Hey, folks, I have to say sorry for Monday’s unleashed rant. I have to admit that the Los Angeles Rock’N Comic Con was an unmitigated disaster. It was the perfect lesson in how to mismanage and misorganise everything, whilst burning every single bridge with every local artist, talent and comic vendor in the Southern California area.
It was a ham-fisted blunder of epic proportions, and I felt so bad about the whole event that I even said sorry to Stan Lee via Twitter message, even though I was just a humble artist, amongst other unhappy artists in the convention’s poorly set up Artists Alley.
I would post pictures of how empty the event was during the whole weekend, but its just too depressing. I was expecting to see some vendors actually hanging themselves from the scaffolding.
I sincerely hope the idiots who set up this con never have the chance to ever shame the idea and concept of a comic convention ever again.
They did bring together a group of talented local artists into one building, and then proceeded to make a complete botch-up of the entire show. But, all us artists spoke and we laid down some ideas of getting together at a better event.
I made new friends and shared new ideas. For one brief glimmering moment I felt welcomed into a bigger world. It was the only light in a sea of out of control chaos and mess.
To my fellow artists who suffered and braved through the Los Angeles (Not) Rock’N Comic Con, I look forward to standing with you in the trenches of better comic conventions and march onwards to greater glories, and leave this sad episode behind us, to only look back at, during times when we need a good laugh.
To Mat Nastos, Shawn Granger, Gerimi Burleigh, Donna Letterese, and all the other wonderful artists, I say a huge and heart-felt thank you for your shining and fun-filled company. I look forward to future cons with you all.
And, as to the “organisers” of Los Angeles Rock’N Comic-Con all I can say is “Don’t give up your day jobs, as you certainly couldn’t organise even a piss-up in a brewery!”
