MegaCon: Day One, the Day of Days
So, when last I left you I was about to board a plane on Long Island with my friend Jeremy, co-proprietor of BLAM! Comics’s sister company ComicSlop.com (go there now and sign up, they don’t go live until May 2005, but you won’t regret it), and heavy snow was forecast for the East Coast. You’ll have to wait a bit for that story, I’ll tell it next week as it’s a long, sometimes amusing, sometimes irritating story, but we did finally make it to Orlando for MegaCon, albeit 2am on Friday (I told you: sometime Friday).
Not only did we make it, but our inaugural publication did as well! The Official Great War of Magellan Comics Magazine arrived without incident from our printer in Canada. So did the product from our publishing partner Vanguard Productions, the toys for Jeremy to sell, and the posters and promotional postcards. The only thing that didn’t make it was the package with the pegs and the rest of the hardware, including the can of paint that shouldn’t have been shipped UPS but was that exploded when the box was dropped. There’s a whole saga to that as we still have not received the package as of returning to the hotel tonight, but I’ll let our creative director Andrew recount that if should ever decide to post of this blog. In the end he wound up taking an expensive cab ride to Home Depot (our new saviors) and getting the required hardware.
That got us up and going, just in time for the early arrivals. In fact, just in time for our first customer, the lovely Jean. She honored us by purchasing not just one, but four copies of The Official Comics Magazine, and for that, we thank her. The rest of the day went fairly well, we chatted with the curious and non-curious alike, converting some of the latter and exciting the most of the former.
The magazines themselves were an amazing site, not just because of the relief we felt at having them in our hands, but because Andrew and graphic designer Jason Ng did an amazing job putting the magazine together; because Lucius Romero’s art was incredible on the printed page; because the printer did a fantastic job; because Richard Hatch, GWoM’s creator, seemed to be blown away by having it in his hands (finally); because of a million other little reasons, we had this beautiful magazine to share with the world. For $6.99 retail, of course.
Going to bed, I’ll report on day two tomorrow (on day two).
Christian Berntsen
Editorial Director
BLAM! Comics
clb@blamcomics.com
Not only did we make it, but our inaugural publication did as well! The Official Great War of Magellan Comics Magazine arrived without incident from our printer in Canada. So did the product from our publishing partner Vanguard Productions, the toys for Jeremy to sell, and the posters and promotional postcards. The only thing that didn’t make it was the package with the pegs and the rest of the hardware, including the can of paint that shouldn’t have been shipped UPS but was that exploded when the box was dropped. There’s a whole saga to that as we still have not received the package as of returning to the hotel tonight, but I’ll let our creative director Andrew recount that if should ever decide to post of this blog. In the end he wound up taking an expensive cab ride to Home Depot (our new saviors) and getting the required hardware.
That got us up and going, just in time for the early arrivals. In fact, just in time for our first customer, the lovely Jean. She honored us by purchasing not just one, but four copies of The Official Comics Magazine, and for that, we thank her. The rest of the day went fairly well, we chatted with the curious and non-curious alike, converting some of the latter and exciting the most of the former.
The magazines themselves were an amazing site, not just because of the relief we felt at having them in our hands, but because Andrew and graphic designer Jason Ng did an amazing job putting the magazine together; because Lucius Romero’s art was incredible on the printed page; because the printer did a fantastic job; because Richard Hatch, GWoM’s creator, seemed to be blown away by having it in his hands (finally); because of a million other little reasons, we had this beautiful magazine to share with the world. For $6.99 retail, of course.
Going to bed, I’ll report on day two tomorrow (on day two).
Christian Berntsen
Editorial Director
BLAM! Comics
clb@blamcomics.com
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