GraniteCon

Scott Wegna
granitecon

So it’s quarter to seven, Dorinda is shuffling around the kitchen, the widget is in a comma wrapped in a “wubbie” at the kitchen table, and Clevinger in catatonic on my couch.

New Hampshire is flooded, and it’s still raining -I just want to go back to bed.

We had a good time at GraniteCon yesterday. Things were very slow due to the shit weather, but the people who did brave the sideways rain were swell. We sat next to the bodacious Sara Richard, who I am also sitting with at Anime Boston next month -assuming that the people who asked us to go ever actually tell us what’s going on. (and I know at least one of you guys reads this, so like, what’s going on with that?) Regardless of what happens with that, I’ll be at the Boston ComiCon April 10-11th.

I got to say hello to the folks from Sci-Fi Saturday Night, and I traded a Robo TPB to a dude for a pair of Ecto-Googles made by the fella’s from the Ghostbusters of New Hampshire. I also discovered that I am totally bummin’ without my old T-shirt guys. =( I had about 60 shirts -all smalls and mediums. How does that happen?

Anyway, show was fun, and then Brian and I grabbed some Italian with 3/4′s of my Tuesday night gaming group.

Today I’ve got to drag him back to Nashua for a podcast, then up to Manchester to sign Double Midnight’s Robo horde.

Speaking of podcast’s, this is the show Brian will be recording with, (and I was on last week); The Podcast Dell’Arte. I also think I forgot to post a link to my interview with the guys from Comic Book Outsiders. I know I put it on Twitter, but not so sure about the blog.

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  • Josh_B

    “Clevinger in catatonic on my couch.”

    You guys live a charmed life. ;)

  • John_Watson

    Scott and Brian– You guys totally rock! Thank you so much for signing that mountain of books and for the bonus surprise! It was completely unexpected and very much appreciated. You two are the classiest co-creators working in comics! Continued success to Team Robo.

  • http://ghostbustersnh.com/ Jon St. Pierre

    Hey Scott,
    just wanted to say how big of fans The Ghostbusters of New Hampshire are of Atomic Robo and we're really glad you dig the goggles!

    We posted the pic on our website of you wearing the goggles with us and a link to your site on the main page.

    We're looking forward to seeing you guys again in May for Granite State Comicon,

    Jon St. Pierre

  • Brandmeister

    Hey guys, unrelated question. I found my big bin of comics from when I was a kid. There's a few I plan to keep, but for the most part I'd like to dispose of the rest. There's a lot of random filler—I used to go to the bargain bin and buy anything that originally sold for 50c or less—but maybe some kid would think it's cool. Any thoughts on how to dispose of the lot? I'm perfectly happy to stick them in a U.S. Postal Service box and do a fire-and-forget. I don't really want any money for them (I suspect they're mostly worthless anyway), it's just I need to get them out of my folk's house, and I'm not going to haul them all back on a plane with me.

    Thoughts?

  • http://www.nuklearpower.com Brian!

    I can't think of anything. Libraries are always looking for donations, but they don't have much use for loose issues. Best option may be to give them to a kid you know personally through a friend or family.

  • Greymattersplat

    Free Comic Book Day is coming up on May 1st. Why not talk to your local shop and see if they might want them to use as giveaways? They'd skate by most of the jaded nerds who are only there to get the NEW free stuff and leave, and maybe actually make it into the hands of someone it will make a difference to.

  • Brandmeister

    Not sure I can work the kid angle. For bizarre genetic reasons that escape me, almost all of my friends out here have girls. Greymatter, I'll check out the local shops around my folks' place. Otherwise I'll end up dragging 40 lbs. of comics back in my carry-on luggage.

  • http://serge-lj.livejournal.com/ Serge

    Speaking of Brian's comment to donate comics to kids… Definitely. By the way, I sent a friend the first Robo trade paperback, for her 15-year-old son. She let him have it when he was done with his school assignments. He apparently took care of them fast.

    The Seduction of the Innocent is fun!

  • http://www.onegemini.com/ Blair

    Some hospitals will also take comic book donations, but you'd probably have to make a few calls about that.

  • Scott!

    No problem John!

  • Scott!

    The goggles are friggin' awesome!

  • Scott!

    What? Girls don't read comics? Mine does.

  • Brandmeister

    /shrugs

    What can I say, their daughters don't read comic books. It's even dumber because a lot of them loved movies like Spider Man and Transformers. One tweenie was telling me how Dark Knight was her favorite movie, and when I asked her if she'd ever read the comics she looked at me with a mixture of contempt and suspicion, like, “Batman was a COMIC BOOK? Bullshit.”

    I have no insightful explanation, aside from the usual hackneyed rubbish about video supplanting print, ad nauseum. It's a real shame, since comic books are a great bridge to get kids reading full-fledged books for fun.