Mid Ohio Kick Off Party at Packrat Comics

Mid-Ohio Con is landing in Columbus this Saturday and Sunday, but the fun begins on FRIDAY at Packrat Comics in Hilliard! 


Beginning at 1pm, comic artist Steve Scott will be at Packrat signing comics. His most recent work includes Batman prior to the DC relaunch, X-Men Forever, Wolverine and JLA! He'll be here all afternoon to sign your copy of Batman 713...the issue that shows the second location of Packrat in Gotham City next to the Wayne Foundation!

Then, at 7pm the annual turkey dinner will be served to get the Mid Ohio Kick Off Party in full swing! There's free transportation to and from the convention center, plenty of free food and drinks, and an exclusive showing of our Mid Ohio Comic Con Publishing Contest comic book winners in their brand new art gallery. There's also the charity comic book Texas hold `em poker tournament, live music with disco lights & a fog machine.  So come to Packrat Comics and join the fun!


Shuttle Service provided by Packrat Comics:  Starting at 6:30pm and every 30 minutes thereafter there will be a shuttle to pick up party goers at 400 High Street in front of the Columbus Convention Center on the corner of Goodale and High.   RSVP on the Facebook Event to reserve space on the Packrat Comics Kick Off Party Shuttle.

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OH, Comics Digs in the Dirt

Back Porch Comics proudly announces the publication of Oh,Comics! #18 “Earth.”

According to publisher/editor Bob Corby's press release, this issue of OH, COMICS features 76 "salt-of-the-earth pages containing 18 rock-solid strips by 13 dirty creators!" Sunday Comix regulars Max Ink, Jonathon Riddle, Ray Tomczak, Michael Carroll, Brent Riches, Matt Wyatt and Bob Corby (of course) comprise over half of the list of creators; and Sue Lense (another of our illustrious crew) not only provided her Onion City comics for an added taste of humor to the book but also illustrated the "down-to-Earth" cover.

The anthology will be available for sale (at $3.50, it’s dirt cheap!) at the Back Porch table at the Mid-Ohio Con on October 3 and 4, 2009. The book will also be available to purchase on-line at via the Back Porch Comics website on October 5. 2009.

Chicks Dig The Shirt

Back at Mid-Ohio Con last month, I picked up the Barack Obama T-shirt pictured above, featuring an image painted by noted comics artist Alex Ross, best known for his work on Marvels and Kingdom Come. As I said in my last post, I wasn't quite the true believer that I am now, but a cool T-shirt is a cool T-shirt when all is said and done.

I am, in fact, wearing said shirt as I write this, and, it should go without saying, wore it to the rally on Sunday. I figured my chances of getting a bus after the event were about zero, and if I did it would be unbearably crowded, so I set out to walk toward Clintonville. Along the way, I noticed a couple women, and really good looking ones, giving me, as the saying goes, "the eye." Of course, I knew what was going on here. It wasn't me; a tall skinny dork with broken glasses, a football shaped head, a big nose and bad teeth; that caught their eye. The truth is that, as the headline says, chicks dig the shirt.

I wonder if that will still be the case after the election. I guess that depends on the outcome. All the reaction my Michael Dukakis T-shirt gets is pointing and laughing.

Video Underground: Behind the Counter at MOC

I just got an email from Richard Katterjohn of Video Underground/ Behind the Counter and they want to feature Sunday Comix in some of their upcoming video podcasts about comics. They have six videos from their time at last weekend's Mid-Ohio Con (you can go to their home page or their ComicSpace gallery page or their YouTube page and see what what it's all about). It looks like they've been doing this since 2003 with 133+ podcasts and counting (2003, incidentally, is when this little group began).

If you read this blog regularly, you'll find out how things develop as they happen (more or less).

Related Recap Round-Up

Chuck Moore over at Comic Related has put together a phenomenal amount of coverage on last weekend's Mid Ohio Con, both in print (so to speak) and audio. A couple of the Related Recap Podcasts feature Sunday Comix members (Sean Forney, Bob Corby and Max Ink) and many other episodes feature various Ohio comic book creators (Thom Zahler, Sean McKeever, Jay Fife, Wes Molebash, Eric Adams, Johanna Estep to name a few). There are seven RR MOC podcasts in all with over seven hours worth of interviews! You can listen to them online or download them via iTunes.

MOC Report LinkRound-Up (part 2)

Here are some more links from MOC exibitors (starting off with Sunday Comix's very own M.A.D.):

http://symphonyoftheuniverse.blogspot.com/2008/10/mid-ohio-con-report.html

http://caitlyn1701.blogspot.com/2008/10/post-mid-ohio-con-report.html

http://americaawry.blogspot.com/2008/10/mid-ohio-con-2008.html

http://www.lurid.com/blog/archives/448

That last one is by Wayne Alan Harold and features some photos of P. Craig Russell.

Oh! And how can I forget the official MOC Blog? Oy. I'm tired.

MOC Report LinkRound-Up

In addition to Comic Related's great comprehensive coverage of the show, here are a few links from blogs I've found on the internets with people's personal experiences about this year's Mid-Ohio-Con:

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_10_05.html#015965

http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2008/10/mid-ohio-con-report.html

http://www.scottstoryillustrator.com/johnnysaturn/?p=898

http://matttauber.blogspot.com/2008/10/mid-ohio-con-report.html

http://www.ferretpress.com/weblog/2008/10/bankies-2008-mid-ohio-con-awards.htm

(I'm busy trying to work on my Blink comic strip, but feel it's important to disseminate this info.)

Thanks for a great Mid-Ohio-Con

Just a quick note of thanks to everyone who showed up at the Con and helped to make it a wonderful show. I hope to get around to writing a more detailed post on my website and here about the whole weekend. Chuck Moore (of Comic Related) posted some photos of the show. If you don’t know Comic Related, get to know it.

Mid Ohio Con (Part One)

Just a quick few links to share with you what's gone on so far at this year's MOC. Comics Related has a load of coverage at their site with a podcast and page of photos and Max Ink wrote up a brief post about his own personal experiences on Saturday.