>>84164912Well, to be fair, I originally interpreted his post as he doesn't really want to go, because he doesn't know what they're for.
Sure. Going as a creator and handing out cards and stuff is a good way of getting word out. Really, when you boil cons down, pretty much every one there is into the same shit, and probably willing to talk to you.
I've actually gone to cons as well, as a seller/creator, with a table. I even went with some friends.
We really didn't make shit, money-wise. And we handed out cards, links to our comics, and all sorts of free shit, and I could probably count on one hand the number of actual people from the con end up even coming to our sites and read our comics later on.
Really, the truth we found out about cons is that people really DO mostly only want to buy fanart, or buy shit based on characters they know.
People were interested in our own stuff, but most were just looking, and few were buying. We started to talk a little more with them, and the said that the art and presentation of everything was nice, but they weren't buying because "they aren't familiar with the characters." And we would explain that they weren't existing characters, but our own stories and characters. That was the first con (that I went to)
The second one I went to, we put up tons of fanart shit for sale, and did commissions, and sold a lot more.
Basically, its true that people don't really give much of a shit about your original works at a con. But they'll buy a good piece of artwork of an existing character they like.
