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Ok folks, instead of a comical today, thought I’d sit y’all down for a session of what I call “stories from the con”.
So this year is the first time I’ve been back in at a con in a while. But it went pretty good! I brought my 2 friends with me… “minions” if you will. It’s essential to have some folks with you at these things or else bathrooming adventures and selling your wares becomes really hard.
Anywho, of course I had completely forgotten how to get into this place after the last time… which I had trouble finding the parking and loading docks. Totally not my fault that you can’t ever find the front and back of this place!
Oh! And my poor poor sign rig got massively battered over the years. I had some pvc pipe structure that I spray painted with special plastic paint… well… it all flaked off! So my parents had a good idea to use fun duct tape! I got some at the local depot and before long, it was all patterned with wicked mustaches! >{ Quite dashing, I do say!
Friday was a pretty good day. Kinda slow paced, but I wasn’t too worried. Sundays are the slowest, so I figured I’d do my shopping then. Did a once around and made a crazy long list of the junk I wanted, lol! My favorite thing was this Dr.Who bath robe! Unfortunately… or maybe fortunately, Sunday was extraordinarily slammed! So I probably got up only once to bathroom and that’s it.
Speaking of, I noticed a lot of popular trends at this one. In addition to your standard issued Marvel/DC and random anime motifs, seems there was a big shift into Adventure Time, Minecraft, and Dr. Who gear and costumes! And I mean like a lot! My Little Pony was also really big, but not as much as the past year or so. Long story short, I really need to look at what’s super popular before the show and mass produce some wares for sale. I mean, I like Dr.Who a lot, but I didn’t think it had taken such a foothold here. Lessons learned…
As for sales, I did pretty well now that I’m in the right section! Last time I was in the wrong spot… who knew I’d need to be artist alley? lol! The top sellers where those Steamboat pictures! The Mario one in particular. Next up was the “Hang In There Boba” 8x10s! >) Then lots of random stuff. I was a bit disappointed by the lack of Star Wars vs Star Trek posters being sold. From the feedback I heard, people wanted to see specific characters duking it out rather than unknown people. I was kind of avoiding doing that, but maybe for next time it would see more success.
Also, I did some commissions this time! 3 in fact! Below is a picture I did of the person’s Ever Quest character. I also did 2 more for his friend; one was part of his Sesame Street vs Muppets series and the other was a series of faux comic covers of Tarantino movie scenes. Definitely a LOT of fun! I also really really like the idea of having a themed artbook that you take around to all the different artists to get their take on your series. They had some amazing stuff in there!
Oh, and fun story… so apparently I had a dumdum moment when this guy passed by and I thought he was dressed up as Rogue from the awesome band, The Cruxshadows. So I called out and said “nice Rogue costume” very sincerely! I mean, it was totally spot on! Well… he turned around and talked with me for like 15 minutes and I pretty much talked about dumb stuff, like photoshop, lol…….. well…….. turns out the Cruxshadows actually did come to the show and that really was him. I had this bad feeling half way though our conversation that it might have been him and all that night. Turns out I’m just a total doofus. Ah well, at least he was really nice. >)
Well, that’s my story! I’m looking forward to the next Megacon! See ya there in 2014! >D
I’ve changed the layout a bit! I hope you all like it! I figured having all my comics and a bit of archive all in one place would make things much easier for everybody. That way, you can just bookmark Coffin Comics and see all the latest updates on all my sites! Woot! Oh, I also have a new format for my archive (though depending on your response, it might not link to the menu up top). The new archive will have thumbnails of every comic, an excerpt, and a few tags that I’m probably going to slowly update.
So if you’ve reached this page from another link and have no idea what I’m jabbering about, go to the HOME page now!
If you want to check out the new archive page, either click the MORE under the small archive on the home page, or click THIS LINK.
If you absolutely HATE the new main page, you can update your link to my site with http://coffin-comics.jesterbrand.com/new
So… what do you guys think about the changes? I’ll probably keep tinkering with the format for some time to come so that it’s really easy to navigate.
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