{"id":297,"date":"2023-09-21T21:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T02:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doartproductions.org\/?p=297"},"modified":"2023-12-22T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T21:55:44","slug":"quadcon-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doartproductions.org\/staging\/2101\/quadcon-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from Quadcon Dubuque, Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Happy Friday to everyone!  We wrapped up our 15th comic con at Brookfield Wisconsin last week–we had a blast and we we hope you all did too.  I wrote a short piece about our previous Quadcon in Dubuque, Iowa, but I hadn’t had time to edit and post it.  I think it captures a lot of the feeling I get from doing these comic cons and events, the tension between doing something new and therefore intimidating, and the joy of bringing your art into people’s hands.  It was also an amazing opportunity to think through the geography and history that makes so many of these small Midwest towns special.  Anyhow, enjoy my ruminations and don’t forget to Do Art!  <\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Thank you all for another amazing weekend!\u00a0 We just got back from our 14th comic con at Five Flags Center in Dubuque Iowa.\u00a0 I was terribly impressed by the city\u2013the beautiful turn-of-the-century architecture of a prosperous river port on the Mississippi back when the river was one of America\u2019s most important commercial arteries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Driving there from Rochelle, IL, you are startled by the sudden change of geography, as the seemingly endless flatlands that stretch across the midwest south of Rockford IL suddenly become curving roads around steep hills.\u00a0 This is the Midwest\u2019s <\/span>Driftless Area<\/a>\u2013 a stretch of land including Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa that was not covered with ice during the last Ice Ages.\u00a0 Where the surrounding area was flattened by huge ice sheets from modern-day Canada, this ice did not cover the Driftless area, and its ancient streams and waterways carved deep gullies and ravines into rock older than the dinosaurs.<\/span><\/p>

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What this meant, in the present day, is that the drive to Dubuque was quite different from the drive  to Davenport, Iowa, or Omaha, Nebraska.  The terrain was hillier, and when the roads crested we saw massive vistas overlooking plains that stretched into the horizon.  The trip was less homogenous than a drive south to Peoria or north to Milwaukee\u2013where highway towns with tall signs for gas and fast food places fly by at 70 miles an hour or more.  <\/span><\/p>\n

 We arrived the day before the comic con and began by looking for a campsite.  The first campground was jam packed with Iowa State fans, listening to the football game blaring on the speakers.  Third Eye Blind was playing at the casino, and we regretted not knowing sooner.  The second site had space for us, however.  We set up our tents and explored a bit before going back out to get something to eat.  We turned in early, after starting a small campfire and talking about our plans for the <\/span>website<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The next day I woke up, rather sore after trying out a new air mattress that didn\u2019t seem to have blown up all the way.\u00a0 We packed up quickly and made our way to the con.\u00a0 The convention, as it turned out, was located in the center of downtown Dubuque, within view of the town clock.\u00a0 At the loading dock we saw the stand of the Galena Ghostbusters<\/a>\u2013custom Ghosbusters cars, people with custom proton packs doing raffles and pictures for charity.\u00a0 One member was dressed up in Slimer costume\u2013yet another dressed as a hybrid of a Ghostbuster and Silent Bob<\/a> (from the Kevin Smith Extended Universe), shoulder-length hair and a cigarette hanging from his lip.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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We found our spot along the bleachers and set up.\u00a0 The centerpiece of our booth was the drawing tables, along one side, along with two huge banners.\u00a0 These displayed our drawings, and drawings people had made of us since we\u2019d started doing workshops <\/a>earlier in the year.\u00a0 A cat Jerry licked his paw, while a Chet Among Us peered out from his cyclops visor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Soon the con was humming with people.\u00a0 I started out rather slowly, but a breakfast sandwich from Caroline\u2019s\u2013egg and bacon panini, with this amazing jam that lent the bacon some sweetness\u2013revived me.\u00a0 A man walked by with his two daughters.\u00a0 His daughters coaxed him into drawing and he mentioned that he\u2019d been to art school.\u00a0 He drew me as a zombie, with an eye coming out of its socket, and had his daughter color me \u201cwith gore, but not too much rot.\u201d\u00a0 He mentioned that he was a sculptor, working mostly with wood or metal, and made his lines holding pencil with fingers on the top and thumb on the bottom\u2013the way you\u2019re taught in art school\u2013rather than with the hand sideways, pencil between fingers and thumb, the way most people write.<\/span><\/p>

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The day went by fairly quickly.\u00a0 Another vendor walked by and drew me hanging out the side of a car.\u00a0 He lived out by Wisconsin, had been a painter but hadn\u2019t drawn anything in years.\u00a0 Jerry played with his kids as they drew, throwing them a whiteboard eraser.\u00a0 They\u2019d toss it back and he\u2019d start juggling, repeating the trick until they all got it right.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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The con ended at 4.\u00a0 We picked up the drawings of Chet and Jerry\u2013over a hundred of them\u2013and put them away to be looked over, and maybe added to the next crop of banners.\u00a0 We packed up our stuff and headed out the loading door, toward the clock tower.\u00a0 John, who organized the event, helped some cars get through the loading dock into the convention space.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Jerry would later say than the man running the Smash Brothers tournament thanked him, and told him that what we\u2019re doing is important.\u00a0 For humanity.\u00a0 That all sounds rather grandiose, for a booth that sells comics and invites people to draw wacky pictures, but the community created at these cons cannot be understated.\u00a0 It\u2019s a long day for the vendors, to be sure, but again and again we\u2019ve seen individuals, friends, and families brought together by a love of art and a passion for fandom.\u00a0 Adding our unique blend of art and creativity to these events has been an absolute pleasure.\u00a0 Can\u2019t wait for the next one.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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