Why doesn JB appear at comic conventions?
MidOhioCon 2004 is billing your appearance as your last ever. How come? JB: When I first got into the business, I used to look upon conventions as a kind of mini-vacation. I’d go to a con, hang out with folks, meet the fans, and be back at the drawingboard Monday morning. But as years went by, it got to be Tuesday morning. Wednesday. Thursday. Monday — but of the next week. Basically, I found that I was needing more and more “recovery time” after each convention — and that recovery time was time in which the real part of my job, drawing comics, was not getting done. So I weighed the advantages (interacting with a few hundred fans) against the disadvantages (not working on books that are for tens of thousands of fans), and I decided the former did not outweigh the latter. So, after MidOhioCon 2004, no more cons for me.
