I have been giving considerable thought to bringing Hubris to various conventions around this country and Canada (Hey, Allan!) and so I’ve dipped my toe in, locally. Didn’t gamble much in the way of merchandise or table time, but it was fun, and I think there are a few new readers since then (Hey, guys!)
Here’s me at MidSouthCon-
I had some books to sell, a skateboard to sell, and lots of stickers to give out, along with some original pencil sheets for anyone who acted truly interested. I’d also like to point out that the outlandish buckskin jacket I was wearing was complimented more and more thoroughly at the convention than it has been for ten years prior.
There weren’t a lot of sales made, and it was tricky to keep the attention of the Convention-goers. Comic strips aren’t always the biggest hit at Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Comic book events. Comic Strips are for a different kind of reader. Some of you might take that as a compliment or as an insult when I point out that the convention-goers I was speaking to looked like this:
And like this:
Did the theme cons for quite a while, those were mild Greg. 🙂 Hope you had a blast though!
Dude! I wish I had been by your table when you were there. I did snag a sticker (which is now adorning the Car Eater™ bumper on my Jeep http://on.fb.me/ZM5Jpn) so that I would remember the name of the comic. I am so glad I did.
I used to go to SF and Fantasy cons back in the mid-70’s and 80’s. They hadn’t gotten mainstream yet, and cosplay wasn’t common. For the most part, people were there to meet authors, get new books to read, and have an excuse to drink and party. Comics weren’t big back then, either. But, we were much more likely to attack cosplayers as being media-soaked, uninspired posers.
There were still memorable moments in that era… a lady that was in a very bright colored teddy and was about 150# more than should be in one those, wandering the dealer room aisles, and decided to peruse the books in the special cases that fit under the edge of the banquet table around his corner-of-the-aisle setup, so she laid down on her side in the aisle showing us all expansive swaths of pasty white celluite… and nobody could get around her… (and she ws right in front of my table) Lovely lady, actually, really nice person, why she had to wander the con like that though, her friends should have intervened….