I’m finally recuperated enough to write my SPX con-report, so here ’tis.
SPX has always been my favorite show, and this year was no exception. Paul and I and Jim Ottaviani all flew down early Friday morning and arrived just in time to set up for the show. Sales were brisk and the floor was crowded. I rather like the new hotel, as we have the benefit of all being in one big ballroom, and there’s also this really nice patio where I was able to sit and have lunch with Rich Watson on Saturday.
There’re some great restaurants nearby — we sampled two, the Vegetable Garden and a nearby Chinese Buffet. Both were outstanding, and the buffet was so good that we went back a second time.
Carla Speed McNeil quite kindly put us up at her house, ferried us back and forth, and fed us breakfast every morning while we played with her kids. It was a real treat to get to just hang out together for a while, without a table between us, or having to shout across a roomful of people. Thanks again, Carla. You rock.
Denise Sudell was also kind enough to run us to the airport at the end of the show, so we didn’t have to Metro it back for an hour and a half. Yay! Thanks to you too, Denise — and if you’re reading this, I have some great pix of you and Henry to share, but your email bounced. So write me!
The rest of the show would take a really long time to write out, so I’ll just let the pictures do the talkin’. Yay, SPX!
Don’t know if this will work since I’m not a registered user, but I stopped by your table at SPX. Vogelein was my favorite find this year (last year was Finder). I’d also like to thank you for your web site, particularly since I’m planning to produce a mini or two for next year’s SPX. My daughter wants to do one also (she’s 8), and I’m going to encourage her however I can.
I do think it’s cool how the research you’ve done informs Vogelein but doesn’t overwhelm the story. It’s a nice job at providing real depth without getting in the way of the narrative.
— Scott McDaniel
Yay! Wow, Scott — considering how much good stuff was at SPX this year, that’s a really high compliment. I sure hope your daughter makes herself some minicomics — they’re really the way to go, and I’d love to see them when she gets them done. And yours too, of course. 😉
Thanks for the kind words, I really do appreciate them.
Janer
Oh, one other thing from our quick conversation at SPX. I mentioned fonts based on your own handwriting and I believe you said you were interested how those are done. Here are a couple of web sites through which you can do that:
http://www.fontifier.com/ ($9)
http://www.vletter.com/products.htm ($150, but full y connected cursive)
http://www.myfirstfont.com/ (Do it yourself, but you need to get Font Creator software for either $79 or $149)
These are a few of what came up when I googled “handwriting fonts own”. I haven’t tried any of them yet, but I plan to. I don’t know if I want to spend a lot to get my own font creation software, but in cases where you want to simulate different speaking patterns, accents, etc. it might be nice to have.
Yay! I was really hoping you’d get in touch with me about this. I would really like to make some personal fonts for the new Seekrit Project.