I really love Chicago. I didn’t do as well at this show as I’d hoped, and it was rife with the sorts of problems a first-year show might be expected to have (fortunately most of them invisible on the attendees’ end). But it will probably be an excuse for me to go to Chicago next year, and the convention will probably go much better next year.

Anyway I stayed with Spike and Matt and their ugly dog, along with Dave and Abby and Kel.

Her handsome apartment-

And the show floor, with everyone setting up on Friday…

Oh, it’s one of THOSE conventions:

I was in the Webcomics Pavilion area, which occupied three little aisles towards the back. Very cool that particular attention is being given to webcomics, though I got the sense that we missed out on a lot of traffic because we were all together in one area, and off towards the edge of the floor.

My half-table all set up for the first day:

I shared it with Dave Shabet. I was going to share it with Dave McGuire but he got sick and could not make it! He is feeling better now though. So many Daves.

Saw Erika!

Met KC! And we enacted a comic book trade-

Across the way were Chris and another David. I read a whole bunch of Chris’ comic the Book of Biff during the convention, and good lord but it is hilarious.

And here’s a Frank and a Becky, who recently released a very handsome book called Tigerbuttah. They shared a table with Spike who had her new fourth book of Templar, Arizona (I got caught up on Templar on the flight home and will say again that it is one of my favorite things being published online right now. You should really read it).

And hangout times.

Here’s some handsome originals Dave drew during the show-

Some drawings for some nice people-

And at the end we all got tattoos.