Anime Boston is Over, Boston ComiCon Is Next
Before I tell you about Anime Boston, let me remind you all that I will be at the Boston ComiCon next weekend. Doors open at 10am, Saturday & Sunday. I hope to see lots of you guys there.
Anime Boston was amazing. My table-mate Mookie, our neighbor Garth, and the rotating cast of pretty girls who sat with us to lure in the LFB’s were fantastic. Artist’s Alley was a 13hr grind on Friday and Saturday, made especially insane on 3-4 hours of sleep a night. When AA shut down at 4pm on Sunday it was almost shocking. “But . . .I’ve only been sitting here for 7 hours . . .” I was so busy there was no time for drinking or going to parties. It was just one long endurance challenge punctuated with people bringing me food and coffee -god bless you guys! The whole things was fantastic.
The Widget came with me to the show on Friday and she was AWESOME. She insisted on working the cash-box, (truly her mother’s daughter), charmed the socks off people with her little china doll poofy/frilly dress and knee-high Chucks, and made me a dozen custom Atomic-Robo.com business cards to hand out. The cards were my favorite bit. People always ask for them, but I never have any. So Emma made a bunch of them up -each with an original illustration. My personal favorites were the card with stick-figure Robo facing off against a giant stick-figure ant, and the big Valentines heart, inside of which was written, “Earth <3′s A.R.”
I met so many Robo fans -old fans, new fans, and the ever growing iPhone fans. I gave away a stack of Vol.3 and Vol.4 comps that I had to people who looked interested but needed that little nudge -most of them came back. I also had about a half dozen people who bought one Volume and then came back for the other two the next day, or even a few hours later, wanting more. I went to AB with two big double stacked Diamond boxes full of TPBs. What was left by Sunday night fit into a grocery bag that I tucked into my suitcase.
Very flattering, very gratifying. Thank you everyone!
I did keep a small reserve stash of books at home for next weekend’s show, but I’ve only got 3 Vol.1 TPBs left. So if you need Robo Vol.1 and were planning on getting it from me you’d better be at the show when the doors open. Or just visit one of the many New England Comics stores sprinkled through Boston and pick it up. I’ll be happy to sign it for you if you bring it to the show.
Before AB I thought I had enough books to keep me in business through most of the con season. Obviously, I was wrong. It’s not a problem I mind having though . . .
