I’m just about to head out to King Con for the second day of action! But before I do so, I want to catch my breath and talk a little bit about the first day.
The first thing that you need to know is that the show is extremely small. It is not on the scale of MoCCA or SPX by any stretch of the imagination. This is the first ever King Con show, but it ran smoothly. I was able to go in and set up with no hassle (too little hassle if you ask me; someone should have probably been checking exhibitors as they entered), the exhibitor-sides of the tables were placed too close together, but the customer-side aisles were wide enough that people could easily browse on either bank OR walk down the middle without disturbing one another.
It never felt too packed although it was fairly busy. Attendance felt low, but at one point, they stopped letting people in due to “fire codes.” I don’t know if that means that attendance was high or if the venue just has a low maximum occupancy.
My tablemate, L. Nichols sold well. Her Skycat poster is one of the most popular things I’ve ever seen. That thing couldn’t stay on the table (literally, the fan kept blowing it up)
As for me, I am selling copies of my new minicomic anyANYway #1. It features the first two comic stories displayed on this very website (”Taco Town” and “Enemies with Benefits”) and it’s got this classy cover:
I’m pretty happy that I got to meet JT Yost, Kenan Rubenstein, Joyce Brabner, Joey Manley, Tim Hall, Michel Fiffe and Kat Roberts.
I also saw friends and acquaintances such as Miss Lasko-Gross, Kevin Colden, Ulises Farinas, Jessica Abel (who says I don’t promote my comics enough; which is true), Vanessa Satone, Melissa DeJesus, Brian Musikoff, Matt Madden, Becky Cloonan, Adam Suerte, Mike Cavallaro (first person that I saw when I walked in), Amy Adams from Bergen Street Comics, Mike Turz and his buddy, my main man Pete Lazarski of ImaginaryMonsters.com! Pete and I were in the “Guild of Sequential Illustrators” club at Rochester Institute of Technology. I always hoped that a fellow RIT kid would enter the indie comics scene and now here we are! STAND TALL!
The church bell’s ringing (I live across the street from a church) so it is time to motorvate. I hope to see more faces at the show today, because I’ve got comics that need homes.
-AYO!
