I had the great pleasure to go to S.P.A.C.E. with Michael Marcus last weekend- March 19-20th In Columbus, Ohio. S.P.A.C.E. is a well known Indy comics cartooning convention that sports a unique talent of individual creators, comic artists, and publishers. Some stuff was rather rough and some stuff was beautifully well done. It was kind of all over the place as far as quality and variety of businesses and many of the attendees are fans in general. I sat at the booth with Michael Marcus and got to see how he worked the crowd. He featured H.I.M. (Hamtramck Idea Men) comics series IF-X, His games, Sudouko Tactics and his games pack(sorry forgot that name), and his well received and talked about Primer- "How to Publish Your Comic Without Losing Your Shirt". -I even bought a copy of that. It appeared that Michael knew the crowd and audience of the show and did not flinch in his sales game. I was especially impressed on the fact that Mr Marcus was able to publish his last two issues of IF-X using some of the tactics from his Primer... all in all it was a coup for Hamtramk Idea Men and Michael Marcus... Michael- when you get the chance send me some pics that you took from the con- oh here is one sketch I sold for $5....cheese
Close but not quite on this, Pat:
ReplyDelete1) The game pack you didn't know was "Gamer's Dozen"
2) It wasn't just the last two *issues*; it's everything since VOLUME TWO. That's about two years worth of books, give or take.
Unfortunately, although I brought my camera, I was too engrossed in the event to actually take pictures. The best part of this, Pat, is seeing the various creators' approach to creating their books, whether mini-comics, digest-size comics, or the more traditionally-sized ones. I always walk away from the show with new ideas, too. I hope you did, too.