Can You Spot The RCC?
(Photo stolen from Becky Linley’s Flickr)
There we are! I have returned unscathed from tabling for the RCC at this weekend’s Portland Zine Symposium. Yes, that’s the best picture of us so far. We got a chance to educate a lot of new folks on the ways of the Robopocalypse, and sell a bunch of comics in the process. Here’s a list of my personal highlights of the last two days:
- Realizing that after only a few weeks, I have sold more copies of The Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin: Volume 1 than any other book I’ve ever put out, combined
- About a dozen people telling me that they recognized my name and work from my illustrations in The Portland Mercury
- Two days full of cute zinesters as far as the eye could see
- Being (happily) forced to buy Brian Oaster’s At Home on the Earth. I have been meaning to buy this book for way too long. I kept picking it up and reading little bits of it whenever I’d see it at a shop, but for some reason never actually bought it. Throughout the two-day symposium, they held raffle drawings for various prizes. I won early on Sunday, but I knew I still had two more tickets in that bowl. Towards the end of Sunday, this book came up for raffle, so I started blabbing to my tablemates about how I really want to win it, I’ve been meaning to buy it for so long, etc. A guy checking out some of our comics turns to me and says, “That’s my book.” Wouldn’t you know it, Brian Oaster is standing right in front of us as I’m talking about his book! So I made him a deal that if I didn’t win the raffle (I didn’t) that I would buy one from him immediately. He was even nice enough to go back to his table and deliver my copy right into my hands! It’s a neat book and is only one of many great things I picked up this weekend. Here are some more:
- Hey, 4-Eyes #2: Jam-packed with optometric goodness!
- Eric Haven’s Tales To Demolish. I picked up all three issues. So much hatching! There’s a much better review of all three here, by Sarah Morean.
- The absolutely stunning (and WAY too cheap), Me No Like by Josh Journey-Heinz. It means so much to me to pick up a self-published book where it’s obvious that the creator has spent a lot of his/her time and energy in not only filling the interior pages with great work, but also realizes that a book is the ENTIRE package, inside and out.
- My favorite find of the two days has got to be Jacob T. Stoltz’s Should You Encounter A Cougar. 18 pages of solid cougar-encountering info. It’s cheap, buy one.
There is also an RCC jam-comic rundown of the two day event over at our LiveJournal community.
