Our hometown show, Portland’s own Rose City Comic Con, is coming up on September 19 and 20! LET’S DO THIS THING!
Click through below for the full details!
WHERE WE’LL BE AT THE SHOW
We’ll be hanging our hats at TABLE O9 (Artist Alley, listed in the program as Rachel Edidin). We will have free swag (stickers!) as well as a number of objects for which you can exchange moneydollars (Con-x-clusive t-shirts! Fancypants R&M Year One USBs! Buttons! Rachel’s books and minicomics! The debut issue of the R&MX-PtX-M zine, assuming we can get it together in time!)!
PANELS AND OTHER COOL STUFF:
Here’s the big one: We’re doing our first-ever LIVE SHOW! For real!
Want to be part of Episode 76 of Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men? HELL, YES, YOU DO! And you can, because we’ll be recording it LIVE at RCCC on Saturday, September 19 at 5 PM in Panel Room 5, along with a stunning line-up of surprise guests and what may be our most ambitious topic to date!
You can also catch us on a bunch of other panels across the weekend! Here’s the full line-up:
Saturday:
12:30 PM – Panel Room 4
Looking Past the Target Audience – Fuck, yeah, intersectional diversity! (Rachel)
3:00 PM – Panel Room 5
Away from the Drawing Table – Careers in comics publishing! (Rachel)
5:00 PM – Panel Room 5
Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men – LIVE! – LIVE EPISODE OMG! (Rachel+Miles+[names redacted for spoilers])
8:00 PM – LISTENER MEETUP AND PARTY @ The Steep & Thorny Way to Heaven! (All-ages; details below)
Sunday:
10:30 AM – Panel Room 6
Monsters of Podcasting – The humans behind the disembodied voices in your computer! (Rachel+Miles)
2:00 PM – Panel Room 5
Writing About Comics – Comics journalism and criticism! (Rachel)
(You can find full panel descriptions and lineups–along with the full RCCC programming schedule–over here.)
MEETUP & PARTY:
WHO: Us! You! Our friends! Your friends!
WHAT: Listener meetup and party! All-ages hangouts! Swag! Goofy photo props! Fancy drinks! Live tomfoolery! Fighting to protect a world that hates and fears us! A bowl full of sunglasses!
WHEN: Saturday, September 19, 8:00-10:00 PM
WHERE: The Steep & Thorny Way to Heaven (SE 2nd Ave. between Hawthorne and Madison – See map below)
OTHER PERTINENT DETAILS: Cosplay encouraged! Kids welcome!
OH, HEY, HERE’S A FACEBOOK EVENT! YOU DON’T HAVE TO RSVP, BUT IT WOULD BE SUPER HELPFUL IF YOU DID!
Steep & Thorny is a private club! To get in, let the nice person at the door know that you are there for the X-Men party!
There will be a cash bar with alcoholic (adults only, with ID) and non-alcoholic (everyone) beverages! ADULTS: Please note that this is an all-ages event. If you get drunk and disorderly, we will kick your ass out.
SO MANY THANKS to The Steep & Thorny Way to Heaven for donating the use of their space for this event. If you’re local–or a frequent visitor–and a fan of weird and wonderful art and performance, you should make a point of checking out what they do when they’re not hosting us!
I wish I could come… 🙁
aaaaaaaaaaaaa so jealous
I may actually turn green when I listen to episode 76.
Hope you survive the experience (no Con Plague)!
Between the X-perts and Herald: Lovecratft and Tesla I have double the reason to go! Go local comics folk!
THERE ARE SO MANY REASONS TO GO TO RCCC.
Seriously.
It’s a hella rad show.
I’ve been trolling around on the street view of Google Maps looking for the meet-up site. If I’m at the Dirty Bridge Bistro, where is the meet-up relative to it? Anyone?
Look for wooden steps with a big mural on the front panel.
(It’ll be MUCH more evident when it’s open and there’s an event going on.)
I thought that might be the spot, thanks a lot!
Really excited for this! I am a fellow PDXer, I was wondering if y’all were gonna do a live podcast. Looks like it’s gonna be a thing!!! Woo.
Sadness, frustration & longing that life does not facilitate a trip for the fam to Portland this year. Look forward to the live podcast. Best of luck and fun times yawl!
SLC-Con next year? ComicKaze?
If you can convince them to bring us as guests, sure! That’s the only way it’s really financially feasible to do many shows outside of the Pacific Northwest.
I put Kirby Krackle in for SLC and they’ve been invited this year, (sadly I won’t be there either – things and stuff) so I’ll keep bugging them about you too.
Speaking of KK, enjoy that show for me too, K?