{"id":7400,"date":"2022-06-09T04:54:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T09:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2022-06-09T04:54:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T09:54:52","slug":"kc-zine-con-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/09\/kc-zine-con-7\/","title":{"rendered":"KC Zine Con #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to tell y&#8217;all I&#8217;ll be tabling at <a href=\"https:\/\/kczinecon.com\">KC Zine Con<\/a> #7 this Saturday! It was the last con I tabled at in-person before the pandemic began, so it&#8217;s fitting that it&#8217;ll be my return to in-person tabling.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2022-06-09_KCZC7poster.png\" alt=\"Poster for Kansas City Zine Con 7 with the following info: June 11, 2022, 11am to 5pm, in person at Plexpod Westport Commons, virtual at kczinecon.com\"><br \/>\nPoster by local tattoo artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ani.mal.tattoo\/\">Ana Mal<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be at table 19 in between <a href=\"https:\/\/dinobeasts.com\">John Coats<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/redshortsbindery\/\">Thayer NG Bray<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joetrotterart\/\">Joe Trotter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2022-06-09_KCZC7tablemap.png\" alt=\"Map of zinester tables in the 1923 Room at Plexpod Westport Commons\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was a virtual KC Zine Con #6 in Fall 2020 in which I participated, but unfortunately nothing beats cramming a bunch of grubby zinesters and zine enthusiasts into the same physical space. I dream about alternatives to the con model of zine and art comics distribution in North America but I do enjoy hanging out with like-minded people IRL and sharing our passion for cheaper art produced by individual, or small groups of, visionaries. Fortunately the KC Zine Con organizers are taking the health of tablers and attendees seriously by requiring masks for everyone and proof-of-vaccination for tablers. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2022-06-09_me.png\" alt=\"Photo of Will Cardini wearing a disposable face mask\"><br \/>\nThis is what I look like wearing a mask.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This year I&#8217;ll have my newest mini-comic, <i>Reluctant Oracle<\/i> #1, in addition to my 2019 mini-comic <i>Urscape<\/i> #1, my 2017 collection of short comics <i>Tales from the Hyperverse<\/i>, my 2014 graphic novel <i>Vortex<\/i>, and a selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/retrofitcomics.com\">Retrofit Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to tell y&#8217;all I&#8217;ll be tabling at KC Zine Con #7 this Saturday! It was the last con I tabled at in-person before the pandemic began, so it&#8217;s fitting that it&#8217;ll be my return to in-person tabling. Poster by local tattoo artist Ana Mal. I&#8217;ll be at table 19 in between John Coats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[373],"class_list":["post-7400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-fests","tag-kc-zine-con"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}