C2E2 2010 re-cap

"Jack" at Campe

"Nobody can pass this up"

Chicago: a city built on legendary mob rule, abattoirs and a perpetually green river.  A city whose inhabitants are notoriously big shouldered and hardened by schizophrenic weather and constant sports-related failures.  Some might call Chicago a jaded city.  You could’ve fooled us, when we set ourselves up at C2E2 at McCormick Place over the past weekend.  While the volume of attendance may’ve been modest, the enthusiasm over the material was innumerable.

While Reed Productions billed the event as “San Diego Comic-Con comes to Chicago!” you might want to see another opinion here.  Not ones to dwell on the negative though (don’t let our grotesque posters fool you, there’s always a silver lining, even if it’s a woman getting the smack down from Der Fuhrer in Hitler! – she got to meet an extremely important historical figure!), we were definitely pleased with the level of excitement and surprise the Midwest had for what we had to offer.  “Jack” was interviewed by two separate camera crews (footage from both can be found in the Haute Campe blog as soon as it’s made available) and it didn’t hurt that we got a few posters into the homes and onto the walls of more than a few locals.

Five dollar slices of pizza – rather, five dollar pizza slices the first day and $5.58 the next two – and a lack of carpet in the booth (in more ways than one) couldn’t extinguish our eagerness to bring the sleaze.  A few of the highlights:

The guy who loved "the Girl who Loved Swastikas"

- One lucky convention patron was thoroughly yet expediently corrupted by us. After picking up the Ordered to Love reprint, he went on a Naziploitation binge, returning later with a copy of Hansi: the Girl who Loved the Swastika and requiring only a nudge (a nudge that literally sounded like, “Can you live with this in your house?”) before splurging on the poster The Life of Hitler.

"Jack" and Little Tom

- Company mascot “Tom” (not to be confused with Father Negovan) was also quite a draw.  This hand-sculpted and painted piece of wooden zombie fascism was a mystery to us here Haute Campe, but definitely fit the scheme of things.  Thanks to the many – and we mean many – knowledgeable fans who informed us of our mascot’s origin: SHOCKWAVE!

In closing, we wish to thank the attendees who came out from not only Chicago, but all over the Midwest – and further still!  Thank you for making what could’ve been a difficult and dismal show an entertaining one.

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