con report time
Connecticon 2008

Friday
-Arrive around 2, Connecticon has become wise to my tricks in the space of a year, I pay full price
-The Artist's Colony is misplaced and where the hell is the dealer room
-"Lem, where is the dealer room" "In an obvious place"
-Oh cool hey everybody what's up
-Jeff Rowland remembers me from MoCCA, is a nice guy
-"Aaron Diaz, was the terrible injury worth the Kate Beaton guest strip?" "Yes"
-Not even the Japanese-language-books-only booth has the manga I wanted. This is the last straw and I resolve to stick to American comics FOREVER.
-Oh they have it on their website.
-Hello Stephanie Ciparis and Jake Lucas, you worked with me at the Daily Campus and half of you went to the high school that I went to. You are working on a photo comic but it is NOT UP YET.
-Hello Stephanie, you are here finally, you have brought the original art from your guest strip as I demanded in the ransom note, I make a call to my associate and wink meaningfully, you breath a sigh of relief, I fade into the night
-Hello Tara, you are an avid reader of books, oh snap you interviewed MIB, that is excellent
-Dumbrella and Topatoco panels are attended by me and also some others
-Warm ramune: still tastes pretty good
-Important business dinner with webcomic CEOs. New people: met by me, kind of.
-Much beer, a tasty sandwich, several art jam things (highlight: Chris Hastings draws a lucid tv doctor), "industry talk"
-I follow Aaron Diaz back to the general area of my car, he explains the dark secret of Dresden Codak to me, I leave in tears, betrayed.

Saturday
-Attend day 2 with pals Ai-Chi and Jon
-A fellow from Free Lunch Comics says some nice things about one of my originals, fantasies of Dr. Pepper and the Case of Algebra 7 and Mr and Mr. Smith's Se7en Year Voyage to Tibet with Yeti on Motorcycle and Snowmobile seeing print by way of an actual publisher flash through my head for the rest of the day. Also a fantasy where one can actually make money with comics.
-Ai-Chi and Jon attend a screening, I look out a window and notice something happening on a nearby bridge. I investigate.
-I am in a crowded outdoor festival. A band plays gospel or reggae music over a drum machine and asks me to get my hands up for Jesus. Beer is $6 too much.
-I visit the Yu-Gi-Oh memorial in downtown Hartford and spend a moment in silence for all the animes that were lost in the Great Yaoi War of 1976.
-Back to nerdsville
-Much time spent bugging Lem and Victoria
-Best cosplay: Hunter S. Thompson. He meets my compliments with the appropriate response (stumbling around).
-After two days of having my confidence in my own normalcy bolstered, I begin to notice cosplayers dressed as Molotov Cocktease and the girl from Gurren Lagann. The convention for crazy unwashed perverts politely reminds me that I am not different.
-Ai-Chi and Jon show interest in attending the cosplay masquerade.
-We leave after the second on-stage/in-costume marriage proposal.

Sunday
-I sleep for 13 hours and wake up at 4:30 PM
-No animes today.
-All in all, a pretty good time. None of the people I met were bad, in fact, all of them were good.


Oh also sorry I haven't updated in a month. At first I was in school and conducting an experiment and writing a big ol' 20-something page research paper but then that ended and I got a job and am making some money and also moving out of my apartment. Comic-wise, there have been a lot of false starts, but I now have one on deck that is looking pretty good. You can expect it some time in 2010.


Oh also I found a couch in front of a dumpster, which is now the nicest thing in my apartment. Also a TV, a table, a set of shelves, a chair... etc. I went through kind of a "phase."