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The town of Easthampton in Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts this year is privileged enough to be home to Webcomics Weekend, the largest assembly of webcomic creators in the world ever. Forever. I live in Pioneer Valley. I am tripping balls.
Now sadly it looks like our glorious leader isn't going to able to make it (unless you all donate hotel money and air fare right now, that is magical and therefore cannot be used to pay bills instead) however just about everyone else (excluding Penny Arcade) will be there. Check out the dumbfounding guest list HERE. These guys seem to have just thrown together a few local names and lost control, because this thing reads like the frakking Oscar list of webcomics.

The event is from the 20th of March to the 22nd.

I'll be there for all three days with a friend of mine (not an FB yet, I'm working on him). Anyone else?

I want to go to this SO HARD. You guys have no idea. I have this gut feeling that I am supposed to be there. Like webcomic Jesus is going to come back that weekend and appear to every web cartoonist but me.

A plane ticket is about $300 for a round trip. I have no idea how much a hotel would be. I just can't afford the expense. Things are tight enough as it is.

COMMANDERETTE We'll beam you back, sir.

SKROOB Forget it. Forget it. No more beaming. This time I'm gonna
walk.

Fancy Bastardry is afoot.

I need to know where to stay.

Rooming with the talented Mr. Watson himself. You're living the FB dream!

Just remember, Joel =/= Josh, especially in regards to dark hotel rooms.

Posted By: DramI keep thinking though, wouldn't it be ironic if HE murdered ME in my sleep?

And then writes a humorous comic about it so that we don't suspect it really happened.

I'm going!

Info is here: http://hijinksensue.com/2009/02/23/ill-be-attending-webcomics-weekend-march-20-22/

Posted By: RerunAh JC you most awesome of bastards. Such a very cool thing to do for Mr. Joel. Anyone want to shout me a ticket from Aus to the US?

I've got a ticket on a Flight 815 from Sydney to LA. ;-)

Posted By: John DarcJoel should get himself added to the guest list, just cause.Move over, bananas! I've got a new source of potassium!

I emailed and said I was going. Maybe you guys should email and ask too. These guys dont really know me so they may not care.

Wait... so is it just Joel, JustChristine, and me? That's... cool. I mean, it'll be keen as balls and all that, but no other FBs can manage to lumber through the frozen wastes of my frigid world in search of nirvana and funnybooks? That's sad. I wish you all could come! We'd take that shit over.

Posted By: DramDid you RSVP with the Book of Faces as they requested?

I did tonight. If it gets close and Im still not on the list I guess I will email again.

Okay then, it's the big week! I've been wondering if there are any FB plans for friday night. I don't drink and we all know Joel doesn't, not to mention the population of the Pub Crawl is likely to turn it into more of a migratory pub nation, so that seems unlikely. Are there any other ideas? I'm up for a movie and I know there are a lot of nice theaters around the area (I STILL haven't see Watchmen, christ) but really I'd be up for whatever.

Posted By: JustChristineWell, I drink but I'm really trying to cut back, so I wouldn't be averse having an alternate plan in lieu of pub crawl.

I AM however volunteering at NEWW and might be needed for setup at some point on Friday, so my plans are going to have to work around that stuff (once I find out). I imagine that would be over before the pub crawl was supposed to start though. *shrug*@ijustwatched: "I Just Watched...", the 2009 Movie Watching Project. Help me watch 500+ unique titles!

Yeah I would assume that would be finishing in the mid-afternoon or so.

So now that it's been over for a while, I have a question. I am admittedly not a huge webcomic fan, or to put it another way, I am a fan of a few webcomics, but not that many (HE, GWS, PA, Squared Circle). Others, like PvP, CAD, Looking For Group, xkcd, Cyanide and Happiness, and a few others are good when I remember to check them out, but I don't feel like I've missed anything if I don't read them for a few weeks/months at a time. Would it be worth it for someone like me (who also has zero artistic ability) to attend the weekend, or is it more for artists and the uber-fans who can quote panel #2 of comic #164 from obscurewebcomic.com (no I don't know if that's a real site). On one hand it seems like it would be fun to see webcomics that I don't normally get exposed to, but if it's more like a seminar on how to make better comics, and less like a "browse around"-type convention then it might not be a good fit. What say the attendees?

Posted By: John DarcWell if you go by Just Christine's interview quote, she wanted to be there so much she even helped them do stuff, and she only reads two comics.

From what I understand, it was a good clusterfuck tonne of webcomicing stuff to do and buy. You might want to be a webcomic fan to go, but I don't think you need to be that uber-nerd you've posited. Even though I can't draw at all and really have only a passing interest in even making a webcomic (or being a Tycho and just being a writer) I would still find some of those panels interesting. Stuff like how to engage readers with a gag a day strip with no recurring characters, or who would win in a fight between webcomic artists and a bear.Move over, bananas! I've got a new source of potassium!

The panels would have been less hilarious if I wasn't a walking webcomic wikipedia, but mostly it was just a really fun group of people all trying to make each other laugh at once.