I survived Poriconi 2023
Like said I left with Her to Pori for Poriconi, a comics, scifi, fantasy, horror, RPG convention. Free of charge one-day DIY punk attitude jamboree.
The place, culture house Annis is in my opinion better for it than the local main library. I had way too little time to shop and meet folks as someone who does construction work for living I had plenty to do aa all-around staff ( and me and Her did not expect to run the kitchen for everyone too) and doing interviews and hosting the most chaotic comics gameshow I know.
This is me, in the kilt, interviewing Milla Paloniemi about her comics career: 20th anniversary of Kiroileva Siili ( cursing hedgehog) and other works.
There was " the Stephen King of Finland" horror author Marko Hautala
He is great, the ponytailed gentleman on right interviewed by Vesa Kataisto. Hautala has work published in english and in german besides Finnish.
Kari Sihvonen did a scifi graffiti art wall.
They run beta-testing for new "Powerfantasy OSR on steroids" that I missed out but sounds good but one highlight I got to attend was viewing of two short films. The Batman fan film Crime Alley was not bad but to me the main attraction was
This short nigh silent film about three generations of men, of War and of carage rock luchadore Superhero uniting these themes was great. See if you can.
We saw it presented by Black Peider himself
An absolute gem.
The Many faces of Phantom lecture by Petri Hiltunen was totally groovy and proof that factual can make people laugh out loud.
Managed to get far too little comics due working with running stuff but finally got Päiväkirjani ( My dear diary) comics by friend Mikael Mäkinen
Here telling folks to buy it. It tells about Mikael's day to day life living with ADHD, depression and fighting ninjas. As one does. And yes I am a side-character in #0 as " the one-eyed werewolfpirate"
So now I am a comics character. Right.
Some comics, books, DVD movie and huge Batman Dark Knight Rises framed poster was the loot.
No injuries. I may have promised to do this again. And to do some comics. I just do not learn. But that is fine
