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i make my grand return
hello reader(s?)
i'm back from MICE! well technically i was back sunday night, but i was also exhausted and compelled (i always am) to unpack my suitcase immediately the second i walk in the door. I think this habit started because ren, who is now an old lady cat of 17, really gets upset when she sees suitcases out because i might be leaving. she is just a small thing.
so MICE was like tabling most other cons, which didn't stop my anxiety about doing it the first time. it was REALLY crowded, but the crowd was moving smoothly and 99.9% masked. the crowd size is what i remembered from MICE pre-pandemic, though, so i wasn't shocked. i'm still really awkward socially, especially when cut loose on my own like this because there was no room for a buddy behind the table. but thankfully my neighbor kirsten shull was extremely friendly and outgoing - i love lookin at pictures of tiny humans and she has a 4mo at home.
i (very briefly) got to meet and fanboy at maggie vicknair whos comic horror hospital school is one i probably check for updates a few times a month. if i never pitched it before, it's an all girls' school that is also a hospital. of horror. listen, it's good shit if you know what you like!! but maggie not only signed a comic but gave me a free copy which made my little spirit just explode with joy.
there were a lot of other a-listers there like kruttika (author of "Made in Heaven" which i did a coop review for a while back) and silver sprocket comics. but part of the real draw is finding new people i've never seen or heard of before and in that regard Pen McD's incredibly touching comic 70/30 about going through cancer treatment really touched a nerve in me. Pen, like me, wasn't diagnosed until stage 3. many of the comics in the book like ones where the protag Porcupine is repeating 'if nothing else, i have this last autumn' were ones i really recognized as familiar. i also got some amazing poetry zines from Runny, ones that were queer and fierce and punk.
it was a great event, basically. MICE always is. the staff runs like a well oiled machine (this was the con's 15th anniversary so i suppose by then you have your shit on lock!) and were always swinging around to offer us water/seltzer, fruit and other snacks.
though it was only two hectic days and i now am beating myself up for underperforming sales (maybe if i was more outgoing! maybe if i rearranged my table! maybe if-) i would immediately go back if i had another chance. chances of repeat appearances at MICE are slim tho, they try their best to feature new artists every year.
i'm still struggling to get the chapter 5 inhuman printing smoothed out - there's been at least one lost file upload and at least one file upload done entirely in the wrong dimensions as the result of a simple accident/misscommunication. so that is unfortunately dragging on much longer htan i had hoped for - i was planning to try to knock out chapter 9 this month, but probably looking at january or february now.
now it's time to bury myself beneath a mountain of seasonal cards i must write and address.but first i better turn on some cartoons for old lady renjamin to watch, or she'll just fuss the entire time now...
see you when i see you
i'm back from MICE! well technically i was back sunday night, but i was also exhausted and compelled (i always am) to unpack my suitcase immediately the second i walk in the door. I think this habit started because ren, who is now an old lady cat of 17, really gets upset when she sees suitcases out because i might be leaving. she is just a small thing.
so MICE was like tabling most other cons, which didn't stop my anxiety about doing it the first time. it was REALLY crowded, but the crowd was moving smoothly and 99.9% masked. the crowd size is what i remembered from MICE pre-pandemic, though, so i wasn't shocked. i'm still really awkward socially, especially when cut loose on my own like this because there was no room for a buddy behind the table. but thankfully my neighbor kirsten shull was extremely friendly and outgoing - i love lookin at pictures of tiny humans and she has a 4mo at home.
i (very briefly) got to meet and fanboy at maggie vicknair whos comic horror hospital school is one i probably check for updates a few times a month. if i never pitched it before, it's an all girls' school that is also a hospital. of horror. listen, it's good shit if you know what you like!! but maggie not only signed a comic but gave me a free copy which made my little spirit just explode with joy.
there were a lot of other a-listers there like kruttika (author of "Made in Heaven" which i did a coop review for a while back) and silver sprocket comics. but part of the real draw is finding new people i've never seen or heard of before and in that regard Pen McD's incredibly touching comic 70/30 about going through cancer treatment really touched a nerve in me. Pen, like me, wasn't diagnosed until stage 3. many of the comics in the book like ones where the protag Porcupine is repeating 'if nothing else, i have this last autumn' were ones i really recognized as familiar. i also got some amazing poetry zines from Runny, ones that were queer and fierce and punk.
it was a great event, basically. MICE always is. the staff runs like a well oiled machine (this was the con's 15th anniversary so i suppose by then you have your shit on lock!) and were always swinging around to offer us water/seltzer, fruit and other snacks.
though it was only two hectic days and i now am beating myself up for underperforming sales (maybe if i was more outgoing! maybe if i rearranged my table! maybe if-) i would immediately go back if i had another chance. chances of repeat appearances at MICE are slim tho, they try their best to feature new artists every year.
i'm still struggling to get the chapter 5 inhuman printing smoothed out - there's been at least one lost file upload and at least one file upload done entirely in the wrong dimensions as the result of a simple accident/misscommunication. so that is unfortunately dragging on much longer htan i had hoped for - i was planning to try to knock out chapter 9 this month, but probably looking at january or february now.
now it's time to bury myself beneath a mountain of seasonal cards i must write and address.but first i better turn on some cartoons for old lady renjamin to watch, or she'll just fuss the entire time now...
see you when i see you