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Important => Calendar Event Discussion => Topic started by: Infamous as Elle! on January 22, 2009, 07:49:00 PM
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Can he please please please come to Pittsburgh Comicon on September 11-13th 2009?
It's going to be in a brand new, bigger convention center and there are lots of cool people showing up there besides myself.
Great place to showcase the graphic novels! We have David Prowse even....and candy!
(Sheesh, I am suckin' with the proper dates for stuff....big time.)
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Maybe, if enough people jump on board with this idea, Jim might see it, and be interested. It's worth a try, so I'll throw in my vote for him appearing at this con!
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Actually, I was thinking of asking Renee, who runs the con, if she'd send out an invite to him.
I think he'd have a really good time. It's a pretty relaxed convention. People sit around and chat with each other, there are hardly ever lines but enough of a flow of people to make it totally worth it.
The biggest line I've seen is for Broadsword Comics, Jim Balent's booth. If JB (hmm, initials very similar) thinks signing ten or eleven books from one person is bad, poor Balent will stand there for like eight hours straight and sign entire boxes of comics that people bring. One person brought in a wheely cart full of comics. Jim must have had hand cramps at the end but I admire him for standing there for that many hours without sitting down.
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You should definitely try to get her to send an invite to him.
Smaller cons like that are the best. The more personal a con can feel, the more likely it is that people will want to go. Of course, this leads to a more crowded con, years down the road, but that's the nature of the beast.
Oh man, I feel bad for that guy. I would hate to stand for so long, and sign so many things. Okay, maybe not the latter, really. It seems like that would be the best thing for an author/artist, to have someone bring in that many things, even all at once. Knowing that someone had collected that much, and wanted it all signed, seems like it would mean a lot. So, rewarding, probably worth the hand cramps. (Don't like thinking of those, though.)
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I couldn't move my hands for several days after I did drawings of kids in Hogwart's uniforms for the midnight release of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. I wasn't paid nearly enough for that and worse, they didn't stop the line so there was a line of parents and kids literally to the back wall of the building the size of a Super Walmart (I was at the very front by the door). Even more daunting was the fact that some of these "families" suddenly had eight to ten kids each, who all wanted drawings.
The midnight release was supposed to end at 1am but I ended up staying there until 4 in the morning. Four hours straight of drawing non-stop.
However, Pittsburgh isn't as small as people think. The Expo is actually pretty darned big but I think it feels so much more intimate because of all the independent people. We all hang out and goof off while drawing, writing and signing things.
I miss it and can't wait to get back. My drawings did really well there. Especially the ones of my cats.
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I think Pittsburgh Comicon had some Farscape cast members last year if memory serves. Gigi Edgley and Wayne Pygram, wasn't it? I live a half hour away, but got my dates screwed up and missed the call to Gigi Worship.
*snuffle*
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Yes, I believe so. The last time I went to Pittsburgh, Ernie Hudson was there from Ghostbusters.....lot's of Star Wars folks, wrestlers. Neil Gaiman was supposed to come a few years ago but ended up having to cancel at the last moment. Frank Miller has been to it though and a few other big names but I'm having trouble braining right now.
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This would actually be a con I can get to. I am only 2 hours away! I definitely put in a vote to have Jim attend, and I will do anything I can to help! Just ask! Really! Honest! I will even show up in full armor and serve as his personal bodyguard! Anyone messes with or annoys him and Ogre will SPLAT!!!!!
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More I can see if the Local SCA would be able to put on a Demo. Heavy combat, bardic (singing, storytelling), an arts and sciences display, classes. I have done these several times so it would not be too hard to arrange as long as the Con is willing.
And definitely a costume contest. There has to be a costume contest.
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Well I shot off a message to the Con to see if they are interested in inviting Jim and any of the other offers I have just made. Keep your fingers crossed. If you have not written to them to ask, please do so!
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Okay I have just heard back from Pittsburg ComiCon and they would love to have Jim as a guest. But they do not know how to contact him. Priscellie? Mickey? Can anyone help on this level?
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Got the info and passed it on to the Con. Keep your fingers crossed!
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Torv! You ROCK!!!!
There is definitely a costume contest every year. I remember when Mike Oemig was there for Powers and Hammer of The Gods, a whole troupe showed up in Viking armor. It was pretty badass.
I think Jim would enjoy it immensely and it'll be a shiny new facility for us all to wander around at!
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Oh and maybe Renee would even change the convention guest food over to Burger King for JB.
This is the one thing I really love about that convention. Constantly people with carts walking around with sodas for guests and then around lunch time, someone goes out to a local fast food place and buys burgers and chicken sandwiches. You never go hungry or thirsty there.
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Got the info and passed it on to the Con. Keep your fingers crossed!
That would be a ComicCon I'd blow some vacation days for. Hopefully, his schedule and inclinations will make it so. I'd better pretend not to be from around here though...we want to give him more reasons to come here, not less.
Baltimore. I'm from Baltimore. Yeah, Baltimore. That's the ticket.
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Why would anyone even want to pretend to be from Baltimore? ;D
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Heh, maybe at some point when Jim is looking to relax in a more anachronistic setting, we can all try to convince him that he needs to go to Pennsic.
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Once again I agree! I only live an hour's drive from there and merchant at that event each year.
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Really? What do you vend?
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I sell hardened leather armor and my Viking Home Companion CDs.
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Viking Home Companion CD's! LOL That sounds awesome.
Now for the potentially cringe worthy part. Do you know Ashton? He had a booth there called Nyghtcraft Leather....
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It doesn't ring a bell. But I don't get a lot of time to wander out. I am pretty much stuck at my tables. I share space in the Pillaged Village, but I am a one man shop and can't afford to hire anyone to work my tables with me. Also I have only been doing Pennsic for the last 2 years. Before that I lived too far away.
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Aww that's too bad. You need to get out from behind the table more! Find a friend to watch for a few hours and then buy them lunch.
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I get to run around a little, but you are right. I spend most of my time at the table or performing my Viking Home Companion Stories. One show a day in front of my booth. And then there are the free samples I tell when I run into someone who has never heard the stories before. I have a lot of fun with those. I am hoping to release a Viking Home Companion Christmas album this year. Mostly it depends on if I can mangle enough Christmas carols and have the money to get into the studio before Pennsic. I already have several on the other CDs.
Deck the Halls with Skulls of Saxons
Three Viking ships came sailing in
I'm Beginning to see a lot of Carnage
God Save us from the Vikings
I wrote two new ones recently
I'm Going Viking For Christmas
Here the Vikings Come Again
I need to write about 5 to 7 more to have a good sized album I think. And I am working on two new stories, Berzerks Are Not Stupid, and The All Scandinavia Berzerker Games (Berzerk Olympics)
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LOL I so want a CD now! I'll have to look for you when Pennsic comes closer!
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I'd fly in from Houston if Jim appears as it seems like an interesting con. However, seems unlikely since he has an appearance scheduled the next month.
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Plus, Jim generally schedules appearances a year or two in advance. :D
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Not happening until September 11, 12 and 13th of this year so he still might be able to come. I checked the calendar and it looks like nothing else is there.
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Plus, Jim generally schedules appearances a year or two in advance. :D
Oh well, one can always dream.
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Viking Home Companion CD's! LOL That sounds awesome.
They're good stuff. I haven't finished listening to them yet, but that's only because I found out it's pointless to try to listen to them while doing something else - the work suffers. :D
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LOL I so want a CD now! I'll have to look for you when Pennsic comes closer!
You can always just order them from me.
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Okay if I can get a room set aside for us for an hour or so, who all would be interested in coming to the Con? We could do a mini-Butchercon.
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Ill be there I live in Pitt.
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Now I need to get home to Pittsburgh in September...
Hm....
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I'd totally be down for that!
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Okay if I can get a room set aside for us for an hour or so, who all would be interested in coming to the Con? We could do a mini-Butchercon.
I'm also from Pittsburgh, so count me in. Also count me in on anything we can do to get Jim to the con. I'll send emails, snailmails, make phonecalls, kidnap people and tickle them till they agree to our demands, anything!
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Oooh, Comicon! I live in the 'burgh and would LOVE to see Jim there! Especially since I was counting on meeting him at Moonlight Rising and that collapsed (see, Jim, it doesn't always pay to schedule something a year in advance!)
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I'm working for the convention this year JB would be a great addition remember we have Stan Lee this year add Jim and we'll be packed
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If Jim were to come to the ComicCon, I would so be there. And even if he can't, I think the idea of a mini-ButcherCon is a great idea! How much are the tickets?
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Hey guys, I realize the topic is a bit old and I may have to start a new thread, but I just wanted to let you all know that the Pittsburgh Comicon has been in contact with Jim's agent. It seems that the earliest he would be available is 2012. However, we are interested in having him as a guest. Also, for those that got the comic mini-series adaptation of Storm Front, or the collections, the editor of the books, David Lawrence, will be at the show. Perhaps, if he is given enough of a request, he can convince his company to bring Jim in for the April 2010 show.
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I appreciate and share the enthusiasm of seeing JB in Pittsburgh Sooner rather than Later, but if he's already got a commitment, it's not a matter of choice or convincing. And if he's got the time scheduled as Jim Time, best let him have some of that undisturbed. I'm sure we'd be pretty cheesed off if we were planning on attending an event with him, but someone else talked him into hitting theirs. Best to stick with the "Proper Channels" so as not to pester the Revered Author.
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I appreciate and share the enthusiasm of seeing JB in Pittsburgh Sooner rather than Later, but if he's already got a commitment, it's not a matter of choice or convincing. And if he's got the time scheduled as Jim Time, best let him have some of that undisturbed. I'm sure we'd be pretty cheesed off if we were planning on attending an event with him, but someone else talked him into hitting theirs. Best to stick with the "Proper Channels" so as not to pester the Revered Author.
All true.
... yet I still find the time to send him the occasional open e-mail calling him a torturing bastard. :D
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... yet I still find the time to send him the occasional open e-mail calling him a torturing bastard. :D
Well, that's because he is. :D