SPX 2009 – A Con Report!

As you’ll notice from all those posts down there, I attended the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland this past weekend, where I sold my wares and enticed strangers with promises of free online comics. Oh, and I also had a lot of fun! Here I am at my booth!

Some notes and highlights of the weekend, excluding the ones that make me seem like too much of a braggart (does implying I had experiences worth bragging about still make me a braggart? If so, feel free to complain about my ways on your favorite messageboard or social network!) :

Seeing a lot of the other webcomicers, some of whom I’d met before, some of whom I hadn’t (I’d list them all, but dang that’s a long list). And webcomics people are perhaps some of the friendliest folks around!

Meeting some comics people whom I’d previously known own through messageboards or Twitter. This includes Sanjay of Cowbirds in Love and The Girl of Hey Pais (in perhaps SPX’s first cat-toy-for-mini-comic trade!).

Meeting some existing readers. An experience which is still quite new to me and oh-so-awesome!

I had the pleasure of having a table next to Jon Rosenberg of Goats, who was a great guy to talk with and helped to make my first convention as an exhibitor a good one!

And, as you will see in every single SPX write-up, it was SO COLD! People who know me will surely say “But Katie! You are always cold!” But it’s true. Normal-temperatured people will confirm this.

I will leave it at that! I will definitely be trying to make it out to SPX again next year. And, for those of you interested, I will soon be putting some of my unsold items (prints and handbound sketchbooks) up on my etsy page. I will link it in a blog post when this happens!