Hartford Comic Con 2015

On September 19th and 20th I went to Hartford Comic Con.

I did not do nearly as well in sales as I did at other conventions, however from what I have heard, last year at this convention people tabling had done far better in sales. It may have been due to the fact that last year this convention took place in May as opposed to September. The main audience for comic book conventions would be just starting their year in school or college. There were many other factors like The Big E, bike races, and other events going on the same weekend.

I did not get a chance to go to any panels or anything because yet again I was tabling by myself. 

I still had fun talking to people, especially my neighboring artists.

There were many very interesting costumes.

There were also many interesting things brought there.

Unfortunately I doubt I will be going next year to this convention. A lot of the other people that had tables here also felt the same way due to the small audience and lack of sales. It is unfortunate. Perhaps a better date would have been much better, perhaps a later month like November.

Hartford Comic Con surprisingly is held at another convention center other than the one Connecticon is held at. I did not know Hartford had other possible locations to hold conventions.

The next convention I will be attending will be Super Megafest. I was only able to get onto the wait list for Rhode Island Comic Con, and Alternicon has been filled up. It is unfortunate, but I can only attend one convention per month. Super Megafest will be November 21st and 22nd.

I realized a few things about my table display that I could improve upon. I will try to make some improvements for the next convention.

Page 162, 163, 164, & 165 of Zheph Skyre

Sorry I have not been updating this blog as often as I used to, but I have been rather busy with jobs, conventions, and making art! Here are pages 162, 163, 164, and 165 of Zheph Skyre!

Here we see the audience reaction to the King's declaration to reward those who would rescue the princess. As anyone would guess, people are terrified of the dragon and don't care for the princesses one bit. Of coarse Zheph would be willing to at least rescue Vanessa, but why would Sir Luther? Better yet, why would Jacques? He appears to want something...

Jacques wants to become king through marriage to all three princesses. This seems... rather ridiculous, but the King does not believe he has any options. It does appear Jacques has a plan, but will it work?

I did tend to like working on these pages considering they had less detail than most of them, though there's no action going on.

The King wants as many people as possible to go along with this plan, including Zheph. Zheph seems to disagree, and he tells the King to try to force him along with Jacques. It seems that Zheph has built up enough courage from his past exploits against Heartrogard's Knights to stand up to the King!

And the King goes along with Zheph's second plan! Perhaps he doesn't want to waste the manpower that would be required to save his daughters... Jacques tries to convince Zheph to join up with him, but Zheph knows or believes in many things. He knows from experience that the dragon is no easy opponent. He knows Jacques will never be able to capture Zheph again. And he knows Vanessa would never allow herself to marry Jacques.

More will come after my return from Hartford Comic Con!