Home from Connooga. Got my pictures up at Con-news if you want to see them. Now two weeks till Shevacon which looks to be awesome. Must refuel and recharge!
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Connooga this weekend!
We will be at Connooga this weekend at the awesome Chattanooga Choo Choo, and staying on the Delta Queen at night. See you there!
WTH Con Review
So I spent my Saturday on the campus of Guilford College at the wonderful What The Hell? Con. Let me first get something out of the way. This is a free convention. FREE! And the thing that gets me about it is theres another regional convention that charges money, that is way less organzied, and in comparison offers less. So great job WTHcon, you put on a great show.
The convention takes place between two buldings. It reminds me alot of Conbust at Smith College in Mass. Most of the space is classroom space, repurposed for the convention. In Duke the first floor is for the dealers, who carried a good amount of stuff. The second floor has lots of games rooms for the rpgers. If you like Role Playing, then most likely there was a game for you there. There is also a Anime room, which had good crowds most of the day, and something unique to WTH con for me was the Bad Movies Room. I stopped there a few times throughout the weekend and it was really really bad. It takes a hardy person to find these films i’m sure.
The third floor has two videogame rooms and more programming space.
Across the way in Dana was the auditorium where MC Frontalot had his concert and where the Artist Alley was. These artist, many of them from the webcomic world were all amazing, and I’m gonna try to join them next year.
I had to leave during the MC Frontalot concert so I could make the drive back to Asheville, but left with a very enjoyable day of conventioning behind me. Great job to the students and volunteers who put on WTH Con.
Hoshicon Artist Alley.
I am happy to announce that I will be bringing my collection of creatures to the University of Charlotte campus on April 23rd, 2011 for Hoshicon. I’ll be in the artist alley so come say hi, especially if we’ve never met. Preregistration for the show is only $8 and can be found here. Look forward to meeting the Charlotte crowd.
itinerary.
February is upon us and my little car engine is getting ready to go. Every other weekend is a trip to conlandia. Here’s where I know for sure Ill be the next couple of weeks.
Sat Feb 5th WTH CON at Guilford College. I’ve heard rumors of this con for the past couple of years now. I heard its free, and its good. I’m going on Saturday to check out the show and see MC Frontalot.
Feb 18th-20th, 2011 Connooga, Chattanooga, TN
We went to this last year at historic Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel. Its one of the better conventions since we moved away from the midwest. This year we are staying away from the convetion on a riverboat Delta Queen which may be haunted. OOOHHHH. Going as fans.
March 4th-6th. Shevacon in Roanoke, Va. Me & Jess are Guests at this years con. We will be doing a letterpress printing demo, and I will be competing in the Iron Artist as well as having work in the art show.
And then March gets even crazier but thats a post for another day.
Shevacon is coming soon.
Charlotte Minicon
Went to the Charlotte Minicon today hosted at the awesome Palmer building. Its a pretty cool place for a convention but super small. This convention has really big name comic book guests, the only problem is they are crammed into a small area. There was probably about 20 dealers total so this con is great if your in Charlotte or have other things on the agenda for the day, but for me, Id see it as hard to justify the two hour one way trip again. Still if your in Charlotte I reccomend the show for the chance to meet some great artists.
Just blocks away is the Heroes Arent Hard to Find comic book store (one of the longest and best in the southeast and also showrunners of the convention) and I spent a while there before heading home adding some comic goodness to my trip.
Wizard Atlanta Photos
Shevacon cyber monday deal
Shevacon which takes place next March 4th-6th in Roanoke, VA and which me and Jess are lucky to be guests at is offering a Cyber Monday deal on memberships.
They write,
“Our Cyber Monday deal is prepped and ready! Enter the code “shevaholiday” for 10% off an attendee ticket from 12am Monday until 12:55pm Tuesday. An attendee ticket to Shevacon can make a great Christmas present for your loved ones or even you!”
You can buy tickets here or get more info on the convention here. See you there!
Nc Comic Con
We had a great time at the NC Comiccon These two kids were awesome and had to think they had the best mom ever. Anyway lots of creatures found new homes and I met some awesome people.
Also, made a large creature, now available at Etsy