In SPACE no one can hear you buy and sell comics
SPACE has once again come and gone.
Attendance was thin most of the weekend, but there were a few busy spells. My sales were about average overall, which is to say good. SPACE is always one of my best shows. This year’s show had a lot of things going against it. It was (accidentally?) scheduled on the same weekend as STAPLE in Texas and worse yet, Buckeye Comic Con also happening in Columbus. Additionally, it is about six weeks earlier than usual and I predict that in four weeks, many comic readers will be looking for it only to be disappointed that they missed it. Darn.
My big seller was of course the brand spanking new LACKLUSTER WORLD #5. This issue is easily my favorite of the series and I would argue my best. It’s pretty personal to me and I’ve been holding the hope that it brings readers to tears. Feedback thus far has been to that effect. My friend Kris said, “Thanks for making my wife cry.”
Gynn and/or Rick (which one of you two writes the reviews??) gets a gold sticker for writing the first review and it’s a great one.
Saturday night, I had a scheduled interview with Dave Sim. He and the Cerebus Yahoo! Group people invited me to join them for dinner, so I was able to conduct the interview from the back seat of a mini-van and in the lobby of the wacked-out German restaurant while we waited for an hour to be seated. I won’t come right out and say why I interviewed Dave (not yet anyway), but I can say it has a little something to do with the return of a little installment based writing I’ve done in the past.
That’s quite a huge clue really.
Anyway, SPACE was fun as always and it’s always great to see all the cool kids with their cool books. For those of your that couldn’t make it to the show, you can buy LW5 here.
And now, photos.
Look! New banner graphic!
Mary modeling a fine looking comic book:
Stolen from comicrelated.com: Joanna and I drawing some doodles on this year’s jam boards:
