So there was a pop culture convention in Canberra called Gammacon (yay for another convenient place to go to). Emmajeans and I went to represent the ACT Comic Meet peoples. We arrived early and eventually found the place. Signage was unfortunately lacking but we had a good general idea where it could be due to our exposure to the ANU campus. Our table was all pre setup with  ‘ACT Comic Meet’ stuck to it – we also had a backing board and chairs all ready to go which was nice. The Artist alley seemed to have it’s own assigned caretaker who was very friendly and helpful. We also got a quick security and safety talk that I thought was very clear and professional. Beside us we had Spae and Jin so we had other crazy art people to keep us company. There was board games, video games, cosplay, drawing and trinkets.

We had people of various sorts pass our table-  the cute enthusiastic little nerdy kids that were very proud of their cosplay, the painfully awkward teenagers, the boisterous students and some friendly jerks (hi Adam ! ). Not much comic stuff around to speak of besides us and friends. We had a strange vibe at this con where there seemed to be a higher amount of people acting inappropriate and generally more like hyper children then the actual children…. who were nice. I’m not certain why but my theory is it’s due to people who are used to mucking around at the University. It’s like this is their stomping ground and they believe their behaviour did not have to be altered for the setting. This was meant to be a public event that people are paying to attend not how you would act at home with friends. Apparently Gammcon has been around for a while but this year they are trying to push the event away from a purely Anime event to a pop culture event. I had a sense the primary event organisers had a good idea of how the event should be run but a few instances of particular events run very badly tainted it considerably.

I think I would be interested in giving the event another go next year – there was a lot of feedback forms filled out so this will lead to better things. It was certainly a day that we took away many crazy stories from.  It was also the 1st time I actually put up a sign saying I would do commissions…. which no one purchased but still it was there and will be ready to stickup next time 🙂

Gavin THE really really tired … like Con tired Thomson