WizardWorld TX

I didn’t have too many expectations for WizardWorld Texas going in, but it turned out to be a great road trip and one of the most fun convention experiences to date. The crowd seemed even smaller this year, but there was a much more positive buzz around the place than I’d experienced over the last two years. From talking to a few retailer friends, sales were up, and so was traffic in the Artist’s Alley area. At least one friend had sold all his sample books he’d bought with him by the middle of Saturday afternoon.

I’ll be writing up a more detailed article on the convention for Comicopia at some point, but personal highlights included:

– The road trip – four hours each way with four writers constantly bouncing story ideas off each other.
– Getting to meet a few more artists whose work I admired, and discovering a few who I hadn’t been aware of before.
– Getting invited to the DC Comics dinner and getting to hear some behind the scenes stuff and appreciate why certain decisions were made.
– The moment when the metaphorical light bulb went off above every writers’ head at the the dinner table in response to something DC’s executive editor Dan DiDio said about writing iconic comics characters.
– Seeing Matt Sturge’s face when we discovered a radio controlled K-9, and mine when he offered to buy me a radio-controlled Dalek.
– Dan Wickline’s work-shop on writing licensed characters.
– The moment at the end of the road trip when we realized that we needed to keep the creative energy flowing.

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