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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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but Milwaukee doesn’t want a con!
Welcome to the heck we have over in Virginia.
Shots fired.
Milwaukee’s various fandoms are so fragmented, scattered and disconnected, it’s possible that a new startup con could legitimately think it was alone out there. And I can say this as a part of the “old-school” cons that faded out decades ago (X-Con, First Contact and Brew-Con). A whole generation was absent from congoing here; I’m the youngest of the old guard, and I’m 50! But now, there is Midwinter Gaming Festival in January (heavy LARP focus, but expanded to other realms of gaming), Concinnity, and of course Anime Milwaukee (AMKE).
Finally, someone besides me who remembers the long dead Milwaukee con scene! 😛
Also, for current cons, you forgot Nezumi Con, Midwest Gaming Classic, the upcoming Nexus Game Fair and Mighty Con Milwaukee.
…and I know I’m forgetting a few whose names I just can’t remember. 😛
Fur Squared! http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Fur_Squared
Okay. not *technically* Milwaukee…
Thanks for mentioning that – I keep a list of dates of furry cons I know of, and I hadn’t heard of this one. It has now been added…
I just hit up Wikifur. They’re good for that.
I’d discounted MGC because it’s Waukesha, not Milwaukee 😉 Besides, I’m so far out of the gaming loop these days it’s not funny. Only reason I knew about Midwinter is that the folks who run it ran their main LARP out of my favorite coffee shop for a long time. Comic cons seem to be one of two extremes, either glorified swap meets, or big-budget extravaganzas like SDCC, and ain’t my scene in either case.
I thought it was a reference that many people from Milwaukee don’t there is anything more to Wisconsin passed well Milwaukee and Madison. That’s how I interpreted the joke.
It’s a multi-level joke…
Kinda like how no one from Omaha or Lincoln thinks there is anything else in Nebraska.
I’m pleased that the Lincoln and Omaha con scenes are returning. Omaha’s been getting a redic amount of cons sprouting up.
Thank goodness he’s offering the flyer to Megan rather than Lynn. It might not end up getting shoved somewhere uncomfortable.