Cosplay and broasted potatoes. More cons should feature food trucks with broasted potatoes. Also, the two panorama-style photos are from the cosplay contest, which … Jesus.
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Hall of Heroes Con 2019 Cosplay, Day 1
Cosplay! Getcha cosplay right here! Highlight of the day: selling not one but two books to Genderbent Freddy Krueger In Comfortable Ugg Boots. Second highlight is the mother-daughter Wonder Woman combination, because come on.
Hall of Heroes Con this weekend! Probably!
Tuesday morning I woke up, had a massive coughing fit in the shower, took the boy to school, threw up in the parking lot at McDonald’s while trying to obtain my breakfast, photocopied some crap real quick and went home.
Wednesday morning I got up, assessed the current state of my body, and called in sick to work.
Today I went to work, but I spent most of the day regretting it, and every adult that looked at me told me to go home, and my team said “See you Monday!” as I was leaving my meeting early to go to urgent care.
Urgent care told me rather unconditionally to get a lot of sleep and not to go to work tomorrow. Like, I’ve got the note and everything.
I’m not a huge fan of burning three sick days in September, but that looks like what’s about to happen? And, oh, right, I’ve already paid for Booth 59 at Hall of Heroes Con in Elkhart this weekend. I’m probably not contagious but I already feel like the Monday after a con as is and the con hasn’t happened yet.
So, my attendance is … up in the air, right now, I guess? At any rate the show is at Center Six One Five in Elkhart, from 10-6 on Saturday and 10-5 on Sunday; my understanding is that tickets are reasonably priced. I … well, I’m supposed to be there? So I might be there? I might not? I might show up, and then die!
We’ll see. You should go, though. And if I’m there you should definitely buy books from me because I will be suffering for my art.
Convention update
Unfortunately, due to the Ongoing Medical Disaster, which I’m considering renaming the Ongoing Medical Calamity because “calamity” is a more fun word than “disaster,” I have been forced to cancel my appearance at IndyPopCon the weekend of June 7th. It is not a good time to be leaving town right now, and I don’t see that changing in the next couple of weeks, plus I would have to take the 7th off from work and I can’t afford to take any additional days not related to the OMD.
So that leaves me with no con appearances currently scheduled between now and Kokomo-Con X in October, and two in a row cancelled. I’m considering seeing if InConJunction, which is over my birthday weekend, and Hall of Heroes Con in September still have spots available. Maybe one more summer con if I can find somewhere to go. Anywhere have something they’d like to suggest, ideally this summer and ideally within driving distance of northern Indiana?
Hall of Heroes Con: Day 2
Not bad! 35 books sold over two days– not enough to leave a box behind but almost. Made my booth back and then a decent chunk of change besides and actually sold out of some of my titles for the first time ever. And I met Svengoolie, which I might talk about a little bit some other time because my reaction to doing so kind of fascinated me.
But we know you’re here for cosplay, so let’s get to the pictures. One of the individuals photographed below could etch glass with his or her own nipples. And it may not be the one you think it is! As always, click for bigger:
Hall of Heroes Con, Day 1
That … went well. I have already paid for my booth and then some, so tomorrow is going to be all profit, and since tomorrow doesn’t feature a home Notre Dame game at 3:30 (at which point traffic conspicuously dried up) I have high hopes that it could be even better a day than today was. That would be quite nice.
Also interesting: every con I’ve ever attended has had celebrity guests of some stripe or another, but other than Timothy Zahn coming to the booth next to me I’ve never really interacted with any of them. Seth Gilliam, Katrina Law, Kevin Sussman and John Schneider all walked past my booth several times, and it’s possible that William Katt did a few times too but I don’t actually know who he is so I didn’t recognize him.
(Seth Gilliam, in particular, is a ghost. The first couple of times he walked past I was the only one who realized who he was. I almost called him over to the booth the first time, thinking he was just a regular con-goer, and only stopped myself at the last second.)
Not as many cosplay pictures as I usually take, mostly because the one real disadvantage of my booth is that it’s not in a great place to ask people to stop for a picture. Every time I tried it led to a traffic jam, so I stopped doing it after a while. That said: enjoy, and remember you can click on the pictures to get a larger version!
Okay that’s better
Boothified!
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