I’ve never been to a Comic Con before, i’ve seen youtube clips and heard the buzz about them, but this year was the first time i’ve ever attended one. All thanks to Kapow! 9th -10th April 2011 . Set in the heart of North London – I bought my ticket months in advance and was treated to a wealth of costumes, independent artists, signings and a great atmosphere.
I only managed to attend one panel, and although it was a wonderful experience, I was let down by the endless queuing and regular disappointment of not getting in to an event. Regardless of spending huge amounts of time in the queue. Twitter kept me amused and there were lots of new friends made.
I will definitely be going next year.
I went armed with my Fuji W3 – 3D camera and have uploaded a large amount of pics to flickr already.
Having already started the upload process of the images to flickr on the Saturday night of this 2 day Con, I noticed a HUGE amount of interest in it from the states, hence, my flickr view stats spiked from the usual 100’s/day into a 6k+/day over the period of the conference! Which is mind-blowing!
Following the twitter hashtags and streams for the event is a mist for me and on the morning of sthe second day I offered @johnfreeman_dtb to use my pics from flickr in his blog post:
http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2011/04/kapow-breaks-world-recors-announces.html
Here were the main highlights of the con for me:
Indie Releases
Independent Comic book artists with innovative use of music and Eternal Descent Volume 1
Eternal Descent Booth at Kapow! Marshall Amps and ESP Guitars
Artists
Artist Destiny Blue was offering Chibi sketches, and I loved the idea of having a little crazy character of myself sketched, I asked her if she would mind doing a larger version and one in colour, so she went ahead and took some pictures of me as a reference and promised to post it on later once completed. I am in love with the result 
Chibi sketch of Ket by Destiny Blue
Signings
I queued for hours to get my copy of Batman: The Killing Joke (Deluxe Edition)
Brian Bolland Signing my copy of Batman The Killing Joke
Kid getting his book signing
Cosplay
Of course there were an insane number of cosplayers out in force and made the day much more interesting: This next image was shot on my 3D camera and processed to be seen with Red/Cyan glasses.
Black Cat + Wormwood
Joker and Harley Quinn
Thoroughly enjoyable day out, except for one american artist who acted like a egomaniacal jerk when I said hello and complemented him on his artwork. Hey just a tiny drop in the ocean compared to all the awesome, cool and fun people I met that day. Roll on next year.
