How I spent my summer vacation (aka: Mikey's Heroes Con 2009 con report)
So, okay, this weekend I was in Charlotte, NC attending the 2009 Heroes Con. Rich Stahnke of Tin Star Studios (WHEN DRIVE-INS ATTACK, FURIOUS FIST OF THE DRUNKEN MONKEY) shared a corner booth (along with our "booth babes" Al Dorantes and W. Darryl Wright)and did pretty well, sales-wise (even though they put us over with the retailers and not with the other artists).
The big seller this time around was PACK OF LIES, the first in what I hope will be many POCKET PULP PROJECTS (we're already planning the next one, a sci-fi yarn in the tradition of FLASH GORDON called DOC ROCKET: AT THE ALTAR OF THE DARK STAR - more on that at some point).
PACK OF LIES is a 17 chapter detective noir murder mystery thingee written by myself with art by Byron Winton, Marcel Walker, Shawn Atkins, Darryl Wright, Scott Hedlund, Barry Linck, Jeremy Ray, Kristoffer Smith, Loran Skinkis, Jon Towers, and Jason Bender (as well as my own art on chapters 4,5,16, 1nd 17). The individual chapters are separate little mini-comics, 6 pages in length (102 pages in total)and came housed in a full-color "cigarette box" along with four pins and 2 extra chapters (a text piece on the influences that led to the project and a list of bios for the artists involved). So, in all, it was like getting a 115 page graphic novel for $5.
People really liked the format of the chapters and it truly was something altogether different from anything else available there. We sold a total of 20 out of 25 which I think is fantastic.
I also started, after encouragement from Al and Darryl and Rich, to charge for sketches. I never used to because, really, I kinda hate it when I have to pay for a sketch at a con...BUT, it seems, there are plenty of people who are perfectly willing to shell out a few bucks for a sketch if they like your stuff. I ended up drawing quite a few sketches for folks, but color and B/W (I need to get myself a prismacolor marker set). There was a really nifty one I did of THE QUESTION that I didn't get a chance to photograph but here are a couple of them that I did snap with my cell phone:
Captain Marvel...
and Indiana Jones.
I had a really good time, as always, and look forward to next year.
Pittsburgh is next in September and I am, of course, excited about that.
Okay then!
YAY!
The big seller this time around was PACK OF LIES, the first in what I hope will be many POCKET PULP PROJECTS (we're already planning the next one, a sci-fi yarn in the tradition of FLASH GORDON called DOC ROCKET: AT THE ALTAR OF THE DARK STAR - more on that at some point).
PACK OF LIES is a 17 chapter detective noir murder mystery thingee written by myself with art by Byron Winton, Marcel Walker, Shawn Atkins, Darryl Wright, Scott Hedlund, Barry Linck, Jeremy Ray, Kristoffer Smith, Loran Skinkis, Jon Towers, and Jason Bender (as well as my own art on chapters 4,5,16, 1nd 17). The individual chapters are separate little mini-comics, 6 pages in length (102 pages in total)and came housed in a full-color "cigarette box" along with four pins and 2 extra chapters (a text piece on the influences that led to the project and a list of bios for the artists involved). So, in all, it was like getting a 115 page graphic novel for $5.
People really liked the format of the chapters and it truly was something altogether different from anything else available there. We sold a total of 20 out of 25 which I think is fantastic.
I also started, after encouragement from Al and Darryl and Rich, to charge for sketches. I never used to because, really, I kinda hate it when I have to pay for a sketch at a con...BUT, it seems, there are plenty of people who are perfectly willing to shell out a few bucks for a sketch if they like your stuff. I ended up drawing quite a few sketches for folks, but color and B/W (I need to get myself a prismacolor marker set). There was a really nifty one I did of THE QUESTION that I didn't get a chance to photograph but here are a couple of them that I did snap with my cell phone:
Captain Marvel...
and Indiana Jones.
I had a really good time, as always, and look forward to next year.
Pittsburgh is next in September and I am, of course, excited about that.
Okay then!
YAY!