MEETING COMICS

DRAWINGS (RANDOM)

Hey folks, this Monday I chose a random subscriber (with a random number generator online) to receive copies of my two books. This person opted to receive the books in PDF form, so I decided to give away another set. I haven’t heard back from the second person I drew, so check your email. The subject was: “Meeting Comics Email newsletter drawing: You're the second winner!”

I’m not going to tell you who won because I’m a privacy guy. If they want to post about it somewhere, great!

DRAWINGS (IN BOOKS)

I have a bunch of books with drawings in them right now. If you order a copy of MEETING COMICS or CLOCKING IN AND SELLING OUT from my webstore, I’ll send you one with a Val drawing inside at no extra charge! Some of them are even full color. I’ll choose the drawing you get. I think I’ve got something like eight or ten of each book ready to go with art inside. Here’s the link to the webstore! Don’t choose the more expensive art edition, just choose the standard edition and you’ll still get art.

This offer good until… let’s say until the end of next week.

EVENT REPORT

Last weekend I set up at the Acme Comics Free Comic Book Day Block Party in Greensboro. That brings me to a total of three shows so far this year: NOICE in Norfolk, VA on February 15, and the CHBoro Zine Fest and FCBD more recently.

The two recent events were both fun and weren't a long drive from home, but neither was a big money show for me. I think the audience and overall vibe of CHBoro has tended more toward earnest political and personal essays and art, and less toward amusing comic books, which is fair enough!

The Acme event was in downtown Greensboro. The Acme Comics shop was a block away from the little street fest, and there was some spillover from the shop to the market, but not as much as I had hoped. I think because the market wasn't immediately next to the shop that made it easy for people to not check out the market, which felt more ancillary than a part of the bigger event.

It also rained! My tent held up great, but not everyone's did, so after the first rain, about halfway through the event, maybe half the vendors left. During that rain, I actually had some good sales because people hung out in my tent and browsed my stuff. It also looked like it was going to storm again at the end of the day, so I packed up 45 minutes early and got my last box in the car just as the sky broke open.

Here's the cat food bag that held down one corner of my tent:

Considering everything, things went well. I got to see people that I like, and I made more than I thought I had once I added up my sales. CHBoro and the Acme event added up to fewer sales overall than I had at NOICE in February, but NOICE is consistently the high bar for sales for me.

I'll have one more event this month, the Durham Works on Paper Round Up, which is on a Friday evening. We'll see how that one goes!

There will be 60 vendors.
Friday May 23, 6-10 pm
At the Durham Armory
220 Foster Street, Durham, NC
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Oh, and I crashed the conclave where they decided the new pope. You can see me in the background of this picture of a holy man:

OK, take care! More comics soon! Thank you!

Thanks for reading!
Andrew Neal