Marc Von Ahnen
- Jun 27, 2019
- 2 min read

Ericon

Who would have thought that a comic con in a Boone Iowa would be so fantastic!

My friend, Dean Sturtevant, told me about this convention in the Ericson Public Library.

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I had nothing planned last Saturday so I filled out the paperwork and got Kaylin and I signed up to sell our stories about football playing ducks and vampire sharks. Boone is about an hour drive from Des Moines and since it started at 9 we had to leave by at least 7:30. Saturday morning when my alarm went off at 6:0 I regretted signing up for anything. But I heroically pulled myself out of bed and picked up a waiting Kaylin and we drove off.

We got to the library about 8:30 and, carrying our merchandise inside, someone pulled out a Harry Potter wand and pointed it at me. He may have cursed me in some way.

Our plan was to drive and then find a McDonalds to eat breakfast but fun fact the only McDonalds in Boone Iowa had burned down it seemed. So instead we went to a small bakery and got donuts.

Pretty much the second we got back in and to our table it was 9 and the crowds started coming in. There was a costume contest and the people of Boone didn't disappoint. One girl dressed in an amazing Donald Duck costume and I made Kaylin feel really uncomfortable when I told the person in the costume that "Donald Duck doesn't wear pants."

My favorite costume was a young kid in a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

People came to my table regularly, I gave my pitch about the vampire shark comic being inspired by Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. I made a number of sales that day. My experience at cons is that you have a lot of down town but this day it was packed and busy all day! Before the show had began I asked my friend Noah 'OX' Baas if he wanted to record an episode of Dogs I Saw but we never had time. That's pretty spectacular.

The highlight of the morning for me was when a man that I didn't know walked up to my table and said "I didn't know you were going to be here."

"I just signed up this week."

"I got all your issues at Jays."

I couldn't believe it someone I didn't knew or I hadn't forced them to buy every issue at gun point know the vampire shark! It was a pretty amazing feeling. Like this little vampire shark story is gaining steam.

All in all it was a fantastic con and I am really excited about next years.