Phoenix Comicon 2011 was a tremendous success across everything that I was involved in.
First Off, Thanks!
- To Harmony Nelson most of all, her booth work was unprecidented!
- To Bernard Schober, for again killing the Nerd Slam!
- To all our guests, be they for Anthology (Laura Lacanette, Russ Kazmierczak, Lauren Perry) or for Brick Cave Media (Kent Markwart, Heather Liebenow, Idena Thatcher, Melvin lambert. Mike Robinson, Joe Giunta, Brent Heffron, Sharon Skinner), you guys made for a fun and exciting weekend.
- Our unsung heroes included Joseph Nieves, who not only helped set up, but man the booth, and tear down, and Aura Nelson, who rode in on her pickup of salvation and took the entire booth home, and had it unloaded by the time we got there- THANK YOU BOTH!
From Opening Night, having Sacrifice show on Opening Night Thursday night was both an honor and a privilege, seriously. we put the estimate at 50 people in the room for the show, which was tremendous!
On Friday we hit the ground running… we had some VERY aggressive goals for our booth, and Harmony was non-stop in “gospelling” the Sacrifice message. It was pretty apparent obviously that we had learned from 2010 and were seeing Amazing results from the start. The 2 months of planning paid off in a HUGE way.
Also on Friday, we benefited from Sharon’s Burgeoning popularity in the Steampunk world as she put her designs into the booth, both for guns and clothes, and that drew people in to look around.
Friday Night was nothing short of Amazing. Thank you to Joe B. for believing in the slam after a great 2010, not just believing in it, but bumping it up to a room almost three times the size, and hooking it up with a PRIMO time. I’m guessing at our height we had 175 people in the room rated to 221… Laura, Lauren and The Kaz were stupendous
Klute leading the Nerd Poetry Army
The Kaz and Crew at the 2011 Nerd Slam
The crowd at one point of the 2011 Nerd Slam
Saturday, I lead a two hour game of Star Fleet Battles, which i won’t really talk about because I got wasted pretty early on. Hit a couple of sessions, picked up a tidbit or two to use on next projects.
Oh, I got Brent Heffron Arrested on Friday, too…
Brent Heffron in the Mandalorian Jail
The Mandalorians come and take Brent Heffron
I would say Sunday was a wind down day, but we hit the booth hard all day, and blew it up! AND I totally spaced, one of my highlights, with Wendy Trakes was announcing Mantecoza as the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film winner for the festival…
All in all, it was a great comicon!
