Next weekend is Stumptown Comics Fest here in Portland — and as I’ve mentioned before, Lukas and I are guests of the festival, alongside people like Eric Powell, Rick Remender, Brandon Graham, Nate Simpson, Carla Speed McNeil and a bunch of others!
The Fest runs 10am-6pm Saturday, April 17 and noon to 6pm on Sunday the 17th. It’s $7/day and $12/weekend, and this year it’s at the in Exhibit Hall A (at the north end of the building, near the MAX). Lukas and I are going to be at table E-15, and we’ll be selling Witch Doctor: First Incision 2010, the rewritten, redrawn version of the first comic we ever brought to Stumptown. We’re also featured in a couple of panels on Sunday:
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4:00-4:45pm Horror Comics Introspective (Room A105) — Dark Horse Comics Editors Scott Allie (Hellboy) and Shawna Gore (Creepy Archives, The Devil’s Footprints) lead an hour-long discussion of Horror comics and their influences. With “Witch Doctor” writer Brandon Seifert, and other special surprise guests!
5:00-5:45pm Sneaking Into Comics (Room A104) — How do you get into the comics industry? Come learn the secrets from moderators Brandon Seifert and Lukas Ketner (writer and artist of Witch Doctor, coming out this summer from Robert Kirkman’s imprint of Image Comics); Dark Horse submissions editor John Schork; “Dear Dracula” and Marvel Comics writer Joshua Williamson; Nate Simpson, artist and writer of the much-talked-about “Nonplayer”; and editor, writer and former Image Comics PR guy Joe Keatinge.
I’m especially excited about the “Sneaking Into Comics” panel, because that one’s sort of my baby. ”Sneaking into comics” is our friend Joshua Williamson’s term for the gradual process most professionals go through on their way into the industry, and Lukas and I always found it really helpful to think of things in those terms when we were struggling to get our book picked up. I’m really excited to get the chance to talk about the stuff we learned in the three years preceding us signing with Skybound/Image, and the roster of guests on the panel is great. (I’m also very excited to be on a panel with the “surprise guests” on the horror panel, but I don’t know if I can tell you who they are yet.)