The wildest thing about the Ohio comics crowd is all the attendees who are like, "Oh yeah, I went to school for comics." I tell them I learned how to make comics on the STREETS.
Shout out to @natepowell.bsky.social for telling me to eat a banana for my sore legs. Comic shows are full of helpful life advice.
Honestly I think every creative distributor is struggling as much as individual creators in terms of where to market / how to market to an increasingly distracted audience. (Plus, there's a severe lack of budget put towards those efforts—the hey day of social taught a lot of execs very bad lessons)
Shared a Lyft with some really nice dudes who did the tour with me. I was talking about how comic strips are my wheelhouse and they didn't know anything about what was happening recently, so I practically screamed "HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT COMIC KINGDOM?"
Bury me in this vault with the boxes of Rex Morgan MD.
A bunch of comic professionals loitering in the lobby of a Holiday Inn while it's pouring rain outside is a VIBE.
Finally! Marvel and DC's joint trademark on the word "superheroes" has been canceled. We no longer have to be weird about how we use it in our own comics stories, and titles.