craigtaillefer.bsky.social
šØš¦ Comic Book Artist, Writer, Publisher: Wahoo Morris, Thrilling Tales of Vistas Unknown, SĆ®an.
Inker/Artist: Books Of Magic, Dead Boy Detectives, Elfquest.
Email: craig @ craigtaillefer.com
Web: https://www.craigtaillefer.com/Sian
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Good morning.
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What Iāve got is working so far. I like control, so Iām not too bad at maintaining a site.
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My online store is a little basic, just a secondary wordpress install subordinate to the main site, with each item a "Post". But, the basic paypal button plugin I use will automatically send the dropbox link right after the sale so it's handsoff for me.
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I never think to submit my work for awards! Not sure how much notice hand-distributed micro-press comics like mine will get, but what the hey!
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I do not like this! I do not like rooting for Tucker even for a micro-second.
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No one used the Digital Comics one, but I wish more creators would follow my lead. Iād love to be able to buy digital while standing at the table instead of taking a card or a photo to remind me to do it when I get home.
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Lots of good advice here. Iām big on the hand sanitizer between interactions!
A new one for me at TCAF was a small plastic standee (The kind you slip a sheet of paper in) with a QR code to a webpage with all my socials, and another with a QR code to the Digital Comic section of my store.
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Me masking at #TCAF two weeks ago.
It was refreshing to see so many exhibitors and attendees masking. I did not feel like I stood out at all.
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I had that conundrum for TCAF. I was driving so no big deal. I brought waaaay more than I needed.
Best sales ever and I still could have done it with one box instead of the four crates I brought.
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Lager Louts is a new term for me! I like it.
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I donāt know HOW to use the digital rulers!
There are so many things that seemed intuitive in Manga Studio that I did, that when I switched to Clip Studio I couldnāt figure out how to do.
Other than inking panel borders with the line tool, everything else is pretty much making marks by hand.
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I do it on a separate layer than the inks, but I went back to hand drawing SFX and some title lettering too.
I like to think I could make the switch back easily as Iām a Luddite who uses a plastic ruler to draw straight lines on the Cintiq. I still use my French curves too.
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Ditto!
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... wasn't traditionally a destination of choice for immigrants like Toronto or Montreal.
That's changed a lot with each each refugee crisis since the 70's. Eg. Canada took in 40000 Syrians in 2016, so Ottawa has a sizeable Syrian community now, probably making it more appealing as a first choice.
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My quick Wiki search shows the biggest migration in Canada was to Montreal (probably same appeal as LA), and pre WW2 there was an immigration path for Christians. Not sure what brought a sizeable community to Ottawa? It's a govt. town arbitrarily dropped into a logging and farming community so ...
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Andā¦ my roundabout point is, I wasnāt introduced to middle eastern food through those childhood friends. It wasnāt what their mom was serving at birthday parties and the handful of times I got invited for food.
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- my tiny grade school class. It was the first āethnicityā I was aware of as they would tell everyone, before I had any clue what mine was.š¤£
I never thought to ask, but Iām guessing they were part of the earliest and Christian diaspora.
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Interesting. Thereās a loooot of Lebanese and middle eastern food in Ottawa now, shawarma on every corner, but itās more of a recent-ish mid 90ās to early 2000s development Iād say.
When I was growing up there was a pretty big Lebanese community (first kids I met on my block) and 2 or 3 kids in -
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I bring a large pump bottle of hand sanitizer to every show.
Shake a hand, pump. Fist bump, pump. Hand my phone over so they can enter email for a receipt, pump and wipe down.
I keep the bottle behind my little book stand so hopefully no one sees me do it, but I sanitize constantly.
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I miss forums. š
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Iāve had to switch to drawing at a dam near upright position (maybe 75-80 degree) because of cervical neck issues. Iām digital, but Iām not sure how it will work if I ever get back to paper.
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I donāt really pay attention to the Grammys, but isnāt there a traditional AND contemporary blues category?
Iām sure the new category IS because of Beyonce, just saying there are legitimate reasons for needing it.
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It would be ironic if the Carolina Chocolate Drops reformed and won the new category.
Though as someone who is a casual listener to older styles of country and scratches my head at the ārock Music in a cowboy hatā stuff that passes for country these days a traditional category is probably needed.
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Hope it went well. I barely left my table, so I missed out on saying hi to most folks. I did a quick run around the con perimeter at one point and couldn't find your table, then another quick run later in the day and you weren't there.š¤£
I listened to the substack and some interesting observations.
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Thanks! It was good.
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Great to finally meet you too!
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6/ If I don't get into #TCAF next year I might make the trip just to wander the show, buy comics, and socialize.
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5/ I barely left the table, being there by myself, so I never really got out to see the rest of the show. There were a lot of people I wanted to say hi to and/or meet but couldn't really get away for more than a run to the concessions for a coffee or bio break.
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4/ Believe me, I'm not complaining. I rarely was sitting down bored for more than ten minutes before someone would stop by and look. I had a lot of good and interesting chats and spoke to a lot of people. And again, best show ever.
I wasn't much of a networking or social show though. My fault...
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Judging by my row, it seemed like what most folks were interested in was more zines, the arty or hand-made and experimental stuff, so I felt a little invisible, but every half hour someone would make a beeline to my table and made an easy sale of The Sci-fi or Sword & Sorcery comic, or both.
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Interestingly, what sold was not what I expected.
I figured if Wahoo Morris was going to sell at any show it was going to be #TCAF, but nope, sold one set.
My Weird Sci-Fantasy anthology floppy was the breakout seller. I had 5 self-published items plus WFH so a little bit of everything sold.
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Hey! Didnāt know you were here/there. Didnāt manage to leave the table at all yesterday.
Hope itās going well for you.
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Wait! Are you at TCAf?
Iām there this year.
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Thanks!
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If you take a drink every time they do on the show it could be amusing!