{"id":5603,"date":"2015-09-24T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2015-09-24T22:35:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T02:35:25","slug":"con-report-spx-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5603","title":{"rendered":"Con Report: SPX 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This was the first SPX I’ve tabled at in a good long time and while I certainly can’t complain about sales so steady I couldn’t get away from my table, I’m afraid that situation doesn’t make for a very exciting con report. But here goes…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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First and foremost: SPX 2015 was the debut of Oyster War<\/em>! How did it go? In short: I took a ton of books–far more than I imagined I’d sell–and sold every single one. Huzzah! More on that later, though.<\/p>\n

Backing up a bit, I hit the road on Friday morning so I could rendezvous with some fine Richmond VA cartoonists: Rob Ullman and Jared Cullum. We stuffed Rob’s Jeep SUV about as full of comics and luggage as I can imagine. I felt\u00a0pretty bad about taking up far more than my fair share of the available space with\u00a0seven giant boxes of Oyster War<\/em>\u00a0(that’s 72 books) because I didn’t imagine I’d sell half of them, but at least I volunteered to sit in what was left of the back seat for the drive up to Bethesda.<\/p>\n

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I managed to behave somewhat responsibly on Friday night, getting to bed at a reasonable hour so I could get up early enough to grab a bit of exercise in the hotel gym then get my table in gear. I figured I wouldn’t table again until whatever book I do next comes out (which at the rate I work could be some time), so I shelled out for a full six foot table. I thought I’d have room for some originals, but my books and minis pretty much filled it up:<\/p>\n

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Hey, check out that fancy sign! Saturday was steady start-to-finish and by mid-afternoon was kinda cray-cray. I didn’t think I’d be able to get to any panels and indeed I didn’t–not even this nonexistent one that I made up:<\/p>\n

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Can’t believe I missed #spx2015<\/a> panel that was a MMA match b\/t Scott McCloud and Dylan Horrocks to decide the correct definition of comics.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ben Towle (@ben_towle) September 19, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n