If there was one thing you could say about StarWarp Concepts just a year after we launched as a full-size-comic company, it was that we weren’t shy about our plans to make an impression in publishing!
What you see here is an in-house ad that ran on the back cover of Lorelei, Vol. 1 #3, released in spring of that year. The Legends in the Making Tour, I called it, and matched it with an illustration that “borrowed” heavily from the cover photo of the album Family Style, by blues-and-rock guitarist siblings Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughan (I’m a fan of SRV).
Unfortunately, most of the shows I wasn’t able to attend for some reason or other: Ramapo Comic Con, the Small Press Expo (and it was its debut year, too!), Comicfest, Uticon, Dallas Fantasy Fair, and the Southwest Comic Fest. More than likely the cancellations were due to a conflict with the schedule of my day job and not having enough vacation days. But I did make it to the Great Eastern con (as reported here), SunCon, and Mid-Ohio-Con. And prior to these, I’d appeared at the two-day Pittsburgh Comic Book Convention, in January.
(Funnily enough, my memories are hazy about Mid-Ohio—I remember the round-trip bus excursion, and that it had snowed the day before in Columbus, but not the particulars of the event.)
However, I did make it to the Dallas Fantasy Fair, eventually, in 1995.
Stay tuned for further Convention Memories!
