On Conventions and Convening

On Conventions and Convening

Jay here! I'm in the midst of trying to get together our promotional materials and graphics for ECCC--which is coming up awfully fast. We've got a lot going on this year: in addition to tabling, we're doing a live episode on Friday, and throwing a party/listener meetup--hosted by Seattle's awesome Phoenix Comics--on Saturday.

Cons are odd spaces for us as a podcast. We've both been to a lot of shows individually, but in super different capacities: I'm usually attending as a pro and/or covering the show as a journalist; and Miles is usually working IT and retail for Dark Horse. Tabling--and meeting listeners--as ourselves (not to mention the idea that we're people who people come to conventions to meet--is something we're still very much getting used to.

At the same time, the few cons we've attended as Jay & Miles (that is to say, Official Podcast Jay & Miles) have really driven home our favorite thing about doing this show: the community that's built up around it. We're still a few days out from introducing that community here en masse--we're trying to avoid losing the announcement between the massive amount of Episode 100 and ECCC stuff that has been and is about to be going up--but we're really excited about the idea of seeing how it grows in a more explicitly community-oriented space.