(Historical Notes: Okay, there’s not a lot else to say about the crowds beyond “they got worse and worse every single year,” so I’ll dig into the comic making process itself. As you can see, I really started to push[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been to the Gaylord for… I’m not ever sure how many things at this point, and I’ve NEVER seen a crowd logjam as bad as the TWRP/NSP crowd surging out of the concert hall over to the merch table.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Context: The Cobb Galleria was designed as a “specialty mall”, where half the building is mall space, and there’s an entrance to the convention center where the anchor store would be. Because the con more or less takes over the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This big story about Otakon this year is going to be the significant attendance dip… which is to say it was only SORT OF bigger than all the other cons in the area, rather than WAAAAY bigger. Considering what the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, I’m sure plenty of people can volunteer all sorts of horror stories that happened to them that I just wasn’t there to see… but that’s the thing: that crap happens at every con. A disproportionate number of Katuscons, however,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If we’d gone this entire update without an appearance by the Ichibancon kids, I seriously think someone would have showed up at my house to complain in person. Not that there isn’t plenty of stuff on this page to complain[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve essentially made this joke once already, but it bears repeating. All it takes is one dude with a camera to reduce an entire building to gridlock (so, really, it’s not the cosplayers who are the problem, it’s the shutterbugs)
If sure you’ll be able to find all sorts of stories about crazy things going on in front of the convention. For whatever reason, attendance was WAAAAAAY up this year, and more people results in more weirdness. But you know[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, I had stuff for sale in Artists Alley this year, an Animazement first. That’s not to say that I PERSONALLY was in AA that much, but my stuff sure was. Still, I did mind the table in the early[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Katsucon just doesn’t have good luck with the other events it brushes up against. We won’t bring up LAST year’s unhappiness here, but there’s plenty of crap from THIS year. Basically, a whole bunch of pharmacists were having a convention[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…