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Well, our first convention is in the books and well…I wish I could report that it went better. I mean, we sold some comics, posters, artwork and met a lot of cool people. I just wish it had been more, of everything. But I’ve always been a glass half empty kind of guy.
I’ll give a few highlights, however.
When we got there and set up I decided to look around before the convention started, get a quick overview of everything before the hoards of people filtered in. I went by the HalfPixel.com booth as I’m a huge fan of all four guys there. I met Kris Straub who had a bunch of his super-cute Jinxlettes out. I asked if I could buy one before the show started and he let me. Then he noticed “Stink Child Comics” on the badge and said he had seen our comics. My jaw dropped. He is far too successful to have seen our stuff! Over the weekend I had gone back to the table numerous times and bought books from him, Dave Kellett , Brad Guigar and Scott Kurtz . As well as a poster from Penny Arcade .
Our first customer was a strangish anime school-girl who looked at our stuff then asked me to draw a sketch of Abraham Lincolin. I kind of caught me off guard, but I did my best for being tired and surprised. I later heard she wasn’t too pleased with it. But hey, I got her $5… Later on a girl bought a drawing of Peach I had out.
Our neighbor to the right of us was a very skilled cartoonist named Scott Alan . I don’t think I could have asked for a nicer neighbor. He and his friends were always chatting with our little gang. I also got to meet a buddy of mine on DeviantArt, Sean Dietrich , another upstanding guy.
I also got interviewed by http://www.pac-fen.com/ . I haven’t seen the video yet, I was nervous and rambling, probably sound like an idiot but such is life 
I even found a guy who’s a Ghostbusters fanatic like I am. We both agreed that anyone from Ghostbusters could beat up anyone from Star Wars.
The second day’s highlight featured a man by the name of “Dr Foo” who claimed to be a clown with a death ray. He stood there for quite a while going on about hes a clown and we too were clowns and understood what clowns were about. How we have access to the death rays. He was a very….strange..man. But he bought a comic so good times, although I was terrified of the guy. The second time he came around I was out in front of the table. At least behind the table I had a buffer…If nothing else he gave us a lot to talk about.
Also on the second day we found out Phisch is a hell of a businessman. Every time I left he managed to sell something! So Phisch comes with us to every show regardless of whether he wants to or not.
So while we didn’t do great business, we met a lot of cool people and had a great time. I, personally can’t wait for next year.
-Skwerl
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