http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ho50g6O8-3w

Some of it was novelty, I’m sure. And some of it was my amiable hard-selling technique (more oddness: I sold more standing up than sitting down). Some of it was probably the price (everything was between 50p and £1.50). And some, I hope, was the content.

But, you know, People Love Comics. Even if they’ve forgotten it, or don’t know it, yet.

Stealth Artform GO.

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I think you’re on to something there- with setting up a booth at a arts & crafts show. I’m thinking perhaps that would be a good strategy to undergo for next year’s Sawdust Festival over at Laguna Beach.

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Coat

Some people actually have the nerve to believe that paying their entrance fee entitles them to do more than just get the right to spend more money!

I spoke to one of the “organizers” of the show in the lobby, who apologized for all the problems but, of course, didn’t offer to refund my $18. Needless to say, I’ll be staying away from this particular event in the future!

That’s my best one-day performance yet - even compared to Day One of Brumacon, where I sold out of my zombie comic Vitale (and which had how many thousand attendees?) - and it’s taken me up to about 285-290 comics sold this year. Well, technically, since Caption, in August. But still.

People liked the stickers I had, as well. I gave those out free with the comics, and I’m wondering whether or not to have some badges made with the same slogans. People did ask about t-shirts, though. And posters. I gave one woman a Trixie Biker poster for free, and instantly wished I’d tried to get her to buy a comic. I’d rather people bought comics, of course…

Tabulating my sales figures across Saturday, the Thought Bubble fair in Leeds, and Brumacon, I’m in the position of being able to see what sells and doesn’t sell for the first time (also to whom: most of the people buying my Hondle comics were women). It’s both heartening and disheartening, in that there are books that I think are really good* that aren’t shifting, and olllllld comics that I’d love to retire that people keep buying. Not that I’m complaining, exactly, but I’d rather people saw the best of me than the beginning of me.

I’ve been invited to take part in another one-day fair by Wolverhampton Art Gallery on December 1st. So it’s back to work.

Sorry. That wasn’t entirely relevant. Um…nobody mentioned Heroes…nobody dressed up or looked like anybody…somebody did honk up just outside the building, but that was on Friday night. Sorry. Yay Comics Bought By A Non-Comics Audience, though.

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* - 7/10 in Comics International. Not bad.