I'm looking forward to the trip to Wizard World Chicago, but a little nervous, too. From Des Moines, it's a 6 hour drive to Chicago. That's the furthest I've ever driven somewhere by myself. Hopefully I won't get desperately lost and end up dead in a crack house somewhere.
I'm also a little panicked that I didn't bring enough stuff to sell. I only have maybe, 20 of my original posters left. Jared gave me his last 6 copies of the DVD to sell. I'm bringing, like 8 t-shirts - all mediums and larges that I've been waiting for someone to order and that I've been sitting on. I still have a lot of the Trainspotting parody poster. But the item I worked the hardest on - the 24 page sampler booklet with a new, never seen before comic - well, I only have about 150 of those. Still, if I sell out of merchandise, that's not really a bad problem to have, is it?
I went totally D.I.Y. on this booklet. They've all been lovingly arranged by hand. I was going to take them to a professional printer, but they wanted $300. Sh'eah, right!
Once I get to Chicago, I expect things to be in full swing. I'm sharing a room with Zach Miller from Joe & Monkey. Let's hope he doesn't snore!
The two of us are sharing a booth with Nothing Nice to Say's Mitch Clem. We were also supposed to be booth-buddies with Neil G from Robot Stories, but he had to drop out at the last minute because he's buying a house and needed to get his stuff together. We'll miss Neil, but I'm sure we'll have a good time. It's like a reunion of the Minneapolis FallCon!
...except without Carrington, who we will also miss.
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I prepared Friday's comic in advance and it's sitting in the display cue ready to go. Hopefully I didn't screw things up with the code and you'll have a nice comic about Aliens vs. Predator to kick off your weekend.
See you soon!
