FanExpo 2011

After the con ended on Sunday evening...those messy, messy pros.

About three or four weeks ago, my friends and I were in the Artist's Alley again at FanExpo Canada. Unfortunately, I didn't even get to see everything at the convention during the four day event - the space was a lot bigger than last year. However, it was a lot better for the crowds of people that entered the building, and the event was a lot more organized than last year by far (last year there was a lockout on the Saturday, the fire marshal was called or something...2010 was not a fun year for the con go-er). Thumbs up for the improvements! :D 


In short, we all did very well, sold a lot of stuff, made contacts, the usual. I sold out of Issue #1 of Cadaverific and the Carnage prints, and got Issues #2 and #3 in the Silver Snail comic book shop in Toronto. There were also a couple of retailers from the US who were interested in getting the books into their comic book shops....we'll see where that goes.

Laura Vegys

Our Artist Alley neighbours were awesome, and IMO, one of the best rows for original and creative content (in other words, no thieves and/or scam artists!).  These people included Laura Vegys, Lamin Martin, Stephen Daymond (Specimen B28), Vitaly S. Alexius (Romantically Apocalyptic), Matthew Mohammed (Rorschach Press/Black Bastard), Lucky and Peter Trinh (Maddy McGee, P.I.), and the guys at Powie Studios. A couple of the most memorable highlights from the Arists' Alley was meeting Jeff Smith (creator of the Bone series) and Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Essex County).

The dudes at the Specimen B28 table.

Promotion for the webcomic Romatically Apocalyptic.

Of course, it can't be a comic con without the cosplayers! Here are some of them...

From Soul Eater

Penguin and Vein

Kakashi from Naruto

Freddy Kruger

Super Mario!

I have no idea...but that is awesome.

Chuthulu!

From The Watchmen

From Pokemon

And finally, the Star Wars Blue-Ray promotion was in full swing...

Until next year then!