77 hours of Supanova; Day two (saturday) - Part 2

Tonia is always sending me comics, for free. I'm a bastard, i very rarely give free issues out, not even to contributors. i'll buy drinks until you are on the floor but i can't bring myself to give the magazine away. tonia is the tooth fairy of comics, she's always buying stuff for other people. She rocks the way i don't. She sets comics free.
Again i had met her very briefly in 2003.
This time she brought me Sandman Mystery theatre #25, a comic i had been hunting for 4 years now, a comic that was stopping me from reading 50 odd comics in my Sandman Mystery Theatre box. Again, she set those comics free, free to be read. We chatted, i profusely thanked her, a lot, then i charged her full price for stuff. i'm going to comic hell, where the only comics are by mark millar and rob liefeld and storylines are never finished. She handed me some "Eat comics", some "office is hell" (i can never remember the latin name) and "Once upon a times". As well as her 24 hour comic from last year, which had a beautiful gold cover showing off a great illustration.
i introduced Tonia to Nicola. I forgot to mention that the night before we had discussed those wonder woman photos. Those mythical snapshots that everyone has seen but can't remember where or by whom. And don't try googling - i got up to page 30 for naught.

I was selling bits and peices. Everyone picked up Tales from under the bed by Doug Holgate and flicked through it. I think the problem was that my side of the table was way over stacked, and my filthy black and white magazine was being spurned by the bright coloured stuff. Loren morris' Interior was picked up but its one of those stories that you need to read to get hooked, while some of the art rocks some its a bit minimal and won't get people's attention on the flick test. but i still sold the odd one.

It was after lunch when Jase Harper turned up, he thought Daniel Reed was me. when that was righted, i handed over Jase's prize of $100 for his winning 24 hour challenge poster. In excahnge he handed over a set of Sporadics for the 24 hour challenge prize pool. Finally he passed over Sporadic #5 - which by the end of the weekend went gangbusters.

By this time i had gone and said hello to Daren White and bought a bunch of his stuff - Flange is great, the comic is good too. And also pleaded if he could bring DEEvEE 6,7 and 12 so i could complete my set. We talked about the annuals; apparently it will go thru Diamond which is pretty exciting, even though this ought to be everyone's goal, its still a buzz when it said out loud.

Back at the table, everything was calm, everytime i looked over Travis Burch, of rex helwig fame was taking photos of underaged cosplayers. Daniel gobbs had come on by as well as Andy Finlayson. Andy expressed an interest in doing a killeroo script of mine and seeing his work, that's a buzz.A man of great talent and taste. I also had clumsily done a couple portfolio reviews; i've been reading comics awhile, hanging around artists for a bit and while i was at film school tutored first years in story boarding and editting, so i kind of feel like i know what i'm talking about, kind of, maybe.
i had given up on Nic finishing my sketch so i passed the book over to Stewart McKenny. The calm dissapated when Weber, returned to the table. He started showing Alien Circus pages and pages from another project (don't tell scott lobdell!!) and recounted his experience of working for a Platinum Studios. To cut a long story short, it ends with Weber screaming "i was fucked! i was fucked!" and Nic coddling him, with 'there there, sweetie' and Weber falling asleep underneath the table.

During the day, i had taken the perogative and told everyone that we would be meeting at the Fringe Bar for drinks after the show, it was the only bar i could name, except for macgooleys. I made a beeline to Chewie, because i had told him we'd be at the Fringe bar the previous night and then not turned up. luckily he stayed in his room. For those keeping score at home Chewie is working on the storyboards for the new Superman film.

I was selling consistently, never fast enough (of course) but i was running low on the latest issue of the magazine. I had arranged with PC comics to sell the latest issue at their booths, since they have the cover and a feature story. I also made the same arrangement with the oztaku table since they appear in issue 2 and 6. On the PC side it worked out well and copies got sold, on the oztaku side, not so much. i think it was because a lot of people were hanging out at their booth and not buying - but as Avi said Supanova is a promotional thing not a sales thing.

I am more interested in the drinking thing. The last cosplayer was booted from the con, i magically made the stock disappear by folding over the tablecloth and woke up Weber. we were off.