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One year ago, on April 16th 2024, the first page of Peregrine Lake went online. One year since we first met Bev as she drove through a snow storm and said the exact thing most of us have said in that scenario.
It took so long for Peregrine Lake to get off the ground. I first announced it back in December of 2019, and originally I was going to draw it. And then the world fell apart, and I found myself with zero ability to draw it anymore. I kept kicking the idea around, wanting to move it forward when in 2023 I jokingly suggested to my friend Ethan that they could draw the comic for me.
And they said yes, they'd love to, and I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
We then spent almost a year regularly meeting, talking about my plans for the plots, the world, the characters, and all the things that would have otherwise just lived in my head. I started scripting comics, and Ethan got to work on concept art. And for most of 2023 we planned and got ready, and we hit the ground running in 2024.
And now we're here. Honestly, I love everything we've put out over the last year. Ethan's art is incredible, and tells the story in a way that I'm not sure mine would have. I love this comic, I love that you all are reading it, and I'm excited to show you what's coming next.
Because we've only just scratched the surface on how weird this is going to get.
On April 26th I'm going to be at Concinnity in Milwaukee, WI! Stop on by and say hi if you're in town!
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Which isn’t to say the convention can’t be done… zero money is where most conventions start out. Now to raise funds, and go from there. And you have a team of people already who have an idea what they’re doing, as well as whatever supplies belong to the con, so you’ve a leg up. Not to say it’s going to be easy, just possible.
One problem is that cons tend to grow throughout the years. Starting out from zero again would mean having to set up a smaller or lower-quality event than what the visitors became accustomed to.
Glad to see that got out of this year without debt.
Very few cons that aren’t first-year start out at zero. I don’t know the scale of BorkCon or what their expenses look like but it might be rough to get any venue with no money.