I was proud to do the art for this, but unfortunately they didn't give me credit for it in the conbook and then didn't give me anything as payment. I don't mean monetary payment, I mean recognition. But even still, they wouldn't even discount a table for me the next year...

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6-25-2021 Yes, ten years later and I'm still upset. Let me explain how fucked up this convention was, directly towards me...
This is something that has negatively affected me quite a lot.

I didn't at that time, and still don't, get out and do much, and I was completely focused on the furry fandom at that time. To say this was a huge deal to me would be an understatement. For anyone else it's just a dumb thing of furry conventioning, for me it was my livlihood..
Sure my art was on the front of the book, but my NAME was LEFT OUT OF THE CONBOOK . In the book on the art credits page, it has everyone's name listed but mine. It lists everyone's names, even individuals that had drawn black and white images that lined the sides of pages, they were all credited. And then it says "And many more.." I'm literally the only name left out...

I contacted them to try to get some kind of recognition thrown my way for OFFERING THE COVER ART... They refused to do anything about it for the next year, to at least make up for it. Get this... Their only offer that they weren't budging any more on was to put my name and a link to my comic on the conventions site.. two links deeper INTO the site mind you. And just to let you know, it was basically a dead site at that point. Nobody was going to it since the convention was over with!

I checked my numbers, I got practically no hits out of it. In other words: Nobody saw it. Compare that to at least having my NAME in the same book along others that had fully drawn to black and white sketches that lined the sides of pages throughout the book.. I was hurt. I still am.

They didn't even save a badge of my own art for me even though I was going to the convention. They were so excited to have my art, and knew I was coming since I was local. But I got there and they were all out of the ones with my own art on it and refused to do anything about it. It's not like there was any real owing of this, but add in the fact that when I went thru the conbook while at the convention I was nearly in tears AT the convention, it was too much for me. Being left out, all the while those that contributed the rest of the art throughout the book getting recognized in the art credits.. I have to repeat this.. It hurt me..

For me it was a piece of history, a huge piece of personal memorabilia that ended up being a painful insult and a waste of time and energy..

When corresponding with them over emails on what could possibly be done to make up for this, they misspelled my name in the email they sent back, all the while downplaying everything that happened. In addition to having my name left out of the book, nobody else that I knew in person or online understood how much it affected me. In fact they blatantly boasted about going the next year.. Some friends..

But here's the part that made what happened into a permanent bad memory and lasting damage...
While talking with someone who worked at the convention on facebook, they offered to "put my name in the hat" for convention guest of honor, so it got me excited again (stupid me for even remotely feeling like that would have gone anywhere) And then shortly after that in the same conversation that person started to flirt with me and "RP" inappropriate actions to me. I told them that wasn't cool, and their response was "Oh, well (insert prior guest of honor furry artist name here) is okay with it!" to which I had to tell them "I am not that person!"

Seriously: WHAT.. THE.. FUCK???


I cannot tell you how much that entire experience dealing with the people at that convention has damaged me as a person, and as an artist in the furry fandom. This is why shortly after that, around late 2011, it became a more difficult struggle again. I was knocked down quite a few notches in emotions since then and still affects me to this day.
It took two years from that point for them to finally put an ad in the .. I may be misremembering this part... I think it was their 2013 conbook? To my comic site. Something that isn't even near what I wanted. An ad isn't the same as an art credit in something that was important that I participated in. The damage was already done though. After all was said and done I was definitely done.. Despite the too little, too late attempts, I feel cheated. I was cheated.

Look, I already feel like I'm perpetually on the fringe of everything and this pushed me right out of wanting to have anything to do with the furry fandom. The only solace I have now about this whole memory that won't go away is knowing that convention imploded under its own stupidity run by idiots long ago. And since I'm still hurt by what happened, it's not enough. But it has to be... The damage to my self-esteem has remained. I do not know how I'll get over this, even with so many years that have passed. For me to be directly hurt, denied any kind of recognition and then thrown by the wayside, then to get the pseudo offer of being guest of honor only to follow by being sexually harassed, and then go thru a year and a half of getting them to get their head out of their ass to do SOMETHING... all from a local convention that I wanted to support in a fandom that I struggle to even keep my head above water in.. It was too much for me..

I'll put it like this: it was a terrible, emotionally jarring and scarring time to put up with those people being bumbling fucking idiots.
I can only guess that them living with their own idiocy.. it was a Tuesday..

Fuck you, RMFC, and your whole dumbass staff. I hope you people are rotting in hell, you fucking bastards.