The con’s over for another year. I’m writing this as Bob Ingersoll drives us up to LA for a week of meetings and friends and the inevitable trip to Amoeba Records.
The show went well today. Lots of cool things happened, and as usual, I can only tell you about some of them. A couple of comics guys, including comics legends Marv Wolfman and Dan Mishkin came by the booth. It’s just kind of nice to have the people I grew up reading now know me by name, and read my books.
I also got to meet Felicia Day from the oh-so-great “Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog.” Felicia plays Penny, and I met her on the Twitter. I gave her some of my funnybooks since she was in a superhero comedy, and I write one myself. Have I mentioned Love and Capes to you? Lord knows, I mentioned it to everyone else who walked by my booth.
Anyway, she is delightful and sweet and everything you’d hope she’d be.
I sold more than a few things. Sunday was my best day, but not by much. There’s only a seventy dollar difference between my high and my low, not counting Preview Night. I felt like I sold more on Sunday, but apparently not by too much. Friday was my best day for sketching, but I sold a big chunk of Powerful Women sketchbooks every day.
I didn’t really buy anything at the show. I looked at the Boba Fett USB drives, but for what they were charging for an 8gB drive, it’d better come with the source files for the Star Wars trilogy pre-loaded. It didn’t, so I passed. I tried to get Kyle Baker’s new drawing book, but that sold out. (Way to go, Kyle!) And that was about it.
Boothmates Bill Williams from Lone Star Press and Paul from Toon Tumblers both seemed to do well themselves. Always good to see that.
So now we’re heading up to LA, where I have one for-sure meeting and one probable meeting. I’ll also be seeing some friends that I don’t see very often. Friends are the best part, of course, but a little extra work can’t hurt either, can it?