{"id":5266,"date":"2014-09-17T12:17:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5266"},"modified":"2014-09-17T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:17:03","slug":"spx-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5266","title":{"rendered":"SPX 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’d think with me now being pretty much done with Oyster War<\/em> I’d have time for a big, extensive SPX 2014 wrap-up, but I’ve actually got to jump right into several other comics (and other) projects pretty quickly. But, I did want to do just a quick post–mainly just to show off some of the great stuff I bought at the show.<\/p>\n

As with last year, I went to the show this year as a “civilian” and did not get a table. It’s looking like (knock on wood!) I’ll have a book out by next year’s show, so this was probably my last show for a bit where wandering the floor and catching a lot of programming is an option. I caught several interesting panels including the Lynda Barry talk, The John P. panel (which included a screening of a shortened version of the documentary about him, Root Hog or Die<\/em>), and the Digital Comics panel. My favorite panel of the show by far, though, was the panel on Spanish language comics. You occasionally hear some discussion of Argentinian comics because of the connection with Italian comics, but it was so great to hear folks discuss comics from places you rarely hear mentioned: Columbia, Mexico, Spain (which you’d think would be discussed more with other European comics, what with Spain’s being in Europe and all), etc.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any idea how things with sales-wise with the new, bigger floor, but I did observe a few general things just wandering around:<\/p>\n