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Anime Overload con report!
12 years ago
General
AO was a surprisingly huge success. Anime cons in general are not money makers for me since I don't do much fanart, and this was a very small con in direct competition with RTX. The hotel itself was very nice even though it's in a sketchy part of Austin. You take your life in your hands walking to fast food on Airport or Lamar. The hotel didn't gouge us for food on site. We paid gas station prices instead of hotel prices, but that's a vast improvement over the $8 hotdog I've seen at some cons ^_~
There was some confusion and table shuffling on our end of the hallway at load-in on Friday, but the dealer manager Matt Coats squared everything away. When there was a problem, he was very "I have the solution." And he proudly wore the Dirty Sanchez sticker I put on him, which is just pure evidence that he's a man of character. BTW, Torchy's Tacos is a great way to start a day.
There was great flow all the way down the hallway that Artists Alley was in. For a little while Morgan Meyer and I were worried nobody would come down our side since we were past the Dealer's Room entrance, but that turned out to be a complete non-issue. People came down to see us anyway ^_^ All the event lines started on the wall directly across from us so we had a captive audience several times a day. It also turned out we had the most reliable air conditioning in the hotel. The lobby was always sweltering. The units just could not keep up with people constantly walking in and out with triple Texas digits outside.
PACT! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/p.....client-toolkit
Moriam Art! (Morgan Meyer) http://Moriam.Deviantart.com
Anime Overload! http://animeoverload.net/
Places I will Be!
San Japan (art show staff) August 16 – 18 http://www.san-japan.org/
Worldcon - Lonsetar Con 3 (art show) August 29 – September 2 http://www.lonestarcon3.org/
Dragon*Con (attending, art show) August 30- September 2 http://www.dragoncon.org/
Alamo City Comic Con (attending, dealer) October 25-27 http://www.alamocitycomiccon.com/
There was some confusion and table shuffling on our end of the hallway at load-in on Friday, but the dealer manager Matt Coats squared everything away. When there was a problem, he was very "I have the solution." And he proudly wore the Dirty Sanchez sticker I put on him, which is just pure evidence that he's a man of character. BTW, Torchy's Tacos is a great way to start a day.
There was great flow all the way down the hallway that Artists Alley was in. For a little while Morgan Meyer and I were worried nobody would come down our side since we were past the Dealer's Room entrance, but that turned out to be a complete non-issue. People came down to see us anyway ^_^ All the event lines started on the wall directly across from us so we had a captive audience several times a day. It also turned out we had the most reliable air conditioning in the hotel. The lobby was always sweltering. The units just could not keep up with people constantly walking in and out with triple Texas digits outside.
PACT! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/p.....client-toolkit
Moriam Art! (Morgan Meyer) http://Moriam.Deviantart.com
Anime Overload! http://animeoverload.net/
Places I will Be!
San Japan (art show staff) August 16 – 18 http://www.san-japan.org/
Worldcon - Lonsetar Con 3 (art show) August 29 – September 2 http://www.lonestarcon3.org/
Dragon*Con (attending, art show) August 30- September 2 http://www.dragoncon.org/
Alamo City Comic Con (attending, dealer) October 25-27 http://www.alamocitycomiccon.com/
