Well another Emerald City ComicCon is done and I had a great time. I met several creator’s, albeit briefly who’s work i have been admiring for some time including, Spike, Danielle Corsetto and Cory Bing. I sold some books… not enough to call it a success but I passed out a lot of business cards so all was good. This year will be the last time I do the Cartoonists Northwest Booth, for a while I thought being in the booth would be better, I had gotten a little fed up with Artist’s alley two years ago and decided being with my group in a more central location would be better for me. Of course last year the booth turned out to be a high traffic spot…. the way a 7-11 on Aurora is a high traffic spot, and the artist alley area turned around and stopped being the ghetto iit had been for the first few years.
I probably should have learned my lesson then and there and gone back but frequently these things leave me so burnt out it felt better to go with the flow and continue with the status quo. So this year the booth was a little better bu it was a little too close to the media section so while it had good traffic it was the kind of traffic that doesn’t stop to look at your display or your merchandise.
Still it was fun. While I didn’t sell as much as I’d like I passed out a lot of promotional cards and got a chance to walk around a little bit. As always the people watching is always the best part of this thing with the most popular costumes being Dr. Horrible and Deadpool. There were a few hectic moments of course, most notably my having to go back home Sunday morning because I forgot my cashbox and then on the way back downtown the bus I was on got a flat tire. But other than that, all went well.
With any luck I’ll recover by the end of the week.
