Book Expo Australia

Oz Comic Con 2

Another bit of Story Arts Festival Coverage

This time the intrepid reporter is Yvonne Mes

Here

Also another report of the same event from Megan Daley .
Megan is a bit of a champion of local creators, and books ,
and a champion with cupcakes.

As you can see I've used one of Megan's photos of her cupcake sweatshop,-
just so you can see they don't appear out of thin air--
although I wish they did.

OzComic Con

So I took the trip down to Oz comic con in Adelaide-
I think I naively thought Oz comic con might have been more about comics or artist and writers and less about "stars" and "merchandise". Really it's the same as Supanova. As fate would have it- Supanova was happening on the Gold Coast(just up the road)- apparently a much bigger show.
Ah well- I hadn't tried Adelaide yet.
The trouble is - going  by plane costs a fortune luggagewise-
so its a much reduced presence in an attempt to reduce cost (and be able to cart it all around myself).

Thoughts:-
Adelaide city- initial impression people dress like the Ironborn with matching facial hair- but seem quite cheery- except of course the people in the inner city near the mall...(who dress and act like the Ironborn)

.the inner city seems to have a lot of educational institutions crammed in there- looks like the main industry to me.
Adelaide people apparently do not like to get out of bed. Street photo below is at 7.45 Sunday morning (Saturday was much the Same)- and as you can see it appears an alien virus
or zombie apocalypse has struck and the streets are deserted-
so if you are a visitor looking for breakfast or a zombie looking for a victim- you are out of luck.
Except Sunday morning I was in luck- on my walk from the Ibis hotel to the showgrounds I stumbled on "Delish Real Food" near an IGA on Gilbert St.. Best tasting eggs benedict I've had for a long time and a decent coffee- it restored my personality thank goodness.
(Actually the Ibis Hotel I stayed at was nice and new-and I really liked the layout of the room.)
I also liked walking to the show each morning (and back)- because they've got all the native trees there are lot of native parrots about- and different ones to where I live.
The show itself- it was quite spread out in  the space- I don't think it was a big show and definitely artist alley was small- someone said the Melbourne Supanova the week before was huge...
anyway.
 I was across from Emerson Ward- and down from Dark Oz and Doug Holgate.

TBC