#comicon tips

[julius-underscore-caesar]

OKAY BASED ON THAT AUNTIES MESSAGE IM FREAKING OUT BC I MIGHT MEET DAVID TENNANT AT MY VERY FIRST CON (ITS IN MARCH!!) AND THAT MEANS HE MIGNT HAVE RED HAIR WHEN I SAVE UP FOR A PIC AND GORLS AND LADS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN AND NOT MENTIONED THIS MEANS I CAN TELL MY FUTURE FAMILY THAT I MET DAVID TENNANT AT MY FIRST CON WITH CROWLEY HAIR COSPLAYING AS A HIJABI CROWLEY LIKE ICONIC? THEY CAN LOOK AT THEIR MOTHER AND EITHER CRINGE OR BE IN AWE. I AM TECHNICALLY SUPPOSED TO BE VOLUNTEERING RN BUT NOW IM SHAKING IN MY BOOTS AND IB EXCITEMENT Y’ALL PLS MANIFEST THAT THIS ALL WORKS OUT

(Also does anyone have tips on how comicons function and like etiquette so if i do somehow manage to go it, i can like, do it properly?)

[ralofofriverwoods]

For comicons is it like. Normal to cosplay as characters that aren’t really related to any of the panels

Me and friend are brainstorming cosplays and I. Have never done this before

[princess-pine-cone]

IM WORKING MY FIRST COMICON!!!! As a volunteer!!!! Any tips?

[141-jackal]

Debating trying to put together a last minute Soap cosplay for a local comicon next month.

Got some old airsoft gear, bestie has a plate carrier I can steal and stuff.

Will probably post pics if I do end up doin' it.

(If anyone has any tips, it'd be appreciated. I ain't done a cosplay before that ain't an OC)

[sparrowatheart]

Any comic con advice?

I’m going to the smallest one in my country

Ooh! How many days is it? Usually the smaller ones I've been to are only one day.

I'd say my biggest tip, no matter how big or small the con is, is to pace yourself. I've been to a lot of them where I get grumpy half through the day because I've overwhelmed myself or forgotten to eat. Know that it's okay to take breaks, and okay if you don't get to see everything!

Also don't compare yourself to others. You're going to see some amazing talent at any Comicon. That's what makes cons great! A bunch of talented people, coming together to enjoy what they love!

[impala-dreamer]

Meeting Jensen Ackles for the first time at Comicon in October. Any tips?

Oh how exciting!!

Well, I've met him like a dozen times, and I guess the best advice is to breathe lol. Relax, stay calm, look him in the eyes, and smile. He'll take care of the rest. It goes so quickly, but he really is kind and so nice to be around. You'll do great. 💖💖

[car-vroom-vroom]

AAAAA I'm going to ComiCon next week!!!! This will be my first time going, and I've already made my costume (a mushroom hat)! Does anyone have tips to get the most out of it?

[lullabow]

Need splatoon wig advice

I've never messed with wigs before and whenever I cosplayed before it was closet cosplay so I'm kinda nervous for this cosplay I'm doing for comicon and I need some wig advice

I wanna recreate this "bed head" hairstyle from splatoon 3 so if anyone has any tips/advice/tutorials I'd be super grateful

[1310ranchhouse]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: GATO (CAT) ARTISAN CROSSBODY LEATHER BAG TIGER FLOWER ASIAN ORIENTAL BUILDING.

[lovedutifullybriefcollectio-blog]

Week 6, Question 3

I am still developing my Linked In account so don't have a link to it yet. I do think the tip about adding skills and getting endorsement would be helpful for attracting employers. This shows your skills like a resume but add the part of someone's else confirming you have those skills. I would also like to incorporate the idea of adding "carrots" when making connection requests. As I am interested in the Film industry, i could suggest meeting someone at a local Comicon.

[markmonlux]

Weekly Dose of Mark

Friday, July 14, 2023, Tacoma, WA • 07/14/23

Joining me at Freelance Fandango this week were Greg Spencer Wolf, Haley Waddington, James Stowe, and Allen Gladfelter. I needed to take notes about our discussions and stories, as my head swelled with them when I got home. And now I can’t remember a single one. I do recall that Allen was coaching Greg on how to improve drawing fingers. Maybe the AI programs can take a few tips. We also discussed submitting to have a table at Arts at the Armory. I will apply only on Sunday as I already have booked for Jet City Comicon on Saturday, and the table agreed that most of my fanbase will be there that day.

Stickermule is doing a special this week where they offer a discount on a different type of sticker each day. This is great because my sticker inventory was getting low. However, I only had one design created for a round die-cut sticker, and I just picked those up a couple of weeks ago. But I knew I had to get started on my next Weird Elephant poster for a film titled “The Wickerman.” I was distracted by a few other tasks and didn’t start the project until the afternoon. But once I started, I worked on it non-stop. Well, I did stop to have dinner. I had a deadline. I needed to stop at 9:30 because that’s when I prep for bed. I pushed myself and finished. I then went online to submit the art only to discover that Stickermule’s deadline had passed. They were only offering their next daily deal, which was holographic stickers. I was bummed! This design wasn’t going to work for a holographic sticker. I was low on a design that I’d used holographic backing before and resubmitted that artwork. Oh well, at least I got a much-needed jump start to my poster design.

My friend Penny Firehorse has jury duty all this week. I don’t think she was ever called. Which meant she basically sat in a room all week on-call. I got a jury notice last month. I looked at it today to check the website for next week. Whoops! I got the dates confused and was supposed to be serving this week. I sent Penny a message, “Did I miss anything?”

I was picking up some take-out at Panda Express this week when I saw a small family of four waiting for their order. The husband was playing with their youngest, a boy who I guess was six or seven. He was a small bundle of energy in the dirtiest Crocs I’d ever seen. One fell off his foot as the father slowly strolled after him through the empty tables. In economic movements accomplished only by young fathers, he noted the missing croc and picked up his son just as the kid’s foot touched the floor. He then swung the kid into the errant show. All this went smoothly, even after the father was surprised that his child left a perfect brown footprint on the floor. Baby footprints on birth certificates were not as perfect. The father called his young pre-tween daughter over. She was nothing but long limbs and long hair. Impressed by the footprint, she returned to her mother, who was still seated and waiting for their take-out bags. As the daughter reported on the footprint, the look which crossed her face was not one of amusement. Instead, in was a combination of repelant disgust and mild horror. It wasn’t a fleeting expression. It landed on her face and remained there, much like her child’s footprint on the floor was going to be there until someone scrubbed it away. You could tell that this footprint wasn’t going to disappear with a sweep. Somebody was going to have to get a bucket. In the meantime, it drew attention to itself out of its sheer perfection.

Alley News

We have been eating peas with every dinner. Also coming in are cucumbers, which we are dicing up to include in our salads and zucchini. Krista picks it while it is still less than a foot long and very tender. I’ve asked her to repeat a chicken dish she made earlier this week, but this time with mushrooms. I think it will be perfect then. 

Last trimmed blackberry vines outside our front fence. I also removed many that were in the garden in the hedge that boarders our neighbor’s yard and acts as a screen to their chainlink fence. I filled both of our yard waste containers, which got picked up this week.

For the first time in seven years, the nearby Air Force base will be hosting an air show. One of their attractions is going to be the Thunderbirds. Today they practiced in the sky over our house. While this was noisy at times, it was also very entertaining. Judy Martin came out from under her carport to watch them. Our neighbors Pat and Cathy Smith were also looking up into the sky. They repeated their practice a few hours later when I walked to the Quick-E-Mart a few blocks from here. Krista encouraged me to buy some lottery tickets. Mega Millions is at $560 Million, Powerball is at $875, and the local Lotto is at $4.2 Million. “I want to retire next week,” Krista told me, “so be sure you get the winning numbers.” As I walked home, the four jets flew so low I swore I could read their nametags. SSSSWOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHH!!

I had some dreams this week:

July 6

#IDreamt in order to take a college course, I had to return to high school for a quarter. I wasn’t making any friends in art class.

July 7

#IDreamt my brothers Cliff and Stan were renting a multi-room rent-controlled apartment in NYC with some friends. They invited me to live there too. One of the friends was moving out. We were cleaning garbage out of a shared vehicle.

July 8

#IDreamt a mother kept wearing Pokémon themed clothing to annoy her daughter long after the daughter lost interest in the game as an act of long-burn revenge.

July 9

#IDreamt purgatory was a nearly abandoned Mall. Jack Elan saw my confusion and explained, “All these places are connected.” He then showed me around a corner to a bar in Thailand, where we ordered seared sirloin strips.

July 10

#IDreamt my personality split into multiple parts for a group therapy session. One part of me convinced the others that this was unproductive narcissistic feeding bull hockey.

July 11

#IDreamt while waiting for the hotel shuttle, I found several Hawaiian Shirts buried in the sand with a note from a thief, a guest at a hotel stole them from another guest to make a treasure map for their kids.

July 13

#IDreamt I was the first of several people to turn into a 16-foot giant. Large seeds were popping through my skin like acne. Scientists didn’t know what to make of it.

July 14

#IDreamt it was 1934 when an alien and his equivalent to a cow appeared on a secluded farm where a farmer, his wife, son, daughter, and their cow lived. Everything was fine until the farmer had a psychotic break.

I’m in the middle of a couple of movies right now. But here’s one I did finish watching on YouTube.

64. July 8

They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) Rating: 5

I watched this movie because I was curious about Extraction 2, and I like watching my movies in the sequence they were released. This is a highly challenging kill-count movie. It’s even a difficult explosion-count movie. The action scene goes at a breakneck pace through a warren of alleys, apartments, balconies, and slums. It kept me entertained as Fourth of July fireworks went off through the night and didn’t interfere at all with the view of the film.

More next week,

Mark

[dearchose]

I love it so much! It's super cute!! Even little sheerow! 💕

One memory that makes me giggle; When I went to comicon in that day, someone rushed to me to ask for a picture like they had just seen the greatest thing ever! It was really funny!

A tip for everyone, when you see a cosplay you like, ask for a picture! The worst that can happen is they will say no. But! If they say yes, you could come home with photos as souvenirs (along with artist merch XD )

*I sould be at Toronto's Comicon, so if you see me, you can say hello ^^ I'll maybe even show sneak peeks of my next art piece ;)

Then again, @kaite--s , love the drawing!

@dearchose i finished the drawing of your Rav cosplay!

It’s fast, But I hope you like it!

So, this definitely has a ravioli context for me.

[olderthannetfic]

I've been following the various conversations about fandom friendship for a while now and it's made me want to get up and actually put myself out there to make it happen for me. Do you have any tips for finding smaller local fan events? I mostly only know of the big nationally-known conventions like ComiCon and the PAX conventions.

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Fanlore often lists the dinky slash con type ones. You may have to do some research to see what's still running and what's dead.

Escapade Con is one I attend, for example. (Los Angeles, partly online this year, end of April 2022, but usually around February.)

We're voting on panels right now. The proposed ones are things like:

Age Gap: The Ultimate Taboo

"With fandom reaching more mainstream audiences, a new Worst Trope has arisen: any pairing where one character is more than three years older than the other. (I can hear you laughing. Stop that.) Let's talk about how this came to be "the worst" of fanfic tropes, exchange horror stories about the attacks on people who write or read it, and brainstorm ways to deal with this kind of schism between "old" and "new" fandom communities."

Scales Are Sexy

First vampires, then werewolves, now... tentacled fish-men? What's appealing about the monstrously different, and what does this say about how the socially acceptable expression of sexual desire changes over time?

(Personally, I think last time's "Fantastic Bits and Where to Find Them" monsterfucking panel was a better title than this one, but hey.)

Old con panels can give you a sense of the con's vibe. Are they salty and funny? Are they a bit more gentle for the sensitive?

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The very best success rate is a kind of con experience I haven't had in years. This is when the con is a small, fan-run one, the con is new (in its first 5 years, say), and you yourself are around college age with lots of other people that age also looking for new friends at the con.

The minute you go to a much older event or you're in a different phase of life, things feel harder. I know that feeling of being out of step with other people your age. Oh look, everyone got married 5 years ago, and now our lives have diverged. What do? etc.

This is not an insurmountable barrier, just an emotional pitfall to be aware of. You do have to put yourself out there a little more if it's a con of people who've known each other for 30 years.

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The LJ era produced a bunch of cons, lots of them now gone. The Tumblr era also produced cons, but I'm not as familiar with them. No, I don't mean the hot mess that was Dashcon. I mean the little fan-run Sherlock cons and such. If you're in a big fandom, there might be a little con for your specific thing.

There's a very old Kirk/Spock con that's still running and an old Starsky/Hutch one. There are more recent Sherlock-focused ones. Looks like 221B Con is actually coming up on April 8th in Atlanta.

On the online end of things, there are cons like Fujocon that not only bring people together during the con but tend to funnel them to various discords after. If you like discord communities, attending events can be a way to find some.

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For truly local and not $$$, I'd see what kind of geek meetups happen in the nearest big city. Some things, like the SCA, are more organized and easier to find. Fanfic-related meetups exist in some places, but not as consistently. Some people meet up to write their Yuletide fics together (in October/November). Sometimes, you can find meetups like that through some online fandom thing. Lolitas (people who wear that Japanese fashion) have meetups some places. So do anime nerds. If you don't find something fanfic-specific, you might find something for some flavor of geekdom you're into and/or that would have a good chance of members who also like fic.

Some of the oldschool geek subcultures and venues can be pretty white. (And that goes for the ones that make big protestations about social justice as much as for the ones that say nothing.) They're not necessarily bad, but it's just something to keep in mind if you haven't gone to geeky events in person before. Local anime meetups tend to be a little more ethnically diverse than the SCA in my experience.

One can always start some kind of meetup oneself. Meetup.com and Facebook seem to be the two big places people do it. It could be something like fanfic writers' club where you meet at a cafe to work on your stuff. (So if people don't show up much, you can at least work on your own stuff at said cafe.) Pick a place super convenient to you or a place that has some kind of geeky theme if there is one around.

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Of course, all of this is my perspective based on the US. It's going to be different if you're somewhere else (but I'm presuming not given what you mentioned).

[busg]

I went to comicon with my boyfriend for his birthday yesterday!! It was my first time there B)

There was this one booth we got stickers from and the person running it was talking to this other person abt still being on tumblr and I wanted to be like hey nice shoelaces is that bad

Unrelated but the booth also had the autism creature in a cage and a little tip jar to free him and after I put a dollar in there they gave me this sticky note:

[Image ID: a pink sticky note with the text "I stand with" and a picture of the autism creature. End of image ID]

[artobotsrollout]

Also, I forgot to ask

Do you perhaps know where to get the physical copies of the comics?

I wish I could give an easy one stop online seller shop but tbh I'm still looking for one too.

BUT I CAN STILL HELP!

As a warning, I'm basically a baby Transformers fan I'm so new 😂. I've only really been around for a year and a bit and I've only just started reading the comics so others will probably have better tips than me.

@optimistpax knows way more about comics and comic theory than me so give her a follow for more comic related discussions/content! They're basically the entire reason I could figure out how they were organized so I could read and yoink the stories I wanted. BLESS

All of my physical comics came from checking out local comic book stores so these suggestions largely rely on in person shopping. It might be a bit harder to do depending on where you live bc of COVID. So this will probably come across as a broken record at this point but before doing any of this remember to get vaccinated and follow safety procedures!

TRANSFORMERS COMICS HUNTING

IDW 2 is P easy to find.

They can be found in comic books stores and they are still available (unlike much of IDW 1) for reasonable prices online. The IDW website allows you to order through them! Indigo/Chapters might carry them as well.

Here's The World in Your Eyes on the IDW site!

IDW 1 from my experience is harder to find.

If you don't mind spending a bit of time, look up local comic book stores in your city/area and go check em out and spend some time searching through their stock. A lot of them have some transformers comics. All of my collection was found in local comic book stores.

They might take a bit of searching and asking for help from employees since they are an older series but they might be found tucked away in a corner or amoung the shelves. Look for the IDW labels on the bottom.

A lot of places organize their comics by publisher first and then alphabetical after that!

Different series have different colours and styles but this is what MTMTE's (on the left) and Lost Light's (on the right) spines looks like:

INDIVIDUAL ISSUES:

I've mostly shopped for volumes so IDK if individual issues might give you an easier time? Some stores sell EXCLUSIVELY comic books and some sell EXCLUSIVELY comic issues and some sell a mix. I'm likely gonna buy the Windblade comics and the new Shattered Glass comics as individual issues so I'll post how that goes! They can take some digging but they feature unique pretty art!!

Final Notes

Ideally go for comic store runs and go for as many stores as possible (potentially including indigo/Chapters and used book stores). You might luck out in an unexpected location.

If you can only hit a few, go for comic specific stores that keep older stock as well as new stock or that do trade ins. Places with new comics may not have many or even any of the old TF comics.

Check if you live in a place that holds expos or shows. If a comic expo like Comicon is ever held it essentially puts a bunch of your local and even out of city comic sellers all in one accessible place making your hunt potentially more efficient.

You can try searching on Ebay but that could add a shipping cost and/or require patience as you wait for someone to put the specific one you need up for sale.

It can very quickly get pricy so make sure to go hunting when you can afford to sink some money into it.

I hope this helps! Good luck comic book hunting!