May Expo was awesome!! Went both days for the first time, and it was amazing. Highly exhausting though.
Good Points!
- Getting driven to the station in a sports car. Was totally not expecting that... And one of my none-expo going friends was there, and took a picture of our saturday group! We had pictures already and it was only 6:30 in the morning.
- Getting down there before expo even opened, and realising I was on the same bus as John Aggs and Sally. Then managed to bump into Volker (looking extremely awesome as usual) and then Sonia and Matt heading hurridly in the opposite direction.
- Buying so many small-press comics that my bag had broke by 2:00. I had to be rescued by
mangazebra who luckily had a spare bag with her! Thank you muchley! I owe you one!
- Sweatdrop meets and ITCH signing. So many awesome people I met. Thanks to everyone I met, you guys were all awesome. And thank you very much for putting up with me - I seemed to float around not doing much.
- Seeing Codename:Pepsi in print! So many late hours were put into that, so it's amazing to see it actually finally printed!!!
- And talking of making comics, the DIY Comics panel was also amazing!! I was a bit late - I heard Pud over the loud speaker from the artists alley, ditched all my stuff and left it with Kiri, grabbed my markers and artist alley piece and rushed over there. It was really good!! The advice was certainly helpful!!
- Also thanks to Willie for letting me sit behind the ITCH table for an hour! I even managed to sell something while Willie was caught up talking to Paul and Kate!
- Getting interviewed for Italian Web TV... Not quite sure what this was about actually... We had managed to gather everyone for the Sweatdrop meet, just sat down and started talking when this lady comes up to me and says my Ed cosplay is very good. We think she's just going to leave it at that, but she then says that she has an Italian Web TV film crew with her and would I mind being interviewed?? Completely freaked out, I said yes and spent the next 30 seconds fretting (particualry as by that time I'd lost well over half of the Ed costume) and then made a right fool of myself in front of the camera... They then persuaded to interview Kiri and I believe they caught Marbles as well?? Anyway, the website is here
http://www.cooltoon.tv but I don't speak a word of Italian so I don't know what's going on there...
- Just generally everything. So many awesome people were there and you all helped to make my days really extra awesome!! So thanks to everyone and anyone I ran into!!
Seeing as there weren't any real bad points (apart from the tiredness and general "aghh my feet hurt") we shall move onto pictures!
( Pictures under here!! )So, I guess that wraps it up. In short, Expo was awesome and I will definitely be back!