The good folks over at the Dollar Bin podcast have posted audio of the Heroes Con ’08 minicomics panel, featuring Rob Ullman, Alec Longstreth, Joe Lambert and Liz Bailie–and moderated by me. The recording gets cut off toward the end, but the majority of the panel is there. While not the madcap hilarity of the Dustin-hosted panels of the past, there’s some good info there for folks who are interested in minis.
An aside: I’m sure the three people who look at this site with any regularity are probably wondering why I haven’t posted much of anything in a while. The reason is two-fold: First, I’ve been working mostly this last week or so on a one-page strip for a music magazine and, though I’ve been finished with the strip for a while, I can’t really post it until the magazine’s been out for a while. Second, my ancient Umax Astra 2400s scanner (that’s so old it has only a SCSI interface) finally gave up the ghost about ten days ago and, although I’ve been bidding on new (to me) large format scanners on ebay, I’ve yet to purchase one. Rest assured, sketchbook efluvia will return soon…
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Hey, I enjoyed the panel. I’d love to get more into minis but what I’d really like is some place where I can send some money and get a good cross-section assortment of them without having to make a lot of individual choices. Any chance of y’all doing a bundle of everyone that was on this panel where one transaction gets you 5 minis, one from each of you?
Thanks,
Dave
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Glad you enjoyed the panel, Dave! As far as getting a “one of each” package, that’d be kind of hard to coordinate, given that all the panel folks are from different cities (NYC, Richmond, Vermont, Winston-Salem, etc.). There are some good online places, though, to get minis from lots of different folks all in one fell swoop, rather than having to order them from each artist individually. Here are a few:
http://www.iknowjoekimpel.com/ – that’s the Center for Cartoon Studies store
http://www.hobocomics.com/ – Global Hobo, lots of good artists here
http://www.bodegadistribution.com/shop.html – minis mixed in with regular comics
http://poopsheet.ecrater.com/category.php?cid=41844 – tons and tons of stuff!
… And of course everyone will be at SPX (the small press expo in Bethesda, MD) in a few months. That’s really the best place to shop for minis since you can get your mitts on them before you buy!
Ben, thanks. Maybe for next year if you do something like this again, the most organized member of the posse should handle something like this. Print up some heavy cardstock folded slipcovers for “HeroesCon minicomics panel 2009” and while you are doing the panel you could all be autographing them. Announce it on the recording where you can buy the bundle online. Then sell the bundle at the panel, your tables and all the remainders online until they are gone.
Just an idea from the feverish always-on marketing portion of my brain. I love minis and mini creators and it always seems like there are so many easy ways that the market could be broadened and everyone’s audiences could get bigger. I don’t necessarily care about that as goal in and of itself, but if it makes the economics of creation more feasible such that artists can devote more time and there is more work, win/win/win.
Thanks for the suggestions.