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Dragon*Con Report!
12 years ago
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Dragon*Con Report
D*C is stupid huge and if you want to go anywhere on Saturday, you are out of luck ^_~
There was a ton of great art in the Art Show. Bidding was slow in general and mostly reserved for originals. There was a cluster of Buy It Nows on Saturday from the 1 day pass people. Sunday was a zoo; a very busy trade of after auction prices. I did not attend the auction, so I'm unsure what the trend was with the audience there.
My print sales were dead on my average for a 2 panel art Show. I did sell the originals of the Insect Cat Series, which boosted my overall sales. Some inconsiderate person took my business card holder (with its glued on business card) when I ran out instead of writing down the information or checking back for a refill :( Apparently this happens often, since Anne had a stack of acrylic card holders that she let me borrow to replace mine. Lesson learned: plain card holder and a panel top banner for when it's empty.
As usual I attempted to speak to the other artists, and also as usual failed miserably. I pretty much whimpered "You're cool" to Todd Lockwood and Brenda Lyons (Windfalcon) before slinking away into continued obscurity ^_~ I did succeed at talking to Drew Baker! Our shared experience of working on L5R cards gave me something actually useful to say... and Brian holding my shoulders so I couldn't run away helped. I tried several times to say hi to Christy Nickolas (Greendragon) but I always managed to come by when she was eating or in a panel.
My personal highlight was of course seeing Bill Corbet (voice actor of Crow T. Robot, Brain Guy, and himself on Rifftraxx). My raging MSTie was barely contained. He did a podcast called Bill Corbet: Unlisceneced Life Coach in which he basically helped nerds with mild problems by making fun of them. It was very tongue in cheek. He is almost done with Super Powered Revenge Christmas which I am really looking forward to. I may have to do fanart for an unyet published comic ^_~
I did not make it to the fur meet, because the Sheraton was in no way accessible to my aching feets.
On Sunday we went to the Georgia Aquarium because Brian doesn't understand my obsurd obsession with David Warner. That is a gorgeous aquarium. FOUR WHALE SHARKS! FOUR! I was ocean nerding all over the place. By the time we'd gone all the way around to the Amazon wing, all the breeders had shown up. The crowd was too dense for me to enjoy that last bit, and I was tempted to slap every PARENT who was banging on the glass. The kids were better behaved.
Overall we had a great time. I really like the Peach Tree area of Atlanta. The MARTA is stuck in the 70s, but it ran efficiently and got us to and from the airport with no problems.
Places I will Be!
Alamo City Comic Con (attending, dealer) October 25-27 https://www.alamocitycomiccon.com/
Ikkicon (art Show) December 27-29 http://ikkicon.com/
D*C is stupid huge and if you want to go anywhere on Saturday, you are out of luck ^_~
There was a ton of great art in the Art Show. Bidding was slow in general and mostly reserved for originals. There was a cluster of Buy It Nows on Saturday from the 1 day pass people. Sunday was a zoo; a very busy trade of after auction prices. I did not attend the auction, so I'm unsure what the trend was with the audience there.
My print sales were dead on my average for a 2 panel art Show. I did sell the originals of the Insect Cat Series, which boosted my overall sales. Some inconsiderate person took my business card holder (with its glued on business card) when I ran out instead of writing down the information or checking back for a refill :( Apparently this happens often, since Anne had a stack of acrylic card holders that she let me borrow to replace mine. Lesson learned: plain card holder and a panel top banner for when it's empty.
As usual I attempted to speak to the other artists, and also as usual failed miserably. I pretty much whimpered "You're cool" to Todd Lockwood and Brenda Lyons (Windfalcon) before slinking away into continued obscurity ^_~ I did succeed at talking to Drew Baker! Our shared experience of working on L5R cards gave me something actually useful to say... and Brian holding my shoulders so I couldn't run away helped. I tried several times to say hi to Christy Nickolas (Greendragon) but I always managed to come by when she was eating or in a panel.
My personal highlight was of course seeing Bill Corbet (voice actor of Crow T. Robot, Brain Guy, and himself on Rifftraxx). My raging MSTie was barely contained. He did a podcast called Bill Corbet: Unlisceneced Life Coach in which he basically helped nerds with mild problems by making fun of them. It was very tongue in cheek. He is almost done with Super Powered Revenge Christmas which I am really looking forward to. I may have to do fanart for an unyet published comic ^_~
I did not make it to the fur meet, because the Sheraton was in no way accessible to my aching feets.
On Sunday we went to the Georgia Aquarium because Brian doesn't understand my obsurd obsession with David Warner. That is a gorgeous aquarium. FOUR WHALE SHARKS! FOUR! I was ocean nerding all over the place. By the time we'd gone all the way around to the Amazon wing, all the breeders had shown up. The crowd was too dense for me to enjoy that last bit, and I was tempted to slap every PARENT who was banging on the glass. The kids were better behaved.
Overall we had a great time. I really like the Peach Tree area of Atlanta. The MARTA is stuck in the 70s, but it ran efficiently and got us to and from the airport with no problems.
Places I will Be!
Alamo City Comic Con (attending, dealer) October 25-27 https://www.alamocitycomiccon.com/
Ikkicon (art Show) December 27-29 http://ikkicon.com/
