Saturday night after posting my previous entry on SPX, I headed downstairs to try to catch the tail end of the Ignatz awards and then to rendezvous with some folks afterwards, but managed–as seems to be becoming my unintentional tradition–to miss the entire ceremony. Not in a million years will I ever suggest that a …
Tag: Comics
Oct 13 2007
SPX 2007 – Day 2
Saturday, traditionally the more heavily attended of the two days of SPX, lived up to that reputation and more today with pretty much everyone I talked to reporting really strong sales and a few folks going as far as to say that this has been the strongest SPX so far. I’d agree with that as …
Oct 13 2007
SPX 2007 – Day 1
Yesterday, Friday the 12th, began the first day of SPX in Bethesda, MD. For Adam Casey and me, traveling from North Carolina, it unfortunately got rolling a bit late as (predictably) our progress toward the Bethesda North Marriot and Convention Center ground to a near-halt as we neared the metropolitan D.C. area. After a grueling …
Oct 11 2007
Funkywinkerbeanization
Aside from some great parody strips, the best thing to come out of the recent “cancer” storyline in Funky Winkerbean is a term recently coined by a friend of mine: funkywinkerbeanization. Employed as a noun, the term refers to a situation in which something that was originally lighthearted, fun and/or enjoyable later becomes laborious and …
Oct 03 2007
SPX: North Cackalacky Represent!
The floor plan and table assignments for SPX 2007 are now posted. A bunch of us folks coming from North Carolina (along with Yankee interlopers Chris Reilly and Steve Ahlquist) all went in together and got a block of tables. We’ll be in the back right side of the room, at tables one through eight …
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