Comic-Con is like the superbowl for nerds. It's an event that hundreds of thousands of people wait all year for, but it in the end all anyone really cares about are the commercials. I had been lucky enough to attend the convention last year as a fan, but this year, thanks to the generous donations from Wake Forest's Entrepreneurial department, my friend and co-creator Mike and myself were able to journey here to show our comic book, The Lightning Brothers, to publishers, artists, and anyone else willing to look at it.
Even the hotel knew what was up!
As Mike often remarked, it was a perfect day outside, and we had to spend it indoors.
The convention floor was even more overwhelming than I remembered, it was super-crowded and very cold (despite being 70 degrees outside, the convention center had its air-conditioning on full-blast, probably as a service to the people in poorly circulated costumes). After wandering around for a bit, Mike and I made our way to DC's talent search presentation, also known as "Dream Crushing 101."
Afterwards, we scrambled to get our submission packet together, and then dropped it in the tiny slot on the side of the DC booth. Sadly, we did not receive a call-back.
we spent the majority of the day waiting in lines like this.
At the very end of our first day, we got to meet with an art director from Nickelodeon. We had been worried for a while that people wouldn't know what to do when presented with an entire self-contained book as opposed to a portfolio, but he seemed generally impressed with the book, although he suggested I attempt to add a more "elastic" quality to my artwork.
All in all, our first day at the con was overwhelming and nerve-wracking, but our efforts were rewarded, for upon returning home, we discovered the most authentic tex-mex burrito place to ever grace the western coast.
seriously. It made it all worth it.
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