The Dallas Comic Expo was fun. The cartoon above did not happen, I just thought it would be funny if it had. My best bud Sam came out and stayed for several hours. He was the only person beside my girls who showed up that I invited. He and I always have fun hanging out. Sadly I’d don’t think I got a picture of us hanging out though. Here though is me with my lovely wife:
I got to see some of my old cartoonist buddies like Samantha Wikan of Life’s a Witch and Rebecca Hicks of Lil Vampires. I love those ladies and it’s always fun to hang out with them and be hassled by them both. They also both love my wife and kids, which is easy to do. I also finally got to meet Tim and Tom Engstrom of The Legendary Boys of Floyd. I have been chatting back and forth for a long while with them and even got to sit in on a panel with one of the brothers. It was the webcomic technology panel and was at the end of the day, so attendance was extremely low, but still fun. Also on the panel was the lovely and talented Amanda Harpold of Salt the Holly.
I also had the good fortune to meet Austin Rogers of Red Beard Comics and his excellent wife. He has some great art work and I really enjoyed getting his insights on the whole comic thing. I also met David Wilborn of Urban Jungle. I finally met Mark Largent of Wannabe Pirates. I also met and had a great talk with a new comic buddy, Mark Stokes of Zombie Boy comics.
Also, I got to talk with the great Joel Watson of Hijinks Ensue and bought his book. I’m enjoying the book, but my kids are never allowed to read it. He drew a really cool evil Wil Wheaton sketch for me inside the book.
I’m sure I have forgotten a few people. All in all it was a good show. It did reveal to me I still have much much work to do to get my comic where I want it to be. I’m going to do some serious re-evaluation of my comic form top to bottom and try and figure out where I’m going wrong.
***UPDATE***: Speaking of forgetting people, I actually forgot our illustrious hosts! Jonathan Caustrita of Tiki Cloadas, Michael Morenoof Death by Bunny-Ted & Zed-It Could be more-etc…, and teh lovely and talented Thomas Overbeck of Times Like This. I got to hang out with all 3 at various times and really enjoyed it. They each have a passion for DWEX and worked very hard on the event. I fully expect it to get bigger and better each and every year. Thanks guys for your hard work.
Glad you had a great time. I am sorry things came unraveled around here because it was really one of the things I wanted to do this year. Maybe next year.
Haha, that made me chuckle
Also, nice to hear you had fun, Barry! I wish there was some sort of convention or whatever around here that I could go to, cause it looks so much fun.
Hi Barry,
We met briefly at past year’s DWEX (which is how I discovered your comic), and it was nice to see you again this year. And yay, I could actually afford to buy something from you! Hopefully, we’ll see you there again next year! See you next time hopefully.
Awesome. Thanks for the comments and thanks for buying my book. It’s my first book so I was too nervous to offer to do a sketch in it. I should have offered but that was just extra pressure I thought I might choke on. Anyway, thanks for your support.