Last weekend saw me getting up very early in order to get to the first of hopefully many Comics Assemble comic events in Gloucester.
I always wonder about how conventions, in a Leisure Centre hall this time, will fair when the weather outside is so lovely.
It suffer a bit as I think people woke to such sunshine, but it was a great day.
Sales were good enough, other creators were greet to catch up with (I hadn't seen Dave Hitchcock for many years) and I also got to meet people who create 3D models of your characters (more on that in a later post).
It launched yesterday and is doing OK, please do pop over to :-
and check it out.
The pre-launch page is up now, should you wish to be notified on launch.
... and here's a great little video pulled together by Andy Bloor
Thanks Andy.
My Cursed Blessings Kickstarter is coming together very nicely, the book looks really solid (with big thanks as always to Andy Bloor for his design work).
I'm just trying to work out what tier rewards (tempting extra etc) to put up with it. It's a challenge when the stories are only loosely related (at this point) but I'm sure I'll come up with something.
Got an invite to this, it's a bit of a trek but as it's 2 days and I'll have Steve Tanner riding shotgun I thought it would be a good way to spend a weekend.
it's the weekend of the 10th and 11th of October.
As we're up in the North West, we head further north after MaccPow and stay in a hotel in Bury so we're refreshed for the Bury Con.
It's our second and I love that we've already scoped out our favourite Indian Restaurant and know the local pubs.
We had a great curry, I have the mildest and Steve has the hottest on offer, and I ask them to the sure not to confuse them. After that we found two nice armchairs on the first floor of a busy pub and sat, with few beers, to eat h the England game.
Hmmmm... the first half was pretty boring so we headed back the hotel at half time and watched a better half in the hotel bar.
It was a game of two halves.
The Con itself had moved venues and wasn't as busy as last year, but we did well enough.
Again it's great chatting to new readers and old alike, and to people who wondered just what on earth was going on 😆.
After the event we headed back south, I dropped Steve back at his and was home by about 8pm.
All in all a really enjoyable weekend, and hope to do the same next year.
