Well i'm not long back from London and I must say that the thing was a roaring success!

First of all a breakdown of the operation. I went down with 30 comics (which were A5 booklets each containing about 30 comics + other stuff), two different free leaflets for people to get a taste of the comic and around 20 prints (of the type now available through Deviantart).

I didnt plan to take so many prints but there was a mistake at the print shop so what the hell!

I also took 4 sketchbooks of the comic so people could peruse them and see how the magic happened. In addition the major eye candy for the stand was an LCD monitor and my laptop/tablet. I figured that this would enable me to show the comic process as well as draw peoples attention to the stand with some moving images.

The most important thing I brought were two helpers in the form of Steve and Dave (Also characters from the comic) Who helped me man the tiny stand and Generally keep me alive with snack foods.

First Impressions arriving and setup was that there seemed to be a real mix of products on offer and comic types. The good thing was that only one other stand had a monitor which made me stand out really well! After setup I sent out my spies to determine whether my products were approprately priced. Before the doors opened I ventured out to explore the other stands. Art from ScaryGoRound (www.scarygoround.com) was more than I could stand so money started to change hands. Initially business was light but it was a special feeling indeed to sell my first book and see the confused punter walk away with this strange collection of non-sensical ideas and humor that I called a comic book.

1 comic sold by 10 oclock and I was beginning to feel aprehensive. Steve and dave went to get coffee while leaving me the challenge to complete a piece of londong centric artwork featuring me and the queen. The finished piece titled "accidental regicide" will no doubt show up here soon. I took a little break and went for a wander leaving the stand in the capable hands of dave and steve.

5 minutes later I returned to find the stand flooded with clients! Showing my salesmanship talents up for what they were, Dave and Steve were charming the pants off everyone that passed by makign sure that all left with a leaflet and more thana few left with a comic!

This stratagem worked out well and soon commerce was frantic. At one point I was signing several books at a time while attempting to demonstrate manga studio to interested parties. We sold out of books before 3pm and after that my minions concentrated on the prints. We sold a good few prints but my main happiness was that our book stock was decimated!

There are really too many moments and fun things to relate in one post but I feel I must take a moment to highlight some of the excelent people I met at the con.

Next to us was the excelent comic LocalGirl(carolineclifford.com) Who's co-exhibitor didnt turn up. But with three men on our stand we gladly provided a stand in to let her eat / Drink.

I also had a long chat with niki ( [link]) Which was excelent as I had already seen a lot of her work on Sudeki. Its always nice to see full art portfolios also since all I had were my crummy sketchbooks.

Many many others also, My mind is still swimming So I have no doubt forgotten to mention many people. In any event, a good time was had by all!

On the monitor, if I wasnt drawing I showed a video of me drawing. In addition to that I stuck the daicon IV video on (which got a lot of interest). Which wasn't entirely without point. An Ambitious project of mine is to enginner the resoration of the Daicon IV music video into glorious high definition. This essentially involves re-animatng the entire video cel by cel. All 6500 odd cells of it. An ardous task for one man, but not perhaps for a few hundred thousand anime fans. More on this project as it (hopefully takes shape in the summer when I have more time)

Anyway. I Have been thouroughly inspired to draw more and hopefully will be dumping far more content into DE in the near future!