That’s Gina of Red String who is very pregnant. She was there when this happened last year at Akon. I ran into the man again this year and got the story on tape. I tried to put it into illustrated form, which I may post tomorrow, but the best parts of it didn’t come out as well as I’d like. Sometimes a good story doesn’t make a good comic and vice versa.
At some of the conventions the artist alley isn’t actually closed but the artists pack up their tables. Most artists take their things with them but I’m lazy and have just thrown a sheet over it in the past. My philosophy is that the Devil’s Panties merchandise is only valuable to people who like the comic. This is reinforced by this young man coming to me to admit that he sort of, accidentally, stole a book. He was drunk, found my table covered but unattended, and had taken a book. He was horrified the next morning to wake up clutching an unpaid for comic book. I loved the story so much, I tried to give him more merchandise. I’ve found that when you spend ten years giving a comic away for free, readers tend to be appreciative. The comic books value lies in it’s content and not in the object itself.
