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⌈ Secret Post #2958 ⌋

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Comments

Re: fandom frustration

[lb_lee]

Hmm, depends, what you selling?

I'm in kinda a weird position in most comic cons because I have a niche genre: educational mental health comics. So big cons are actually BAD for me, because nobody comes to SDCC to buy a comic about dissociation, you know what I mean? Also, because my comics are educational, I want as many people to get them as possible, so I sell them as CHEAPLY as possible. None of my comics cost more than $5 these days. One day, I hope to have a comic with fancy things like a spine or color, but not for a while.

Even if I were to completely sell out of every comic I can carry, I would not make more than $300. So I focus mostly on axing my overhead and getting into the cheapest cons I can, because if I only have to shell out $20 for a table and it's within walking distance, well then, I can afford to gamble. But I could never afford to go to, say, SPX. I literally COULD NOT make back the cost of going!

This means I often end up at weird little podunk cons purely because I manage to schmooze my way in at the last minute, hitch a ride, or find crashspace that makes it affordable for me to go.

Since I'm recovering from an eating disorder, I'm on a pretty strict meal plan, and have strict hours. Another system member WILL force-feed me if I try and resist. If new people come by, well, I just have to mumble at them through a face full of sandwich.

--Rogan

Re: fandom frustration

[(Anonymous)]

I mostly sell my artwork and occasionally books, I'm usually sell stuff between the $5 to 20 dollar range, my prices never go too high because I'm usually mainly trying to make back table and travel costs.

I sell fairly well, I have enough of a following that people come to conventions to see me but I haven't done anything significant enough that a convention would invite me for free (well I did get one invite once, but it was for a small convention that was rather far from me, and getting into the convention for free wouldn't really have made a difference with all those travel costs.)

I just never know where to go since I'm not hugely into the convention scene, a lot of the stuff I had recommended to me for this year I missed the deadline for, and people ask me if I'm going to cons all the time and I'm just like "I don't know! I'll try!" Plus I never want to go through the exhaustion mentioned earlier if it's not going to be worth it.

I've never been to a convention with super cheap tables though and I'd love to try one, for some reason even our "independent comics" convention here is SUPER expensive on table costs. It sucks.

Re: fandom frustration

[lb_lee]

Ugh, that does suck. At least I have a sort of aesthetic that the zinesters and hipsters can enjoy; zine fairs are the CHEAPEST fairs on earth, I swear. I was at one con where ALL the tables were free, bless 'em.

That was Ephemera Zinefest, which was in Kentucky and I did fantastically at, for such a short tiny con (it was maybe five hours total). MICE is my standby; tables these days cost $50, I think? That's in Boston, a two-day con. I also did SPACE in Columbus, OH. That was $50 for a two-day table, and even though I had to cough up for bus fare and a hostel room, I made all that back, so totally worth it.

Those have been my big successes so far.

It helps that I know a lot of comics creators in Boston, so I am pretty well hooked in to the New England comics con scene, and can pretty quickly get involved. (And take tables from last-minute cancels, ohoho!)

Since you're doing art and stuff, you might see it worthwhile to do more general geek cons--if you're in New England, Conbust might be worth checking out, or Paint and Pixel or MECAF.

--Rogan