Comments on: Annotated 22-6 https://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-22-6/ The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer - New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:01:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.29 By: T https://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-22-6/comment-page-1/#comment-1436786 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 11:59:51 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=12711#comment-1436786 The period we produced chapters 23-24 was, I think, the most difficult for us overall. There were blowups before and one big one after, but it was around this point we were starting to come to grips with what we could and couldn’t accomplish with the business, and both our personal lives kinda sucked as well, all of which took its toll on the partnership. Glad we toughed it out, though.

]]> By: TimK https://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-22-6/comment-page-1/#comment-1436761 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 09:04:01 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=12711#comment-1436761 I enjoy the smaller, fan-run cons. The bigger they get though the less fun I seem to have. Part of this is that the venues get too big – you can walk around for days and fail to meet people you know are there as things split up across different conference areas and hotels. There is also an increasing “cattle market” vibe to the larger media cons, once you have huge queues for signed items etc… whereas at smaller cons you can end up chatting to authors whose books you now want to read at the bar with no idea who they are (or, as at my first con, invited to decent, cheap, local restaurant by a local author who realised you were a bit lost, and until we put our name badges on when we went back in I’d no idea he even was an author I’d heard of).

I suspect it is similar for those attending as “creatives”, the more informal, normally smaller, cons seem to be enjoyed more by folks on both sides really. Of course you also mostly get the authors/artists/etc who value and enjoy meeting people at the smaller cons as they are less of a business event than a social one. I’ve helped run volunteer run fannish cons, and working with some authors who actually had ideas for program items they wanted to do but had never been asked for was great fun, and several of the items went down really well at the con too.

Got to agree with BM03, it is sad to see in the commentary how hard the creative process seems to have been at times, and how difficult the working relationship gets too. This does make it interesting though, as many people gloss over such things, so many thanks for doing this, I hope the commentary process is easier and helps refill some of what was drained.

Regarding the plague. Hopefully things will get back to normal in a 3-6 months and we all get to go to things again, before then take care everyone (as someone with a “pre-existing condition” I’m taking thing seriously). Take care and good luck everyone!

]]> By: BM03 https://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-22-6/comment-page-1/#comment-1436736 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 06:34:11 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=12711#comment-1436736 That made cons sound horrible, but I’ve never been to one so I’ll deffer to your wisdom.
The last line made me a bit sad because it gives me the impressions that Guilded Age turned out to be more draining than fulfilling.

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