To be fair, having the display fall over during the con is a WAY bigger concern than whether or not it’ll be convenient to take down after it’s over. That’s why we work so dang hard to get it rock[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Artist Alley
I am not a morning person, but I can force myself to get up pretty early during a con, especially when setting up an Artist Alley table is required. But seriously, who WAS that?
I mentioned last year how people sitting around the lobby with piles of luggage looked like a hobo camp, but that had nothing on the sight of a bunch of Artist Alley tables with suitcases wedged all around them. For[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Game Room was right next to Artist Alley this year, with all the temporary walls up. Generally speaking, I think this was a good call, since it made AA feel less tucked away from everything else. However, it WAS[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It gradually got less weird as the weekend wore on, but for a while it really was tough to find a way behind the tables without walking halfway across the room or climbing over somebody else’s stuff. Also, if you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In retrospect, black ink probably wasn’t the best medium to try and express white cobwebs, was it? But yeah, seeing as how the con actually fell on Halloween this year, we decided to get into the holiday spirit. And NO[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I would TOTALLY do this if I could. One of the big problems with me trying to sell stuff in Artist Alley is always that I can’t, you know, actually stay in Artist Alley all weekend. There’s only so many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Proof that I actually DID spend some time at the table. But yeah, you should totally buy stuff. Like, say, a booklet full of all new Conventional Wisdom comics. That’s totally a thing you should buy. …oh, and nobody tell[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Literally the ONLY way to get a room full of artists to show up anywhere in a timely, organized fashion: offer free food. (Historical Notes: The one reader comment for this page over on on SmackJeeves was in blatant defiance[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For real, I was walking around in this costume all morning, and maybe ONE person noticed it was from Gravity Falls. Then I wander off with the extra hat like a doof, and suddenly EVERYBODY thinks it’s hilarious. There’s at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…