Friday Archive Dive: Moderating a Convention Panel

From October 28, 2008, here are some tips on making a convention panel go well.

A comic-convention panel can be an excellent opportunity to get people excited about your comic, but unless you do a good job of presenting the panel, you're going to wind up boring people. And no one is going to check out your work after you've bored them silly for an hour.

We've all been to the ubiquitous panel in which five cartoonists take turns answering the same question over and over again. They inevitably end up repeating each other's points, constantly flogging their own work, and the result is a droning mess.

Here's the secret to a good panel discussion: It's not what you talk about; it's how you talk about it.

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