Trev

First milestone for me is booking airfare in late Jan.

I went through our calendar for Saturday and there's no way I'm going to make this one -- bummer.

My kids have 3 events and we have a social engagement that evening.

I hope it goes well and everybody has a good time. If we would like it to rotate, I would volunteer to help organize for Austin.

Here's my CAF gallery -- http://cafurl.com?i=22623

Note that I have been slow to update my gallery and still a lot that is not on here. My lack of a decent way to get art scanned up to a month or two ago is the reason.

I am going to try and attend. Excited to get this going and love the name.

Back on the schedule.

and back to November! grrr. I was hoping they would avoid the holiday season again.

wizard really needs some leadership changes. what they do with this show makes almost 0 sense. I remember when people were afraid to schedule something near a wizard show -- now I think it would be tempting to setup a comics only show opposite wizard at the palmer center.

I spent a few hours at the show yesterday evening. I really enjoyed visiting with the dealers and picking up books. I tried to spend some with every dealer I wanted to return to the show. There aren't any other shows in Austin, so want to encourage more dealers to come to this one.

The high points:

1. It was the best layout I've seen at the show for years. Aisles were organized primarily by what they were selling -- all the comics dealers were relatively close together. Then AA, then the celeb pics at the back.

2. Picked up books from almost all the dealers. High Grade, Duncanville, Black Cat, Monster Lair, Rick's

3. Was able to spend a few hours there rather than the 20-30 min I spent last year.

The low points:

1. Still no carpeting on the show floor. This really detracts from the atmosphere and I'm sure doesn't help the people standing in booths all day

2. It's a single day show that runs over 2.5 days. I don't see any reason anybody would necessarily need to be there all 3 days.

3. AA needs work -- too many prints, not enough published artists, and the few they had that were published were guys from the 90's selling photostats of original art for $20 a piece.

4. I would say Wizard used up about 50% of their available space and that was even spreading things out quite a bit. They could cut their rates in half, fill the hall, and do better from a dealer and attendee perspective.

Here are the pics I took of the dealers, etc.

LOTS of available space

High Grade

Duncanville

Black Cat and Monster's Lair

Rick's Comic Crypt

Good luck everyone, I'd love to be there. I miss this show's heyday.

me too. looking forward to doing some back issue shopping this afternoon and perusing artists alley.

should be relatively quiet for the non-comics folks today as most of the "big" celebrity names are scheduled for sat-sun only.

list of artists is a little weak, but hoping I find someone with an interesting style and not a bunch of people selling posters and knick-knacks.

As far as comic dealers, I will be there, along with:

 

Ricks Comic Crypt

Duncanville Bookstore

and Black Cat Comics.

 

I think the regular three day schedule, and the move to September will help this show! We will all have a great selection of comics! We will see what wizard has filled the rest of the show with though. Its been about three years since I've done this show, and I've heard about the time-share, and exotic animal booths. I've got my fingers crossed that this one will be great!

Cool that Duncanville is back this year -- last they told me, they were boycotting all the wizard shows because of the high table rates.

Will groupon it for Friday probably.

man, i was REALLY hoping that the move to sept would result in a better show, but i am not getting a good vibe from the guest list. Even the groupons that are out there are insane expensive. I think last year I did this show in well under an hour and left.

when it was in dallas and even the first few years in austin, it was a decent show. Now, it doesn't seem to be about much other than media guests and autographs. . .

the exhibitor list isn't even published and this show starts next week. I get the feeling there will be very few comics dealers.

i don't get it -- what are they supposed to be?

Seven months away. Doesn't look like Wizard has changed their booth prices, unless you count raising them by $100, so it'll cost you $1,100 to sell in Des Moines vs $1,500 for the four day Chicago show.

that is INSANE. des moines will also draw from lincoln and omaha, but still. Wizard should do tiered pricing like SDCC does where different kinds of vendors have different rates.

I'm in des moines a bit for work, was thinking I might try to hit this show, but with these rates I'm not sure they'll get many decent dealers there.

Just bought a few books from Ed. He was great to deal with, fast responses and amazingly fast shipping and packaging.

Saw a FaceBook post that has this con taking place Oct 31-Nov 1 in Norman at the Embassy Suites. This is the weekend after WW Tulsa and shares the Saturday with WW Austin. I'll post more when I find it.

I would have more interest in this than in WW Austin if it weren't on Halloween weekend. This is an old school con in the truest sense and iirc it brings in a lot of the old guard collectors and dealers catering more to GA and SA than to what was on WWE Smackdown last weekend.

If anybody knows where I might be able to get the cover to Betty and Veronica 280, please PM me.

Here's the cover image: http://www.comics.org/issue/222341/cover/4/

Here's one I just picked up. Still working on my Pym TTA run.

Picked up these two beautiful UK issues on a recent trip to London. I think they are easily 7.5 -- maybe better. Could not pass them up.

Been a while since I posted anything new on this thread. Picked this up the other day and pretty excited. I've cracked the first 10! Haven't made a major FF buy in almost two years and that was an 11.

Great run! That's really difficult to put together.

6.5-7.5 is my sweet spot. Lots of good value and eye appeal in mid grade. The bulk of my silver collection is 4.5-7.5.

Is there something fishy here?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/171063030742?afsrc=1

seems odd for a seller to have 0 feedback and lead with a book like this

This is the first piece of OA I obtained and got me started. From JSA Classified by Pat Oliffe and Drew Geraci. I got the piece at Wizard World Texas in 2006 or 2007. I got back into collecting around late 2004 and that Wizard World show was my first ever Con that wasn't a simple hotel show. I bought a sketch book there and thought I would get started.

I got a Batman sketch by Steve Epting and then finally settled to spend the rest of my art money on a commission by Drew. I told him what I wanted and left my sketch book with him. Checked back the next morning and he hadn't gotten to it yet. Finally, about an hour before the con ended he gave me back my book with nothing added and an apology. I was really disappointed because I had passed the opportunity to get other sketches because he was holding my book and now had nothing and I told him so.

Seeing that I was disappointed he offered my any page of OA he had for free and I chose this page because of how much I had enjoyed the arc. So, not the first page I ever bought, but my first page.

After that, I think this was the first page I ever bought. Off of ebay for $45. Another Oliffe piece, but this time a page from Booster Gold. I spent most of the next few years on commissions and sketches and didn't really get into OA until a friend helped orient me a bit at SDCC in 2009.

Been working on GA Archie's for a year or two. Don't have many yet, but did just get this one today that I love. Early B&V in VF condition.

working on a MTU run. Here's my latest that I picked up at Austin Comic Con

Picked these up at Austin Comic-Con from Bob Storms:

and here's a couple more I picked up