Saturday, December 11, 2004

Korea Haim was Cool

So i sent off the package of books and uploaded the flyers. During that particular month i was also working on issue 5 of the magazine, trying to get it ready for supacosplay in Brisbane and renovating my new house so it was a hectic month.

The Bucheon Comic book fair took place in the middle of october and in terms of what I know this is it;
-the books and promotional material were recieved and liked.
-people around the office liked Batrisha
-eclectica press sent 80 books, i'm not sure if that was 80 different titles or 16 different titles (with 5 copies each=80)
-I had talked to Ben Howard from Phosphorescent to give their books a translated traetment but Ben was hitting the convention curuit and I believe heading of to a P.Diddy party. Nonetheless I think he sent some books over.
-The eclectica stuff was well recieved by the local artists
-Oni comics also had a presence.
-Again Batrisha was well recieved by kids and families
-very few international creators got publishing deals, and those that did were all there in person, specifically a creator with the first name daniel from canada.

I still intend to try and get some more info but that's all I got, so sorry for those involved.
Your books, if they weren't picked up for reading by a publisher, are now residing in the Bucheon Cartoon library, i did also ask for any excess books be sent to any English language schools in the area but have no idea if this was done.

But I was invited to go to next years event, not "here's a room and a plane ticket" invite though. I was told that it would be romantic, i'm guessing that this a error in translation, but i'm hoping. I may do it all again next year , if i do I'll most likely try and get my own booth and print out all the materials locally and ship them with the books. I probably won't go next year, the plan is to go to the US but in 2007 I want to do some of the Asian countries and may try and fit in the Book fair.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Our Corey Selan" sounds like some sort of indian meat product; "Our corey selan has that great tandoori taste without the calouries".

Plus we all know you stand on the Corey Feldman side of the Corey Field.