I know that it’s been a week since the New England Webcomics Weekend, and that most people already have their Con Reports up, but man… It’s taken me this long just to process all of the amazing things that happened last weekend!
For starters, unlike the invited guests, I didn’t have a table to man, so I was free to wander the convention and chat with everyone at my leisure – an opportunity us busy artists rarely get during the hustle and bustle of a regular convention! (Usually, any chance we get to chat with our peers is crammed into the few hours in between the end of that day’s convention and the moment where we collapse wherever we happen to be out of sheer exhaustion.) This meant that I got to chat with nearly everyone – fan and artist alike – which was no mean feat given the sheer number of people who turned out!
And the one thing that everyone had in common was the sense that this was something amazing happening around them… The start of something that people would be talking about for years! This was most evident in the random acts of creativity that sprang up everywhere. Whether it was the doodles in the Infinite Canvas room, or the impromptu sketching circles that happened wherever a few people happened
to be sitting together, everyone involved was just very excited to be a part of it.
I was also so very pleased to meet a bunch of the people whose comics I’ve been reading for years. It was an honor and a pleasure to chat with all of you, and I wish that the convention could have gone on for weeks, so that we could have had the chance to sit down, break out the pencils and paper, and jam. Some of you, I’ll see again this weekend at Emerald City. To those who I won’t, I will see you at next year’s NEWW!!
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Meredith, thank you a million times over for putting this together. I know coordinating artists is worse than herding directionally-challenged cats, but somehow you managed it! 
Thanks also to my buddy, Luke Foster, who not only picked me up from the airport, but hung out with me all weekend and put up with my manic smile and endlessly repeated squeals of “this is so AWESOME!!”. Huge thanks to the kind gamer geeks who adopted me at the end of the con, took me home, fed me, and let me discover my inner drummer on their Rock Band set. (Quinby, you and your friends are the bestest ever!) Dudley, thanks for drinking my gimlet and being endlessly amusing. The Michelle and Natalie Show – hope to run into you two again soon!
Hunter Rose Says:
I didn’t realise it until after NEWW was open, but a new friend said you were sitting at our table in the game room. were you the one drawing the stone sheep while we played Settlers of Catan? I was the guy with the big white tub of games.
I instantly recognised your name (and the strip) when Matt mentioned that you were there. Had I known you were there, I would have happily said “Thank You” for your wonderful comic.
Natalie Says:
Hey sweety! I’ve caught up on your comic already, gobbled it up in a day or so.
I’m SO HAPPY to have spent time with you! You are an absolutely amazing artist and an even better person. I’ll have to do my best to visit you whenever I swing your way. Anyway, you’ve got my number, and now you’ve also got my e-mail address. Don’t loose touch, and hey–add me to facebook if you get a chance!
Love,
Natalie
Quinn Says:
You’re welcome, dearling. Everyone here loved meeting you, and we were more than happy to have you. If you come back for Connecticon, let us know! (or, really if you’re just in the area.)
Dudley Says:
Hey, anybody who gives me a free drink is number one in my heart! Can’t wait until next year!
Sparkus-Clark Says:
HOLY CRAP!! There was a kick-as shin-dig in Mass? And you were there? dangitdangitdangitdangitdangitdangit!
well there’s always next year.
-SC
gnrrrg Says:
Awwww… I just noticed the Origins isn’t on your list of events to attend.
Axi5 Says:
Yeah…
It took me this long to figure out that the link I was using brought me to the page I was on, not the latest page.
Great comic. Thank you.
sardonicus Says:
Arrrgh. I saw you sitting on the bench there and thought you looked familiar, chalked it up to you looking a lot like Michaela Conlin (angela from Bones… http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0174819/) should have gone with my gut instinct and asked where I recognized you from so I could have gotten a sketch in my “big book o’people I read daily (or what passes for daily as far as updates go.)
thatguytom Says:
How about a trip to DragonCon?