I started looking around for local comic conventions and discovered there is just one held in my town every year.

Just one.

I’m not too suprised really – Australia doesn’t have the population of the U.S. or most European cities, but we have a ton of space, so we’re all spread really thinly over the place. It makes conventions really hard to organise, and the ones that are around are just once a year events.

I was thinking of having a booth at the next convention to showcase Plant-Man and the upcoming second comic (as well as some other nifty things) but really, what’s the use of having a booth if there’s nothing to sell? So then I started looking into the logistics of putting together a Plant-Man book, and figured that, if the convention is in April ’09, I’d need to have the books safely in my hands by February ’09. Of course to hit that date I’d need to send the book proofs off to the printers by December ’08, which means that I’d really need to have the source material (original comics + updated commentaries + brand new material + rare Plant-Man comics that never saw the light of the web…it’s quite a package!) ready by September ’08 at the latest…and whoa, we’re almost there already!

And it’s early days yet for this comic – I still need everyone who is reading this to spread the word! So I decided to just use the event to hand out flyers, meet some other comic artists and generally take it easy.

Oh well, maybe the April 2010 convention, eh?

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