Eric Adams

This weekend, I, Eric Adams, will be setting up at Chicago Comic Con (formerly known as Wizard World Chicago)! My table number is 5308 – I’m against the back wall.

For the first time in my history, I’ll be there on Thursday for preview night! So, I’ll be there for all four days. Long… excruciating… endless days. Fill them for me with purchases of my fine goods. Or, commission me to draw you a sketch. I’ll have my shiny new markers with me and with them I would be happy to output something not-so-shiny. Lackluster, if you will.

I will have the still somewhat new JESUS & TALKING BEAR SHIRTS, the one-shot 16-pager REFLECTION, and of course all the usual LW wares.

Sadly, LACKLUSTER WORLD #6 will NOT be available at Chicago Comic Con this weekend. I know I’ve told some that it would be printed and ready for consumption by this time and since I have no idea how far that word of mouth has spread, I thought it prudent to be clear. LW6 is NOT yet complete.

So, when will it be complete? In just a few weeks. I just couldn’t get it finished and printed in time for the show. I’ll be at Pittsburgh Comicon next month and while I’m not promising I’ll have it ready in time for that con, it does look likely that I will. Details, of course, forthcoming.

For anyone attending Chicago, I’ll be accepting pre-orders for LW6 and to make it worth your while, I’ll pay the shipping expense.

If you’ve not seen it already, here’s the Lackluster World #6 cover art.

So. Headcount?

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I’m simultaneously working on LACKLUSTER WORLD #6 and #7 and will have them wrapped up this Summer. LACKLUSTER WORLD #6 has my favorite cover from the series thus far…

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Tomorrow (Saturday, May 2), I will be signing, selling and celebrating comics fro FREE COMIC BOOK DAY at Comics2Games in Florence, KY. You can get directions and all the free comics info at their site.

I’ll be passing out free copies of LACKLUSTER WORLD #1 to anyone with an empty hand.

Stop by and say hi!

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GEM CITY COMIC CON 2009 was a couple weeks ago and I can’t say I have all that much to share regarding the show, but here goes:

I must say it went much better than I expected. I went last year and did so-so sales-wise so I was apprehensive to return. Not really sure what was different this year, but maybe it just needed a couple years to grow it’s legs.

The usual gang was there: Chuck Moore, Bill Gladman and John Wilson of ComicRelated.com. Darren and Jackie of Ringtail Cafe. Bob Hickey of Blue Line Pro. Jon Hodges. My neighbor at the show was Dustin Carson (he writes an interesting comic called NO GODS [Review at CR]).

I sold the crap out of my JESUS & TALKING BEAR tee shirts.

The Underground Video Network did a mini-interview with me where I gave my standard LACKLUSTER WORLD sales pitch. Here’s the vid. My segment starts around the 3:00 mark.

Like I said, it went better than I expected, so I’ll be returning next year.

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This is terribly last minute of me, but I will be at Gem City Comic Con tomorrow in Dayton, Ohio.

I’ll have the usual Lackluster World goodness, copies of Reflection and the still newish Jesus & Talking Bear tee shirts.

Sorry, no new issue of LW just yet. I’m working on it though!

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There is still time to get one before Xmas.

Get it here:
Jesus & Talking Bear Tee Shirt at LacklusterWorld.com 

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The printer just sent me this ‘digital proof’. I suppose it ‘proves’ this shirt is, indeed, amazing.

Still available here:
http://lacklusterworld.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=36 

Still shipping next week.

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Celebrate the birth of Jesus with this commemorative tee shirt!

After years of requests, I’ve finally put this shirt into production. Those of you intimately familiar with my LACKLUSTER WORLD comics should remember this scene from issue #3.  Those of you unfamiliar will probably enjoy its blasphemy anyway.

About the shirt… It’s black, white and Pantone 424 (Gray) inks silkscreened on an ‘Ice Gray’ tee. Monochrome! When you wear it to your family holiday functions, you will stand out nicely.

Ships December 17th. Some sizes WILL sell out before Christmas. 

BUY! BUY! BUY!

Free shipping on orders $25 and up!

And if you don’t already have a copy of REFLECTION, we still have copies available!

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78 minute podcast interview with me on Comic Related’s podcast this week. I talk about all kinds of things relating to LACKLUSTER WORLD and comics. This is a good listen for anyone interested in knowing more about my feelings about LW and its characters. Check it out.

http://comicrelated.com/audio/relatedrecap028.html

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WIZARD WORLD CHICAGO 2008 was a strange, but good one.

The first four hours of the drive weren’t so bad, but that last hour took about three. Seriously, Chicago. What the fuck is wrong with your traffic? Still, I was in the good company of Joanna Estep and suffering is always better when it’s with a loved one.

By the time we reached the far side of Chicago, only one hour of ‘Premiere Night’ remained. We dropped our stuff off at our tables without even setting up and quickly took off to meetup with some of the ComicMix people.

Then we drank cucumber water.

Then a loud, crazy guy showed us gigantic pieces of meat.

And a lobster that looked like something out of the Dark Tower.

He called me “Chief” a lot.

The guy did.  Not the lobster.

I could explain all of that and it would make complete sense, but I prefer keeping it ambiguous as it makes my experience sound more interesting and mysterious.

Big, big thank you to Myke Amend who unfortunately had to cancel his trip to Chicago, but donated his table to me/us. I was able to relocate to what would have been his excellent position and it was far superior to my original position in that crappy, hidden, offshoot Artist Alley.

Big, big, sarcastic non-thank you to the WWC person that sticks a four (five?) year veteran of the show in what I would call the ‘freshman area’. To be fair, that spot did turn out okay for Joanna who braved it while I was in the greener pastures of the Artist Alley proper.

Friday was excellent. That’s normally a fluke, but I’ve always had strong sales on Friday at this particular con. The weekend was lining up to meet with my expectations of success. Then, Saturday happened. Sales didn’t surpass Friday’s numbers and that’s strange as Saturday usually blows Friday out of the water at any given con. Sunday, expectations were again turned on their ear as the day started off strong and bumped my total numbers from the pits of ‘Meh’ up into the heavens of ‘Good’.

So yeah, my sales were a little under par from year’s past - about 80% of the usual for Chicago. Now for all those interested in the business aspect of my small pressery:

All the regulars following LACKLUSTER WORLD came back for the new, fifth issue and my number of customers for the weekend was almost identical from last year despite the lower cash total. It gets strange when it comes to new readers. I spieled my little pitch to the same amount of people and it was just as effective as usual, but instead of buying the full run of available issues, they only bought the first one or two. That’s very new.

I think all the hubbub about the economy/recession has finally caught up to me and to be honest I think I’ve been lucky up to this point.  LW sales overall are up from this point last year, but I suspect that in order to maintain the sales levels I’m historically accustomed to, I may need to shift my present convention strategies before things get worse. My next shows are BALTIMORE COMICON and MID OHIO CON later this fall so I have some time to plot. My instinct tells me ‘more variety’.

Anyway, I would love to show you photos of the con, but I never think to take photos at these things. Instead, allow me to direct you to ComicRelated.com and it’s photo galleries along with excellent coverage of the entire show. Grand maestro, Chuck Moore, runs that place and he does a hell of job with it.  He even produced a new podcast each night from his hotel room.

So that’s another WIZARD WORLD CHICAGO come and gone. I vote that next year, they change the name to LACKLUSTER WORLD CHICAGO.