Category: Generation Geek

Comic Con Baltics 2026

“Let’s do this one more time.”

I got confirmation I’d be back for the 8th installment of Comic Con Baltics back in February, which meant I could build it into my syllabus nicely. This would be my 6th time working for the con and my seventh time attending*. I also got asked if I would do another lecture, like I did last year. Last time, due to the Superman film opening, I did a brief history of the character. This time, we settled on doing the same thing about Spider-Man, knowing the film was coming out this summer.

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Comic Con Baltics 2025

Going into it, I knew this year’s ComicCon was going to be different. Paulius, the guy who had brought me into the fold, wasn’t around anymore. To be fair, he now had two small kids and was working on a PhD, so the months of work which goes into creating a momentous weekend can be a bit overwhelming. Without him, though, I had no point person, so I wasn’t sure what, if anything, I’d be doing at con this year. This manifested by me putting in TBAs in all my syllabi in case I needed to be gone during the final week of the semester.

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Comic Con Baltics 2024

A mere 7 months after our last Con, here we were again, doing it all over. The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? Only this time, the Con was happening the weekend after instruction ended for the semester, but since I had to be there early, that meant I needed to get all my classwork done ahead of time and the last meeting in two different classes had to be cancelled.

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Comic Con Baltics – 2023 Edition

Back in January, when I was in London with Lin, we were lucky enough to attend an after-show party of Mother Goose, the Panto with Ian McKellan. It was a ton of fun and on the way home, Lin asked me if I didn’t miss it. I replied that I did, but I really didn’t want to go back to it full-time. It was fine to enjoy it piecemeal, every now and again.

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Comic Con Baltics 2022

My time working on Comic-Con Baltics 2022 started with working on Comic-Con Baltics 2020, when I interviewed RJ Mitte to announce his attendance. Of course, then COVID hit and everything was postponed.

Then postponed again. And again.

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2020 – Looking back to look forward

shutterstock_710565352It’s strange to think that yet another year has passed, that in the arbitrary marking of the start and end point of the annual circle of the planet around the sun, we’ve come around yet again. But we have and so I’m going to set down some thoughts on the 12 months which just passed and 12 which are in front of us, just to take stock. Continue reading “2020 – Looking back to look forward” →

Comic Con Baltics 2019

Comic_Con_Baltics19.pngSeptember 21-22, 2019, the dates of this year’s Comic Con Baltics, had been on my calendar since probably sometime in April, when I had been invited to come and meet the organizers to talk about the project which would become Generation Geek.

As time went by, several Generation Geek videos were released and I was asked if I would participate in the con itself. Naturally, I agreed. Of course, I didn’t know what I was agreeing to, but sure, I’m game for anything. Continue reading “Comic Con Baltics 2019” →

Manaburnt Podcast – Episode 6: Comics – ManaBurnt

The Manaburnt podcast is back with Episode 6: Comics! I’m featured on this one, along with Diptarup Ghosh Dastidar and our hosts, Areala CG and Alexander Popović. What a fun experience to be part of such a great conversation with particpants from all over the world!

You can also follow the podcast on Spotify here, and they should soon have pages on Apple and Google podcasts! Give it a listen!