This past Saturday
I worked a table for Trees & Hills at the Winchester Pickle Festival in my hometown of
Winchester, NH. The sky remained gray all day, with
periodic sprinkles of rain – not ideal for an
uncovered table of paper products, but I bagged &
boarded all the minis to keep them safe (and I never
thought I’d have any use for those things!). The
rain picked up later in the afternoon, causing most of
the vendors (myself included) to pack up early. Still, I
took in enough to pay for the table, and had some nice
conversations with a different crowd from that at a
typical comics or zine event.
Some highlights:
- Selling comics to a man who hadn’t bought any in
43 years.
- Meeting some school-age cartoonists, including a
high-school acquaintance’s son who took one of
Marek Bennett‘s workshops this
summer.
- Eating a “hearty garlic” pickle.
Duty-bound to remain at the table as I was, I missed out on the pickle-eating contest and all the other fun activities. Such is the lot of we who toil for the greater good! Events like this really help us get the word out to all kinds of people who may not already be hip to comics, which is a special pleasure and an important part of the ol’ Trees & Hills mission.
Upcoming: Sunday 10/5 I table for Trees & Hills at the Philly Zine Fest.
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1 Colin Tedford dot com » Blog Archive » Harvest Tour Reports // Nov 13, 2008 at 9:53 am
[...] Daniel Barlow describes our excellent trip to the Boston Zine Fair (and includes photos!), and I report on the Winchester Pickle Festival (with a sketch because I don’t use a camera). I’ll post about my trip to the Philly [...]
2 Visit Me at Winchester Pickle Festival this Saturday | Colin Tedford // Sep 22, 2014 at 10:00 pm
[…] Last time was in 2008, the year before MICE started; luckily MICE (where I’m also tabling) changed its […]
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