HOUSTON'S 2009 COMICPALOOZA this weekend (May 2,3)

[AGGIEZ]

Anyone going? I'm hoping it's decent

 

HOUSTON'S 2009 COMICPALOOZA

[towards2112]

I'm in !!!

[AGGIEZ]

Picked up some great mid-grade Silver Age books from a guy from Dallas. Great prices, really happy with the books I got!

[thehumantorch]

Pictures?

[AGGIEZ]

Sure thing...

 

[AGGIEZ]

Got those and a few other higher grade bronze and copper age goodies.

[towards2112]

I'm going to be polite, because contrary to popular opinion, I do my best

not to be a total ahole.

The show was poorly run.

My apologies to Arcade[Leon] and MrSilvestri[sam]

for not finding them. I spent almost 4 hours at the Mall, and didn't recognize

too many people. The artists alley was actually pretty nice, and I visited with

almost all of the small press and aspiring writers/artists there. Most were

happy to be there, or so it generally seemed. Humberto Ramos was due

to be there, but the Swine Flu thing in Mexico kept him home. Sorry for

that to have happened, because the crowd that was there from opening to

around 2-3ish was actually pretty nice. The artists alley gets a B- from

me.

For a very small show, there was scads of room for the dealers to set up.

And I'm told that there were 3 NO_SHOW dealers. One aforementioned

guy from Dallas brought 8-10 tables of 50cent and lowball books, some

were actually pretty nice. I snagged $50 worth of highgrade Wolvies

from a box down under a table. Guy next to me dug out a short box

of very nice Spiderman, Amazing,Spec,Web, Tales, all pretty nice shape.

Talked to the table minder from Midnight, who I think was actually the

promoter, never saw the promoter or the event staff. [ NOTE TO ANY

PROSPECTIVE PROMOTER - Have at least ONE person in charge,

maybe throw down for some bright yellow tshirts that say "event staff';

or somesuch on.

I think if I would have set up with 40 long boxes of $1 stuff, I could have

made a killing, as I do believe that the crowd in attendance would have

supported it.

There were also 5 or 6 game and toy dealers there, but not being even

remotely interested in that myself, I didn't even glance at their displays.

Wife got her nails done at a boutique just in the middle of the artists

alley, so it gave me some spare time to poke around. Found an overpriced

GSXMEN 1 and two UNCX94's that I'm going to check out again next

week.

 

 

 

Oh, and I ate lunch at the Arby's, since we don't have one on

my side of town and took a couple home for an evening snack.

Regulars with scads of Horssey Sauce

[AGGIEZ]

towards2112 - you in any of those pics?

[towards2112]

No, wife won't handle the camera. And she's camera shy, but that's

her in the beige slacks in the first two pictures. She's being sensitive

about her fanny. She's on steroid therapy for some respiratory problems

and she's put on a few pounds in the last year or so, up til about

2 yrs ago she was 5'5" and weighed about as much as a whopper w/cheese.

Now I call her my little chubby .... 30+ years together. And she used

to manage the comic shop, probably still knows more about comics

than I do.

[Turtle]

I see you caught Jerry Rascoe sketching in one of those pictures. He's a good local artist and a few people got some stuff of his from the Florida a few weeks back.

 

You also caught Mike Champion, a buddy of mine who did these ones:

 

 

I'll have to get a report from him to see how things went.

 

Humberto was the last guy notable guy on the list, so I'm glad I didn't make the drive to go down just to see him. I was originally planning on going down the the show from Fort Worth, but there were too many cancellations. Ethan Van Sciver canceled, then Rags Morales. I saw that Herb Trimpe and Len Wein were "Guests of Honor" but this was around the time of the house fire, so I figured Len wouldn't show up. I emailed Herb and asked if he was going? He wrote back saying "I haven't heard from those guys down there in months". It sounds like it was pretty poorly planned the way the bigger names jumped ship. Did Matt Fraction show?

[AGGIEZ]

towards2112, we should ALL be so lucky! Congrats my man. 30 years is nothing to sneeze at...

 

PP, that really sucks. Houston could put together a pretty kick-A convention if there was someone who could plan\manage worth a flip. With WW TX being cancelled, there are alot of collectors and fans that would come out of the woodwork for an annual show. Too bad...

[towards2112]

Yeah, I think things fell thru for the promoter, John from Midnight Comics.

Actually a good location for a small show. I think that he learned a

lesson on promotion. Got the artist/writers section fairly well done,

but of course needed "the names" to show up. I've always been

curious about how much money needs to change hands for the

big names to show.

I didn't even get an email about the show, ever, I did know about

it, but with loosing my father in law and having mother inlaw getting

the triple bypass, time slipped by and I forgot about it.

If it hadn't been for Sam, I would have totally missed it.