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Even though I just got home, it's time to hit the road again -- as on Saturday (April 26th 2025) I'm going to be at Concinnity in Milwaukee, WI.
Concinnity is a one day con held at MSOE downtown. This is the con's 25th year, and even though I've been doing Wisconsin cons since, well, before this con existed, somehow I've never ended up going to it until now. Largely this is because it fell so close to No Brand Con historically, so I was usually far too burnt out to do another event so close to it. But as No Brand is on hiatus, I figured it was about time I dipped my toe in and sent off a vendor application a while back.
I'm excited to finally go to this. I'll have all my standard stuff for sale, so if you're in town and feel like going to a little college show, stop on by and say hello. After this con though I'm going to take a well deserved rest. This much travel can take a lot out of me -- we've only been home for a couple of days, and we're immediately hitting the road again with this con.
In fact I should probably go to bed right now.
My next cons after this won't be until this summer, with Big Minneapolis Anime in Minneapolis August 2-3, and then Anime 414 in Milwaukee August 9-10. The former of which I'll be sharing a table with Peregrine Lake artist Ethan Flanagan. I'm slowly building up to a full schedule again this year, and I'm trying new stuff as much as I can.
Hopefully y'all come with me for the ride.
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*Waits one year to see how big of a disaster the gophers are at Unagi Con next year.
Hmm. That seems a mistake on Jim’s part. Generally, you don’t want to leave the defeated an avenue to come right back to haunt you. If he could rustle up that kind of support, it’d seem he could just as easily oust her entirely.
He doesn’t want her in charge of anything anymore to punish her. But at the same time he also doesn’t want to lose the invaluable skills she gives to Unagi Con.
Look back at what he did with Garner when he was still the problem. (http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2017/06/basic-group-dynamics/)
“I may have to subtly break apart any clique he’s started to form, and distract him with some task to keep him in check.”
Jim may think he knows what he’s doing, because he’s been dealing with people like Garner for a decade. But I get the feeling that he doesn’t quite understand the depths of what he’s dealing with when trying to handle Lynn in the same way.
Lynn has already made a mistake. Jim is not mad about the Nazi-punching.
he’s mad about Lynn lying to his face.
I still find this the least mature route to go in this instance.
Its just as much work to come up with evidence and confront the individual about the fabrication. But because Jim is the way he is when it comes to confrontation, he has to handle it this way. Which I just don’t understand – its confrontation either way. Just confrontation he’s comfortable with.