{"id":1223,"date":"2013-10-17T00:21:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T04:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2013-10-17T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T04:21:04","slug":"my-only-problem-with-new-york-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"My only problem with New York Comic-Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/daily498.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1225\" title=\"I love chibi Batman drawings as much as anyone, but I want to see YOUR stuff\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/daily498.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"677\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More con report after the cut:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I know cute drawings of superheroes sell, but I go to Comic-Con for <em>comics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I sold comics at the Geeks OUT booth on Friday and Sunday. I had a lot of people stop, look at the cover of &#8220;Orientation Police,&#8221; and ask &#8220;Are you on Tumblr?&#8221; Yes, yes I am.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1228\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/nycc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1228\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1228 \" alt=\"nycc\" src=\"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/nycc-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/nycc-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/nycc.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me with Jeff Krell, creator of the gay comic strip Jayson.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I managed to sell quite a few books, including 2 copies of <em>Anything That Loves,<\/em> a dozen copies of &#8220;Orientation Police,&#8221; and one of the 300-page <em>Amazing Adventures of Bill<\/em> collections.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s good, because I spent almost exactly as much as I made on the following comics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_4863a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1229\" alt=\"IMG_4863a\" src=\"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_4863a-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_4863a-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_4863a-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_4863a.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t see, that&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thrillingadventurehour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thrilling Adventure Hour<\/a><\/em> graphic novel (excellent so far, and I got it signed by Mark Evan Jackson after the performance Friday night),<\/li>\n<li><em>The Only Living Boy #2<\/em> by fellow Brooklynite David Gallaher and Steve Ellis (haven&#8217;t read it yet, but it&#8217;s very pretty)<\/li>\n<li><em>Five Weapons<\/em> by Jimmie Robinson (funny, well-drawn book about a school for assassins)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Way We Write<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/rachaelsmithillustration.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachael Smith<\/a>. This full-color mini-comic was great fun, and I came back the next day trying to buy her book I am Fire, but couldn&#8217;t locate her in the chaos of Artist&#8217;s Alley. Curses!)<\/li>\n<li><em>Gifted<\/em>, from Yale Stewart, the creator<a href=\"http:\/\/jl8comic.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em> JL8<\/em><\/a>. Meh. But JL8 is really cute!<\/li>\n<li><em>Lipstick &amp; Malice #1-3<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/eatyourlipstick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monica Gallagher<\/a> (it&#8217;s about a supermodel\/spy. haven&#8217;t read it yet, but she&#8217;s great)<\/li>\n<li><em>Rat Queens<\/em> #1. Foul-mouthed fantasy series, very similar to&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em>Skull-kickers<\/em> vol. 4 by Jim Zub and Edwin Huang. I&#8217;m reading the 4th volume, you can bet I like it<\/li>\n<li><em>Courtney Crumrin<\/em> Vol. 4: Monstrous Holiday (I bought this planning to get Ted Naifeh to sign it, but never tracked him down. Curses again!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More con report after the cut:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-comic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics.billroundy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}