Conventional Wisdom

Okay, so is generally a bad idea to wait until the last minute to do anything, just on general principle. But aside from that, I still REALLY messed up with getting my new Artist Alley prints done. For, you see, my waiting until the last minute not ONLY meant that it was getting done right before the con, but it ALSO meant that I was trying to get a huge pile of things printed right before all the schools everywhere had graduation. The store was already so swamped with orders for programs and crap that the entire online ordering system thinggie crashed… as depicted by the giant, rampaging paper monster. Because of COURSE that’s how you depict computer system failure.

But hey, they got done. And not only do I have a whole new stock of things to sell at cons, I’m even gonna start selling some of ’em on the website over the summer! So stay tuned for more on that!

(Historical Notes: I might have my dates mixed up, but I THINK this the time where Staples accidentally game me twice as many prints as I paid for.  I wanted a set of all my stuff in big, poster-sized sheets, and a second set of the same images in smaller, page-sized prints.  The problem was, the dimensions for the two sizes weren’t exactly the same, the big ones were a bit taller and skinnier, so I had to give them two separate images with slightly different dimensions for each design.  In all the confusion, though, they made a rather big oopsie.  Instead of printing one poster-sized run of one set of images and one page-sized run of the others, they just gave me a full run EVERY image in both sizes.  I didn’t even notice until I got to the hotel, but that’s around a hundred dollar’s worth of extra prints that they didn’t charge me for.  Granted, most of them had extra white space on the ends, and SOME had stuff cropped out due to the dimensions being wrong, but most of it was perfectly usable after a quick cutting.  So if you ever got a free poster from me at any point in the following four years, it was probably one of these surprise freebies.)