Bramble Vine Comics

: STAPLE! '08 photo gallery :

I spent this past weekend down in Austin, Texas selling my comics at the independent comic convention STAPLE! and it was a blast. The folks in Austin really came willing to buy. I sold a ton of books and met a lot of really cool artists while I was down there.

I was happy to see that the preview book I had printed up for my upcoming series, Gadgeteria, was going over well. I pushed the mini comic into a lot of hands and people seemed really interested in the premise. Matthew Warlick is this amazing local artist who is coloring the cover of Gadgeteria #1 for me and he was there too with the whole Space-Gun Studios crew. With us, Scott Kurtz and Chris Straub Dallas was definitely representing at the show.

I had something new on hand during the con that haven't tried before, vinyl figures. I've been seeing more and more of these amazing independently produced vinyl toys and always thought the whole scene was cool, so when I saw that my local comic shop was selling blank versions of them I decided to try something different. I took a few blank Munny toys and a sharpie pen and went to work creating these "Bramblekins Sketch Toys". The effect was very cool. You can see more photos of the toys in my STAPLE! '08 photo gallery. The sketch toys generated a lot of attention for me, so I'm going to keep bringing them to future cons.

All in all it was a great show. I'll certainly be back next year, although next time I won't try to drive down and back in the same day. The trip back to Dallas after an exhausting day of selling comics was brutal. Many gallons of coffee got me through it, but just barley. Next year I'm getting a hotel room.

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