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MegaCon 2010: A Perspective from Artist Alley

Posted by Guy Incognito on 14 March 2010, 8:30 pm

So I just got back from a weekend at MegaCon 2010! For the uninitiated, MegaCon is the largest comic convention in the Southeast. It takes place at the Orange County Convention center in Orlando Florida, which for three days is packed to to the brim with all sorts of people in the comic and anime industry. I had a table there in the artist alley to promote my comic, Bonejangles, along with dozens of other independent artists.

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The weather was pretty nasty on Friday, but the cosplayers and hardcore fans still turned out en masse and the convention got off to a great start. Things really picked up on Saturday, the day of the famous MegaCon costume contest. Really, Megacon is all about the costumes, and there were hundreds of cosplayers. You couldn’t throw a pokeball on the showroom floor that day without knocking out some be-cat-eared otaku.

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There were a lot of famous people there, including Frank Cho, George Perez, Nichelle Nicoles, Brent Spiner, Billy Dee Williams and John de Lancie, the guy who plays Q of Star Trek: TNG (The best joke of the con came early Friday morning when there were relatively few people in the celebrity area. The announcer said, “Now’s your chance to meet John de Lancie, because there is no queue for Q.”).

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Artist Alley was really hoppin’ for the whole convention, and I was fortunate enough to share an aisle with some terrific talents. First of all, I was lucky enough to get a table next to Rhi Owens (pictured above) the wonderfully talented artist and sketch card portraitist, and costume designer Stephanie of Crystal Ball Costumes. I also got to meet the guys from BSX22 Studios, the metal band Cellpan, Don Myers of T-Shirt
Bordello, and Joe of Zombie Salad Comics.

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All in all it was a great show and I got to meet a bunch of cool people. The Pirate Pass-Off proved to be a hit as well, particularly among the cosplayers actually dressed as pirates, so thanks to Cramulus for providing those!

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Pandora’s Box

Posted by Guy Incognito on 7 March 2010, 4:44 pm

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Schrödinger’s Lolcat

Posted by Guy Incognito on 28 February 2010, 10:30 am

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Bullshit Detector

Posted by Guy Incognito on 21 February 2010, 6:44 pm

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A Review of Intermittens 9

Posted by Guy Incognito on 17 February 2010, 4:27 pm

I know we were all excited when the prominent Discordian mystic and all around nice guy The Other Anonymous decided to take the time from his busy preaching schedule to edit the next issue of INTERMITTENS. I, myself, could hardly stand the wait to see what this Pinneal mastermind would come up with. The end result– and I say this with no small amount of regret– was a touch on the disappointing side.

First of all the cover art. Well, there wasn’t any. A bold choice, and certainly one that lives up to the theme of the issue, “A poor choice of editors” but in the end I feel it was a bad decision. The cover is what sets the tone for the issue, it’s what makes a zine a zine rather than just a flyer.

Which brings me to the next point: content. Where this issue is perhaps most sorely lacking is in content. Gone are the stories, articles and comics that are typically a staple of our beloved pseudoperiodical. And of course, that would be fine if the editor had seen fit to replace the traditional content with something new and exciting. But such was not to be, and the bulk of the issue seems to be dedicated to vacuous platitudes. “Log off?” “Go outside?” “Live life… passionately?” Why, thank you for reminding me, I was in danger of forgetting to do that.

That’s not to say the issue is without its good points. There is an incisive and poignant quotation attributed to the editor of the previous Intermittens, which might have been, in and of itself, enough to salvage the entire issue. It certainly helps to highlight the sad and fatalistic irony of this issue.

But perhaps that was the whole point? Irony? And that may be, and I can respect this issue as an attempt at a radical experiment with the Intermittens format. But it is, in the end, a radical experiment gone horribly awry, a pathetic Frankenstein’s monster of an issue. But if nothing else, this issue has taught us that substance cannot be subtracted from the Intermittens equation.

The sparse clipart illustrations are lackluster and disappointing, only serving to underscore what might have been. Overall, this issue was not worth the split-second of download time and the wear and tear on my hard drive from hastily deleting it.

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