SDCC: Day One

So it's been a good while since I've posted anything here. That seems to be the trend more often than not on my blog. I originally started this blog with the intent to record my pursuit of a writing career and even if no one reads this here blog, I should keep posting for myself.

I'll jump back into posting with a recap of San Diego Comic-Con. Leading up to the show was a bit stressful and exciting. Eric suggested to me to put together a sample of my writing and hand that out to as many editors that would give me the time of day. In order to pull that off Eric cranked out five more pages of "Jump" in a very short amount of time while our good friend Mikey helped letter those five new pages, the original three we used for the pitch and the four page Vega story we did.

We hit a snag during the lettering process when we couldn't find the originals for the first three sequential pages from the pitch and the cover. We had to resort to scanning in copies which did lower the clarity a bit, but not so much that they couldn't be used for my purposes. Mikey and I aren't professional letterers by any means, so figuring all that out was interesting to say the least.

We got everything finished by late Tuesday night and I bound everything together on Wednesday morning before I went into work. After work I packed my bags and Thursday morning I drove straight to the convention center.

Day one was rough. The first few people I spoke to told me that they weren't interested in any new writers. One even asked if I knew any artists instead. On top of the discouragement that came from uninterested editors came the problem of name badges. The names were printed pretty small this year and made name badge hunting much more difficult.

I found myself getting really close to people and trying my hardest to be discreet while I looked at their badges to see if the person I was spying on was indeed an editor. I got a few funny looks from people as they caught me in the act, but sometimes you have to risk embarrassment to get what you want. In my case, that would be a writing gig.

The names I did end up making out were not ones that I recognized, so I moved on. After Day One I was tired and a bit angry at myself for not doing better research on the names of editors, not to mention not really having the moxy to go up to more publishers blindly and simply ask for an editor to speak to.

I hoped Day Two would be different.