What I’m Not Bringing To Penguicon
Posted April 15th, 2007 by Howard TaylerI always have a hard time packing for conventions. Penguicon 5.0 will be no different, and in some ways it will be harder, because I have found that I miss my trollbloods when I don’t have them with me.
It sounds silly, I know, but I love having my paints and my miniatures handy, and I’m sure there are folks at the convention who would love to see these figs up close where the sub-optimal lighting from my photos is compensated for by the ability to rotate the model in front of a stereoscopic input system in real-time.
It’s also a little sad to have a couple of thousand points or more of Warmachine and Hordes models sitting safely at home when I could be hauling them to battle in the game room.
My mind, however, is made up. I’m bringing my cartooning gear for working the crowd, original strips for on-reserve sale (want one? email me!), and books for selling to Schlockers and others. Tumsy the Pyre Troll and Mirduk Stonegullet the Krielstone bearer will be staying at home with their friends. Besides… they fought well this weekend, and deserve a rest.
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April 15th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Coool… I may have to look into Iron Kingdoms now. Is that troll supposed to have fire inside him? Looks like his tummy is glowing like hot iron.
April 15th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
spacemonst3r: That is a Pyre Troll, and he has two key abilities in the wargame — “Spew Fire” and “Flaming Fists.” Interestingly, he can be caught in a flame attack himself and be injured by it. Fire-spewing is not the same as fire-immunity.
They are not mentioned in the Monsternomicon, but I suspect they’ve been added to Monsternomicon II.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
… rotate in front of a stereoscopic …
You nerd.
(I know, stop the presses.)
April 15th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Holy Cow, dude!
You’re Pyre Troll looks amazing!
Now I wish you had brought it to Emerald City.
Say, do you ever post on the Privateer Press forums?
April 16th, 2007 at 6:28 am
shafern: Thanks! I didn’t bring it to ECCC because it wasn’t painted yet. In fact, I don’t think I had the body piece yet — when I originally purchased it I found that the torso was defective, and I had to put in for a replacement.
I do post on the Privateer Press forums, usually under “Trollblood Tactics.” My username isn’t hard to figure out.
April 16th, 2007 at 9:15 am
That must be interesting for him, spweing fire while not being immune. Must be why he’s called tumsy, he’ll be needing a few.
April 16th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Exactly! He’s got permanent indigestion.
April 16th, 2007 at 10:36 am
If that’s what they look like with suboptimal lighting, then HOLY BODY PARTS you’re so much better than I’ve ever aspired to be…
Which is encouraging.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Yikes. Those are impressive looking.
Maybe it’s just me, but the Pyre Troll looks like he’s shouting “Get it off! Get it off!” and waving his arms to douse the flames…
April 17th, 2007 at 10:53 am
I think you got fine lighting on your Pyre Troll, but Stony there looks much better in person.
And McNutcase, there is a trick to learning to paint quickly. I’ll steal a phrase out of No Quarter and say -Paint like you’ve got a pair!
You have to have the chutzpah to look at some fantastic paintjob and say “Pff! Oh, I could do that.”
Step two is learning how. There are tons of places where you can learn the techniques, and it might take you a long time to get some minis finished.
But Howard keeps saying that he had an advantage from drawing cartoons. Really, Howard just has an unlimited supply of moxy.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
… An unlimited supply of moxy, which, I might add, was developed by learning to draw comics in front of 30,000 people.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
I have been wondering what your readership was.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
But you weren’t curious enough to ask? I don’t try to keep it a secret.
I have about 30,000 daily readers, and deliver around 250,000 page-views per day.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Do pyre trolls explode spontaneously like the esteemed Mr. Pratchett’s swamp dragons?
April 18th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Austin Shackles: No… but as a result of some defective parts and a replacement, I have a perfectly servicable lower-half of a Pyre Troll who just MIGHT get transformed into a “my top blew up” model.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
That massive number of page views may have something to do with those of us who re-read the same comic(s) a couple of times a day, just to make sure we get all the subtle nuances.
And I didn’t want to pry, but after thinking about it, I realise that readership is-and should be- a source of personal satisfaction and achievement. I am sorry now that I didn’t ask when I first thought of it.
April 21st, 2007 at 12:02 am
I’m pretty sure you had the moxy when you first started drawing Schlock. It may not have been unlimited back then, but it had to last for the half of a year before you started really getting bonus moxy.
I’m making this sound like XP aren’t I?
April 26th, 2007 at 1:16 am
What impact do people like me have on those counts? Normally (if there’s such a thing as normal in my life these days) I read most days, occasionally missing a few but catching up soon after, but I’ve been busy, then sick (not too badly, but it kept me home, and I don’t usually use the net from home because it’s a bit of a hassle, but today I wanted to catch up), so this is the first day I’ve been here since between Schlock’s escape from the bag and the confirmation that Kevyn’s trail ended.
Okay, I don’t expect you to actually look into the issue, but be aware that a count of daily readers doesn’t necessarily include someone dropping by to catch up on the last ten days.
But then, as a mercenary cartoonist, how are numbers of non-paying readers relevant, now that you make a living from your art?