Convention Tips #433…
Did any of you go to the Baltimore Comic Con 2010 show this past weekend? I had a table there and this is a brief little re-cap of my experiences Saturday and Sunday…
I want to first start out by saying I had gone to the previous 7 Baltimore Comic Cons as a fan – when it was the ONLY Comic Book Convention in town. I even went to the post-poned and delayed 9/11 show years ago when air travel was sparse and the show joined forces with SPX… It’s only been the last three years that I’ve had an artist alley table so I think I’m uniquely qualified to say this year was the biggest I’ve ever seen the show… bigger names, more artists…
I will also go on the record and predict that within the next five years, I would be SHOCKED if they don’t expand show to three days, ala Heroes Con. If you saw the crowds that were lined up AROUND THE ENTIRE CONVENTION CENTER on Saturday morning, you know there is a demand for such a thing. But Baltimore can be expensive – at least in terms of parking around the Convention Center, so we’ll see.
The First Day (Saturday):
Actually, my Baltimore Comic Con started about a week before as I took up my good friend, Tyler James’s advice and offered pre-con commissions for $20 as I was increasing my price by $10 this year. Three people took advantage of that so I had a lot of work to do leading up to the show. Plus, since I only have a single book to sell for now, I knew I needed something “new” on my table so I decided to put a sketchbook mini-comic together and sell that.
The combination completing a couple of freelance gigs I had that week, working on the commissions and putting the mini-books together made the week extremely hectic for me & I didn’t get everything done until about 2:30am Friday night.
I live 90 minutes outside of Baltimore so the plan was to get up and be out the door by no later than 7:00am Saturday morning. That would have put me into Baltimore by 9:00am at least
