I sent in my bio and photo today for the New England Comic Con, to be held at the Hynes auditorium in Boston on September 17th & 18th, 2011.
For those who may not know, a comic con is a convention at which artists, cartoonists, Star Trek cast members and other celebrities appear. I'll have a table, at which will be T shirts, prints of cartoons, original artwork from the strips, and whatever else I can come in with to make a buck and amuse passersby. This is new to me--I've been to one convention for a couple of hours, but hosting a table and coming up with a display is uncharted territory for me. Still, I'm looking forward to it. It'll get me out of my office, and I'll get to meet a lot of other artists.
My inner geek is looking forward to maybe meeting Walter Koenig (Star Trek),
and my inner pig is looking forward to meeting Gena Lee Nolin (Baywatch). I must admit, however, that I've seen all the Star Trek episodes, but only one or two Baywatches. I may do a cartoon about each of them so I can have them sign the artwork. I've done a couple based on Star Trek already; clowns and Baywatch could make an unlikely but amusing combo. My first thought is to do something with slow motion, but what that will involve is still up in the air--so to speak.
I wound up committing to this because I'm in the cast of a production of Guys and Dolls, and another cast member, Don Higgins, set it up. [He draws a web comic called Dark Magic and Donuts. I have great respect for his work because it's a creative, entertaining series and because he, like myself, is not above stooping to the occasional flatulence joke.] So this particular production features two cast members named Don who both do online comic strips and who both drive VWs. I was hoping he would be wealthy, because then I, by extension, would also probably be wealthy---but alas, neither of us is.
In other news: I just checked the stats on the QlownTown website and was happy to see that visitorship (my own new word) is up. That's good to see. I'm hoping that the exposure on the ComicCon site will help bring even more people to the site. QlownTown recently passed the two-year mark, meaning I've done...well, I don't know how many. If I were still doing seven days a week, I'd know it was 730--365 a year--but since I cut back to just weekdays last June, the number is lower. Let's see: two days off per week; say, fifty Saturdays and Sundays in 2010, another twenty or so this year. So: 730 - 70 = 660. That's still a lot of clowns.
I've planned every strip through May and partway into June, and every week I schedule a Saturday and a Sunday cartoon, but then decide towards the end of the week to save them for later. I make no promises, but at some point in the future, we'll return to seven days a week. I hope that by the time I do the convention in Boston, there'll be a new QlownTown every day and they'll be appearing in at least a few newspapers.
By that time, I also expect to be living in a new house and looking out at a verdant landscape. However, looking out the window at the snow falling heavily today, I feel more confident that the new house will happen; I'm not so sure about the verdant part.
But, clear roads or snowy, I'll be trekking down to Boston in September to ply my wares. Should be fun.
(I just realized the "trek" pun I made after I'd typed it. Sorry. But I'm leaving it in.)
For those who may not know, a comic con is a convention at which artists, cartoonists, Star Trek cast members and other celebrities appear. I'll have a table, at which will be T shirts, prints of cartoons, original artwork from the strips, and whatever else I can come in with to make a buck and amuse passersby. This is new to me--I've been to one convention for a couple of hours, but hosting a table and coming up with a display is uncharted territory for me. Still, I'm looking forward to it. It'll get me out of my office, and I'll get to meet a lot of other artists.
and my inner pig is looking forward to meeting Gena Lee Nolin (Baywatch). I must admit, however, that I've seen all the Star Trek episodes, but only one or two Baywatches. I may do a cartoon about each of them so I can have them sign the artwork. I've done a couple based on Star Trek already; clowns and Baywatch could make an unlikely but amusing combo. My first thought is to do something with slow motion, but what that will involve is still up in the air--so to speak.
I wound up committing to this because I'm in the cast of a production of Guys and Dolls, and another cast member, Don Higgins, set it up. [He draws a web comic called Dark Magic and Donuts. I have great respect for his work because it's a creative, entertaining series and because he, like myself, is not above stooping to the occasional flatulence joke.] So this particular production features two cast members named Don who both do online comic strips and who both drive VWs. I was hoping he would be wealthy, because then I, by extension, would also probably be wealthy---but alas, neither of us is.
I've planned every strip through May and partway into June, and every week I schedule a Saturday and a Sunday cartoon, but then decide towards the end of the week to save them for later. I make no promises, but at some point in the future, we'll return to seven days a week. I hope that by the time I do the convention in Boston, there'll be a new QlownTown every day and they'll be appearing in at least a few newspapers.
By that time, I also expect to be living in a new house and looking out at a verdant landscape. However, looking out the window at the snow falling heavily today, I feel more confident that the new house will happen; I'm not so sure about the verdant part.
But, clear roads or snowy, I'll be trekking down to Boston in September to ply my wares. Should be fun.
(I just realized the "trek" pun I made after I'd typed it. Sorry. But I'm leaving it in.)
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