Spectra is already an outstanding hit. That’s not too surprising, but one thing that is surprising is that every one fanatically loves our Tesla comics. When we describe how the righteous Nikola Tesla battles the evil, dastardly Thomas Edison at the world fair, people swoon. While the grown up’s love us, the kids go crazy for our “throwies.” We help them build a little LED light using only a battery, bulb, magnet and a Laserfest sticker; which they can wear around on their badges.
Our booth is in the independent press section and our immediate neighbors include Bone (who coincidentally also has a Tesla comic coming out soon), and 7G Studios, a Columbian comic book company who supposedly has created the first Latin American comic book. 7G studios even has a documentary film crew following them at all hours and their videographers seem to like us too. The group of us would often look up to realize there was a camera in our faces and a guy with a 6 foot mic boon standing in front of us.
We’ve already met high school physics teachers, scientists from various fields and even had one APS member try to renew his membership with us. All of them were thrilled to see us here, but the real opportunity for Comicon is reaching the people who we couldn’t of gotten too otherwise. Our comics are well, written, beautifully drawn and scream read me to young people. It’s nice to get praise from colleagues who approve of what we’re doing here, but it’s far more rewarding to see a group of kids literally light up after they’ve built their throwies and walk away clutching a comic book about Nikla Tesla and a laser superhero.
I'm doing engineering outreach to middle school girls with Society of Women Engineers San Diego, and the wonderful guys working your booth gave me a box of comics to hand out at our event coming up on August 7. I seem to have lost their contact information, but I wanted to share this photo I took of them.
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Thanks for sharing the photo Faith. You can email outreach@aps.org to get ahold of the physicscentral crew.
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