Thursday, June 25, 2015

Comicon 2015

Hear ye, hear ye. Let it be recorded.

Saturday, May 16th, my nephew and I attended our first comicon, the Midwest Comic Book Association MSP ComicCON at the Minnesota state fair grounds in St. Paul.

We arrived early, despite a drive that looked like this:


We donated food to save money on our wristbands:



Gathered our free swag:






And took it all in:


A month later, I'm still thinking about it. 

In a way, the artists and fans at a comicon are "my people." I didn't have to go out to buy an outfit for the day, I already had one. I've published books where a character has superpowers. I haven't read comics widely, but I knew who to write on a raffle ticket that asked for my favorite artists (Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess).

But I have other people. Theater people. Teachers. Cardinals, Cobbers, and Thunder Hawks. Campers. Readers. Wachtlers. Minnesotans. Put me in a group of them, and I'm at home. 



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