{"id":800,"date":"2016-08-23T04:43:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T08:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=800"},"modified":"2016-11-09T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T05:02:12","slug":"dot-mega-minicast-boston-comic-con-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2016\/08\/23\/dot-mega-minicast-boston-comic-con-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT (Mega) Minicast – Boston Comic Con 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to Boston Comic Con this year thinking I’d walk around and talk to a few artists for three or four minutes and make a nice, snug little minicast. My plans changed quickly. There were so many great artists and writers, and people selling strange and wonderful work, that I wound up with about an hour or interview material. I learned a lot from these folks about the comics industry – what independent and self-published authors are up against, what an ambitious author can get done in three weeks sleeping just three hours a day, how cons can be a place where artists and writers find each other, and how the very nature of comic cons have changed drastically in a short time. David Petersen, creator of Mouseguard<\/a>, put it in perspective when he said that comic cons used to be places to find the hard-to-find thing. Now you can find those things on comic book shop Web sites or EBay, so now the creators are the thing people are seeking out (well, that and a throng of incredibly well-designed and\/or completely inappropriate costumes). <\/p>\n

Petersen was first up, followed by doll-maker Jessica of Mystic Asylum<\/a>, publisher and creator Tyler James of Comix Tribe<\/a>, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl<\/em><\/a> and Archie<\/em><\/a> artist Erica Henderson<\/a>, author and creator of the Seven Forges<\/em> book series James A. Moore<\/a>, elf-ear maker Lindsay of The Elven Caravan<\/a>, artist and co-creator of Shutter<\/em><\/a> Leila del Duca<\/a>, artist and novelist Drew Blank<\/a>, and one half of Sun Bros Studios<\/a> Brad Sun. <\/p>\n

It was amusing and enlightening talking to these folks, and I now have an even longer reading list to contend with. Enjoy the conversations, and support the work of these artists and writers! <\/p>\n