wondercon

well I went to wondercon 08 and survived.

I met a lot crazy folks, and some really cool ones as well.

Its tough to sit behind a table with your wares spread out waiting
for each person to make a judgement call on if its any good, and
if its worth what your asking.

I did caricatures in an amusement park when I was in high school and it was one of the
roughest jobs ever. I felt like each interaction was a call on if I was any good or not. Rough for a shy high school kid....but I digress....

back to wondercon....It was also VERY different than APE. APE is a sort of art supportive
crowd, but one that rarely has any money. plus or minus a dollar can
make or break a sale. And even then its a tough sell. I had one dude
struggle over a choice of two items, each of which were a $1. He spent a
good 6 minutes staring at them. I almost just gave him both to free him from
his torment.

Wondercon people seemed to have more cash, but often seemed more there
for the bigger dealers. With that said, I did get my fair share of guys and gals that were super supportive. People gave me great feedback, bought lots of stuff, and were just real fun to chat with. There was even one girl that looked like she just popped out of one of my sketches. I tried not to blurt out something lame about how cool her clothes were while we talked. ^__^

I did manage to make a small profit, despite my having to take a small press table instead of artist alley, and having to pay an extra charge on the books because I waited to long to place my re-order (doh!)

anyways, we had cool neighbors [link] who had some freakin cool stuff, and on the other side a bunch of dudes that worked there asses off promoting bay area hip hop.

well thats all for now. Thanks to those that came out. It ment the world to me to get so much cool support.