Last year at AniMaine, I took my first tiny dip into doing convention panels by teaching people how to play Tanto Cuore, and in addition to doing that again this year, I did my first "real" convention panel! I gave a nearly hour-long presentation that incorporated most of my Azumanga retrospective review with less emphasis on my personal anecdotes and a bunch of new material added about the rise of the slice-of-life comedy and its surprising lasting fandom. I'm hoping to do it at larger conventions in the future with a few minor adjustments and a gradually rotating set of examples of recent fanart that stands out to me as the kind of unusual things this particular fandom makes. Gotta make sure people keep watching and reading this!
For this first round, I'd like to specifically note @itswilliamleonard's "we're all outta green" comic and @samantaraiolaser's papercraft Kaorin as two of my favorite things I've seen this year.
