Carpe Chaos had a table at the biggest comic convention in the United States, and Wikipedia says it's the fourth largest in the world after Comiket (Japan), Angoulême International Comics Festival (France), and Lucca Comics and Games (Italy). It was just a small press table, but exhibiting at Comic Con has been one of our goals from the very beginning and I feel a huge sense of accomplishment that we finally made it!

From left to right: Anthony, Chuck, Eric, Helmut, and Rielatal Vihnress at our table on Preview night.

Depending on when you came to our table you could have met me, Eric, Anthony, Joe, and/or Leo. We split table responsibilities so we could also have time to explore the show. Most exhibitors were stuck at their tables all convention so we were really lucky to be able to share table responsibilities.

Printed Jailing Fortune comics!

To prepare for the show we printed a ton of Jailing Fortune comics (see image to the right) and the story looks spectacular in print. The colorful art style jumps out of the pages and leaving the books open on our table really drew people over. For all those that bought a copy, Chapter 3 is coming in August! We also handed out 1,000 Pieca Porg papercraft sheets (Pieca being one of the two main characters from Jailing Fortune) and we ran out about halfway through Saturday. You can still get a digital copy if you donate at least a dollar to our project, and for all those that have one and need help assembling it, just go here for step-by-step instructions with pictures!

The best part of the show for me was all of the people we met. Thanks to all of the fans that stopped by! I finally met Jason Brubaker of reMIND in person, which was great, and he helped me get some Carpe Chaos flyers onto the freebie table upstairs. The creators of Valkyrie Squadron, Spy6teen, and The Bean stopped by, and it's always great to see Scott from Diablo Productions whose table was right around the corner from us. I finally met Audrey from Graphicly, and our neighbors at the Hangboy table were really great too. I met a senior engineer at Adobe that works on Photoshop, which was super cool because we got to talk to him about our favorite parts of the software and work some feature requests into the conversation. He even bought two of our posters, including the Moments of Elation scroll. Thanks Chris!

We got to see some celebrities up-close, which is one of the cool things about Comic Con. Tonatzin Mondragon ("Lemuria") from the reality show Who Wants to Be a Superhero stopped by our table and I think we impressed her with our stuff! Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons and Futurama) stopped by the Hangboy table next to us and paid some really kind compliments to the artist Pao, which was also great to see.

Since the show we have been featured in at least two blogs so far. Here are links to the ones I know about: One, Two. I'll get some more photos up on our facebook page soon but until then I have one more for you:

-Jason

UPDATE: More photos are up on Facebook here (click).