-2429533 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:27:45 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/06/the-weekend-mid-ohio-brum-con/#comment-2429533 Brum was fantastic. I didn't make it to any events/bars - I didn't leave my table 'cept to go home - but the crowd was up for every little bit of madness I could shove under their noses, even if they didn't buy anything. We sold a magnificent number of <a href="http://www.bostinheroes.com" rel="nofollow">Bostin Heroes</a> comics (thanks to all the cards handed out by our favrit shoppies at Nostalgia &#38; Comics and Another World, Wolverhampton), as well as seventy-odd copies of my solo small-press books. I shifted twenty-three copies of my new Trixie Biker comic, Attack of the Sixty-Inch Pixie, which was about twice as many as I anticipated. All in all, my sales were <i>well</i> up on last year. My highlights included: - all the people who let me deface the front of their books with my UV security pen - the girl who stood patiently and watched while I drew a life-size, if somewhat demented red squirrel - the cosplayers who stood patiently while I drew one of them in the guise of Cheetara out of the Thundercats and tried not to make the chest logo look too much like Eraserhead - the moment when my best friend turned up with his wife and kids, as if making some kind of Peréz-esque cameo (Sonia Leong? They loved your sketch best) - the guy who worked out who the mad hermit from my new Trixie Biker comic was based on in three seconds flat - and the lady who came back after last year's show for hugs, more comics, and to give me a cushion with a picture of my dog on it. OH, YES. So, yes. Birmingham was fucking amazing. AMAZING. Much kudos to Shane and all the organisers. You should all come over next year. Next stop: Leeds. <b>LEEEEEDSSS.</b> //\Oo/\\ Brum was fantastic. I didn’t make it to any events/bars - I didn’t leave my table ‘cept to go home - but the crowd was up for every little bit of madness I could shove under their noses, even if they didn’t buy anything.

We sold a magnificent number of Bostin Heroes comics (thanks to all the cards handed out by our favrit shoppies at Nostalgia & Comics and Another World, Wolverhampton), as well as seventy-odd copies of my solo small-press books. I shifted twenty-three copies of my new Trixie Biker comic, Attack of the Sixty-Inch Pixie, which was about twice as many as I anticipated. All in all, my sales were well up on last year.

My highlights included:
- all the people who let me deface the front of their books with my UV security pen
- the girl who stood patiently and watched while I drew a life-size, if somewhat demented red squirrel
- the cosplayers who stood patiently while I drew one of them in the guise of Cheetara out of the Thundercats and tried not to make the chest logo look too much like Eraserhead
- the moment when my best friend turned up with his wife and kids, as if making some kind of Peréz-esque cameo (Sonia Leong? They loved your sketch best)
- the guy who worked out who the mad hermit from my new Trixie Biker comic was based on in three seconds flat
- and the lady who came back after last year’s show for hugs, more comics, and to give me a cushion with a picture of my dog on it.

OH, YES.

So, yes. Birmingham was fucking amazing. AMAZING. Much kudos to Shane and all the organisers. You should all come over next year. Next stop: Leeds. LEEEEEDSSS.

//\Oo/\\

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