Tag: C2E2

A Year in MINIons- MINIon #2011

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Bruce

2011In 2010 C2E2 was the first convention to grant me a Professional Badge… Now to be honest I signed up as a teacher not a cartoonist, but still It was a pro badge. In 2011 I remember sitting the hotel bar that had been taken over by Comic Book Resources, if I recall correctly (but probably not), and they had a special convention beer on tap- one made  by one of my favorite breweries,  3 Floyds, it was called Zombie Dust & I had found a new favorite. As part of a collaboration between the brewery and the comic book industry.  In later years Revolution Brewing in Chicago (not Indiana) provided the official convention beer “Galaxy Hero” which is good, but nothing compares to Zombie Dust. Since then micro-breweries actually have a panel at C2E2 to discuss comics and beer.  I’m not alone in my appreciation for Zombie Dust, since it is a holy grail for some beer snobs. I just like it and as the school year draws to a close it is nice to have around the house after a hard week in the classroom.

Apologies to Tim Seeley for monkeyfying his artwork, but a guy who draws monkeys has to do what a guy who draw monkeys has to do.

 

Sue joined me at C2E2 this year (last year he headed up for one day, this time she came up for the entire weekend) and never set foot in the exhibit hall.  She didn’t want a badge (imagine that) and just told me to go have fun.  I was glad that she also had some fun too.

Sue and I tend to get confronted with questions when we are together about the key to being happily married for over 20 years (much to the chagrin of my parents).  To me it is simple- Sue has never really tried to change me, and I have never tried to change her (fine… early on, we both tried, but after a while we both gave up).

I tend to get grilled about how I could be so understanding when Sue is at a yarn shop or needlework store spending money.  More shocking is that I will join her on this little expeditions.  We both have our hobbies and if we were to total things up I’m sure we would come out even, besides (as Sue’s parent’s point out) we ended up growing up together and while we might not completely understand each other’s eccentricities they are what makes us special.

So when Sue talks about buying Mink yarn… I might roll my eyes, but I know she will do the same thing when I “need” the most recent gadget or a classic comic book.

 

Whoops! Enjoy!
Fine… I’m already in Chicago having arrived earlier today (early enough to get today’s strip drawn) and now am trying to figure out what I’m going to do. I have tickets to see Neil Gaiman on Saturday night and I have a bunch of sessions I want to attend- the problem might be that a lot of what I want to attend overlaps other things I want to attend. I’ll be tweeting @professorzoom as things happen and Cecil and I will be posting pics to flickr when we can. If you are interested check out C2E2 online to see what is going on.  I am attending some sessions dealing with integrating graphic novels into the curriculum, so this does tie back to school.  Then again a number of my students have asked me to get Jeff Smith to autograph something (they all have read Bone).  I brought Penfold so I shouldn’t have to ship anything home.