Very cool! I've already subscribed to Zoie, the art is really stylized and interesting, I love it so far.
I push more online than I do at conventions. There's a bigger audience with a shorter attention span, so I think I feel the need to push more and post everywhere on the internet. At conventions, my husband/co-creator and I just show up and have fun. Most attending fans at conventions are there all day or for the whole weekend, so it's easier to just relax, talk comics and fun things instead of pushing a book (though a casual conversation usually leads to some kind of sale). We give out free mini comics (a short 8 page sample of our comic/our business card), and we usually do free sketch cards for kids. That's been a good way to encourage people to hang out at the table, flip through our comic, and talk while we make them a sketch card and everyone leaves happy. I love conventions. It's a lot of work but it's so much fun!
**business mode* Let me flip this hat like a switch, and give you our elevator pitch! XD
Oops Comic Adventure is:
[Short version] The quest of a young boy to find his family, in a medieval fantasy. Along the way he makes friends with odd characters & learns the true meaning of family.
[Longer version] Oops Comic Adventure is a coming of age story about a young street rat, named Oops, living in the medieval city of Castlebury. With the help of his friend, a giant rat named Plague, they set off on a quest to find his family and where he belongs. His only clue to his past is a broken watch lid with an etching of a forgotten family crest. Through stressful situations like, evading the evil dark King Hectric Tepper's Knights and Hec Hounds, Oops finds that he has magical abilities that burst from him when his emotions reach a boiling point. Gaining friends as he quests, they stand by his side and help him find the answers he seeks.
And Oops is by Jeramy Hobz, my husband, and me, Cyndi Foster. We collaborated completely 50/50, taking his realistic dramatic comic sensibilities and my high energy cartoony style and mashed it together in our comic. Looking to books like; Jeff Smith’s Bone, Bill Waterson’s Calvin and Hobbes, and Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s Avatar: the Last Airbender, we decided that a comic is how we would tell this tale.