Alex Heberling

I finally got back to Ohayocon this year! I didn’t make it in last year, when they started doing the jurying/portfolio reviews for Artist Alley, and I wasn’t expecting to be able to attend this year, since I didn’t submit early enough and had been on the waiting list, but at the beginning of [...]

Last month, I went to Steel City Con in Pittsburgh, PA.  As you will no doubt have read in Pete, Kez, and Trevor’s con reports, the weekend didn’t go that great, but the company was what made it an awesome trip despite all that.
Firstly, this convention was mis-marketed.  It really wanted to be a comics [...]

I spent the week of November 2nd-7th at the ISCA annual convention, held this year at the Kalahari convention center in Sandusky, Ohio.  It was… an incredible week.  A week that would’ve been much better had I not caught a cold over the weekend at Youmacon.  It’s true, I was sick all week, which hampered [...]

After hearing many good things about Youmacon over the years, I was finally able to go!  Between Youma and Sugoi, which have been on the same weekend for at least the last two years, Youma’s artist alley registration was open first, so that determined my choice between the two cons.  And I actually stayed with [...]

On September 19th, I attended Toonfest in Marceline, MO.  Marceline was the childhood home of Walt Disney, and legend has it that Marceline was “where Walt found the magic.”
I found out about Toonfest when some of their organizers were at the Toon Award Exhibition to promote the event, and when it turned out there were [...]