Chris Schweizer

While I was getting ready for bed I started singing "King of the Road" in a minor key and you know what, "King of the Road," slow, in a minor key, is spooky! But so is anything sung slow and in a minor key, I guess

Not for nothing but I think our so-far A+ governor Andy (who I believe is entertaining a 2028 presidential run) checks all these boxes

Excellent write up on cost/benefit for artists at increasingly-pricy shows. One of the reasons that I, and so many others, so esteem HeroesCon, is that they curate and comp tables for a LOT of artists, including "new" artists. My first "real" table was at Heroes... www.comicsbeat.com/is-artist-al...

...off and make an already trying time in a career more precarious. I have no idea what a n ideal setup might look like, or if there even is one - I love that different shows have very different approaches.

Excellent write up on cost/benefit for artists at increasingly-pricy shows. One of the reasons that I, and so many others, so esteem HeroesCon, is that they curate and comp tables for a LOT of artists, including "new" artists. My first "real" table was at Heroes... www.comicsbeat.com/is-artist-al...

You only have to sell 18 prints at $20 to make back table because they only cost you $2 each to print. 18 is not a lot for a print! The math favors prints, stickers, doohickies. Were costs less, would we see more comics/books? Maybe!

Excellent write up on cost/benefit for artists at increasingly-pricy shows. One of the reasons that I, and so many others, so esteem HeroesCon, is that they curate and comp tables for a LOT of artists, including "new" artists. My first "real" table was at Heroes... www.comicsbeat.com/is-artist-al...

Don't get me wrong - I love making the ephemera, and sharing it! The Christmas stuff, the paper figures, the mountain monsters - it's still storytelling, it's still stuff with which I have a deep emotional connection. But it ain't comics!

Excellent write up on cost/benefit for artists at increasingly-pricy shows. One of the reasons that I, and so many others, so esteem HeroesCon, is that they curate and comp tables for a LOT of artists, including "new" artists. My first "real" table was at Heroes... www.comicsbeat.com/is-artist-al...

...Outlaw's Apprentice is something I both want to do AND have the agency to do, having my own stock; I'll do shows where I don't necessarily make bill-paying money in order to get copies into peoples' hands. BUT this means that a lot of mid-size shows are out; if they're not giving me a table...

Excellent write up on cost/benefit for artists at increasingly-pricy shows. One of the reasons that I, and so many others, so esteem HeroesCon, is that they curate and comp tables for a LOT of artists, including "new" artists. My first "real" table was at Heroes... www.comicsbeat.com/is-artist-al...

And since I'm not trying to grow a readership at shows - if book publishers want you to, via direct sales and gladhanding, they don't make it easy - I only do the shows where I know I'm making money. And those shows tend to lend themselves to prints and ephemera (I bring my art books, and...

Excellent write up on cost/benefit for artists at increasingly-pricy shows. One of the reasons that I, and so many others, so esteem HeroesCon, is that they curate and comp tables for a LOT of artists, including "new" artists. My first "real" table was at Heroes... www.comicsbeat.com/is-artist-al...

I make ephemera for fun (and have generally turned what I do for fun into regular Patreon offerings), and if I do a couple of new prints a year then it is a big year. Comics are and continue to be my main artistic output, but at shows? You wouldn't know it!

Excellent write up on cost/benefit for artists at increasingly-pricy shows. One of the reasons that I, and so many others, so esteem HeroesCon, is that they curate and comp tables for a LOT of artists, including "new" artists. My first "real" table was at Heroes... www.comicsbeat.com/is-artist-al...

There's definitely a "shows are a business" with a lot of conventions, and sustainability absolutely matters. But, as mentioned in the article, what GENERALLY sells isn't books, but prints and other ephemera (my hands-down bestseller is a set of Appalachian Folk Monster cards). And when shows...

Excellent write up on cost/benefit for artists at increasingly-pricy shows. One of the reasons that I, and so many others, so esteem HeroesCon, is that they curate and comp tables for a LOT of artists, including "new" artists. My first "real" table was at Heroes... www.comicsbeat.com/is-artist-al...

I read-via-audiobook the first 3 of the 4 books in the recent English translations of Jin Yong's LEGEND OF THE CONDOR HEROES but took a break when it started to feel repetitive (book 3 is them running into the same people they've run into a dozen times before). But I'm back, and 4 is a delight!

Repetition is ALWAYS a fret when you're dealing with a serialized narrative employing a large cast of repeating characters and while there are ways around it for the writer, the best way to enjoy said narratives is to not read/watch years' worth of output in a couple of weeks