Back From San Diego.

9 Comments | Posted: July 27th, 2009 | Filed under: Meta | Tags:

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14 hours door-to-door travel getting home, so I’m not in the best of moods. You probably know this if you follow me on Twitter.

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Finally got to meet the internet’s own Dorian Wright along with Employees Tim and Aaron of Ralph’s Comic Corner. The amount of gossip concerning Mr. Michael Sterling and his (my lawyer says I have to call them “alleged”) abuses of their goodwill and supple young flesh was, frankly, a bit disconcerting.

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I was on a panel about marketing your indie comic. It was all very sudden – I was brought in as a last-minute replacement for Shannon Wheeler – but I think everyone had a good time. BOOM!’s Chip Mosher quite rightly dominated the event and Heidi MacDonald’s feedback on how to get noticed by sites like The Beat was really great. Outside of reminding people that they’ve always got to hustle and they can’t act like they’re too hip to market themselves, I just kind of sat there and made farting noises with my hands, which seemed to work pretty well.

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I said I wasn’t going to spend anything. $600 later, well…

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It should be noted that a big chunk of that was me buying the original art from my two Cthulhu Tales stories from Joe Abraham, though, so I think that’s fair enough. Joe and I may be doing a thing. It’s all very vague at the moment but he wants to start drawing more and I’m always looking for artists to bend to my will. No, I will not give you his contact information, Chris Sims of the Action Age.

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I’m very sure I’m going to miss some of you, but it was great to see Jenn, Paul, Darlene, Jodi, Ren, Sherri, Nate, J. Ho, Matt, Gillen, McKelvie, Marc, Layman, Starros, Jeff, Vendetti, Les, Ryan, Ryan’s Hot Wife (I hope she knows that we call her that,) Declan, Alex, Will, Dale, Tony, Andrew, Dafna, Ming, Katie, the Periscope gang, PJ, Sarah, Gardner, Chris, and especially Carla and Lance Hoffman, who looked really really terrific, even after everything they’ve been through.

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Photos will be up sometime. I took maybe 50 or so.

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I’ll be back next year. With The Rack and a table of its own.

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9 Comments on “Back From San Diego.”

  1. 1 Chris Sims said at 1:14 am on July 27th, 2009:

    Hey can I get Joe’s contact inf–

    …

    Jerk.

  2. 2 Ming Doyle said at 3:01 am on July 27th, 2009:

    I expect Massachusetts to be in one piece when I get home, young man!

  3. 3 Aaron said at 9:11 am on July 27th, 2009:

    Aww, and here I thought I was the only one that thought of you as a last minute replacement for Shannon Wheeler.

  4. 4 keith said at 10:18 am on July 27th, 2009:

    What was the gist of Heidi MacDonald’s feedback about getting noticed by The Beat? Because I’d like to get noticed by The Beat.

  5. 5 Bully said at 11:20 am on July 27th, 2009:

    Keith, be prepared to be addressed personally as “Nowhere Band.”

  6. 6 keith said at 11:26 am on July 27th, 2009:

    Nowhere Band could live with that.

  7. 7 Matt M. said at 12:52 pm on July 27th, 2009:

    I’d make a joke here but the make joke part of my brain is still rebooting from the catastrophic system failure it just suffered.

    Good to see you in person, Kevin. Too bad I gotta come to San Diego to do it.

  8. 8 J.Ho said at 2:35 pm on July 27th, 2009:

    you’re a sweetheart, Church–great seeing you as always, glad i got to buy a copy of your book!

  9. 9 Pj Perez said at 10:18 am on July 29th, 2009:

    Great to see you too, Churchie. I tried to swing back by Jenn’s table on Saturday, but you were all popular and crowded by people and stuff. Geez, do I have to make an appointment, or what?

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