This Sunday, I’ll be appearing at Micro-Con at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul. Running from 10-4PM, it’s your chance to meet dozens and dozens of comic book pros and indy creators, including special guest of honor Herb Trimpe.
As always, I get to say hi to Tom Nguyen and Doug Mahnke, then check out Bob Lipski’s table and see how the Uptown Girl animated series is coming along. But one thing will be very different this convention:
I’m looking for an artist for Metro Med, so I’ll be doing (gasp!) portfolio reviews.
When Scott McCullar announced at a convention that he was doing portfolio reviews, we never saw him again. Granted, that was WizardWorld Chicago, but MicroCon is only six hours long and it gets enough of a crowd that I may not get a chance to breath until the end of the day.
Or maybe I won’t see any portfolios because no one wants to do it, and I’ll come home a broken and miserable man.
Oh, the trepidation!
Then again, it’s MicroCon. It’s always fun, and what I love about it is that the day is six hours long. Enough time to do all your shopping and meet everyone, but short enough that the guests’ buttocks don’t begin melding with the chair. When you do a con that’s eight hours long, you begin to realize you’re putting in a full work day.