I spent the few days before the con madly printing things. I made business cards, and sketchcards, and, first and foremost, printed copies of Spilled Wine and the roughbook for chapter one of Basic Training. And, in printing the roughbooks, I realized something about the cover that means I definitely have to redraw it in the Watercolours (That's okay, I had been planning to anyway, because the cover is awful...). Namely, that one of the characters is going invisible.
And then people bought them. Two different people bought a copy of Spilled Wine, one of whom also got a copy of Basic Training. Another person traded me for both. One person who stood and read the entirety of Spilled Wine looked up with awe and said she hopes I get published. I count this con as a success, regardless of the fact that I made a grand total of $25.
On the first day, I dressed as a member of the Imperial Leadership Core, recently graduated from the Academe. This means I was wearing pretty much exactly what Killroy Kestrel is wearing in Spilled Wine. It's green and black. On the second day, I dressed as Gary, who is both my Default Con Costume, and a character from yet another thing I'm working on, with the Little Sis I go to Cons with (Who is also my editor, etc. for Spiader Webs ). This con, I did not get a "nice rack" comment. That was nice. Plenty of people liked the antlers and wanted to know how I held them on (String!).
Spiader Webs seems to have at least a minimal following. About five people see the page every day, which is awesome.
Before Con, I took five copies of Spilled Wine to my local comic shop. I have to go in there and
Actually, all four of the comics that I have on the web currently are getting at least minimal attention at the moment....
This is scary.
