Chicago Recap
The Location: It took us forever to find our table on Friday. After much searching, we finally found it on the back wall. At first I was worried, cause that's not exactly optimum positioning to say the least, but on the other hand, it was better than the poor bastards trapped out in the old Gaming Room (a location one group of guys referred to as Antartica). To our Left was Riley Myers, a freelancer who had brought his portfolio to the show, and to our Right were the fine and energetic crew of Panda Rage Press.
The Sales: Sales were good. Good enough that I can get the next book printed without dipping into my personal funds (ching!). Given the fact that I'm an unknown, and our questionable location, we had to sell very, very agressively. Some people don't agree with that sort of thing, but I make no apologies. If people didn't wanna stop at our table, they didn't stop, simple as that. Anyway, we moved all 100 Mini-comics, 12 Painted Hockey Masks, 5 Broken Tea Cup T-shirts, 7 Cactus Joe Shirts, 1 TORC Press Shirt, 10 Cafepress buttons, and a goodly amount of copies of the various issues. "SDF: Crumpled Planet" obvious sold the best, but we managed to move quite a few of the other issues too. Once again, we used our "Craziest Comic at the Con" tagline, and we were disputed on several occassions. We still managed to prove our point to everyone except for one guy. Personally, I think that guy was just in some sort of mood. Regardless, we did really well.
Trades: Man, I scored jack for trades this year. I traded with, like, three people this year. I know I did a ton more trades last year. Anyway, I'll review what I got tomorrow, and put up what info I can.
Purchases: I had very little money this year, so I could only afford one Love and Rockets trade (Poison River), two issues of Luba, and the 4th One Piece movie (on import, of course). Next year I resolve to be less broke going into the show.
Celebrity Sightings: I walked near Mick "Cactus Jack" Foley's autograph table while he was there, but I'm not an autograph hound, so I didn't pester him. Plus, there was a line, and I had only given myself a limited amount of time to shop on Sunday. Also, Jason Mewes passed by our table on Friday. We tried to sell to him, but he only wanted to hit on the Female Model whose booth was near ours. It's too bad, I think "Jay" woulda liked the book.
Costumes: Last, and certainly least, there were as usual, a ton of folks in costume (FunFact: It is virtually impossible to sell to people in costume. Unless they come to you, don't waste your time.). I saw 5 Ghostbusters, 3 Storm Troopers, 1 Bobba Fett, 1 Jango Fett, 1 Darth Vader, 2 Batmans, 3 Night Wings, 1 Marv (from Sin City), 2 Jokers, and a buttload of generic "Goth" folk. This one chick who was dressed up as Phoenix was a friend of the Panda crew, and actually hung out at their table and swapped stories with us on Sunday. Coolest costume of the Con: Somebody was dressed up in a 10 Foot Tall Grim Reaper costume. You could see the damn thing from halfway across the show! Only in Chicago...
The Sales: Sales were good. Good enough that I can get the next book printed without dipping into my personal funds (ching!). Given the fact that I'm an unknown, and our questionable location, we had to sell very, very agressively. Some people don't agree with that sort of thing, but I make no apologies. If people didn't wanna stop at our table, they didn't stop, simple as that. Anyway, we moved all 100 Mini-comics, 12 Painted Hockey Masks, 5 Broken Tea Cup T-shirts, 7 Cactus Joe Shirts, 1 TORC Press Shirt, 10 Cafepress buttons, and a goodly amount of copies of the various issues. "SDF: Crumpled Planet" obvious sold the best, but we managed to move quite a few of the other issues too. Once again, we used our "Craziest Comic at the Con" tagline, and we were disputed on several occassions. We still managed to prove our point to everyone except for one guy. Personally, I think that guy was just in some sort of mood. Regardless, we did really well.
Trades: Man, I scored jack for trades this year. I traded with, like, three people this year. I know I did a ton more trades last year. Anyway, I'll review what I got tomorrow, and put up what info I can.
Purchases: I had very little money this year, so I could only afford one Love and Rockets trade (Poison River), two issues of Luba, and the 4th One Piece movie (on import, of course). Next year I resolve to be less broke going into the show.
Celebrity Sightings: I walked near Mick "Cactus Jack" Foley's autograph table while he was there, but I'm not an autograph hound, so I didn't pester him. Plus, there was a line, and I had only given myself a limited amount of time to shop on Sunday. Also, Jason Mewes passed by our table on Friday. We tried to sell to him, but he only wanted to hit on the Female Model whose booth was near ours. It's too bad, I think "Jay" woulda liked the book.
Costumes: Last, and certainly least, there were as usual, a ton of folks in costume (FunFact: It is virtually impossible to sell to people in costume. Unless they come to you, don't waste your time.). I saw 5 Ghostbusters, 3 Storm Troopers, 1 Bobba Fett, 1 Jango Fett, 1 Darth Vader, 2 Batmans, 3 Night Wings, 1 Marv (from Sin City), 2 Jokers, and a buttload of generic "Goth" folk. This one chick who was dressed up as Phoenix was a friend of the Panda crew, and actually hung out at their table and swapped stories with us on Sunday. Coolest costume of the Con: Somebody was dressed up in a 10 Foot Tall Grim Reaper costume. You could see the damn thing from halfway across the show! Only in Chicago...
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