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Con very slow. Two reasons: (1) the economy, so all cons are slow this year. (2) the dealers' room and artist alley is over in the Conference Center, all the panels are over in the hotel, and to get from one to the other requires going up one floor to get to the parking garage, and then going down one floor to get to the skyway to the convention center. Hence people don't hang out in the AA or dealers' room between panels, and don't do impulse shopping.

Also, the AA and dealers' room are in the same space, so they both shut down at 7, so the AA people can't pick up sales and commissions by staying late, after the main programming. I have finally hit the break-even point, but probably won't be making much of a profit here this year. Will reserve judgement as to next year until later.

Had another very nice dinner in the hotel restaurant tonight, and got carrot cake to go. Of course the very nice young man who waited on me didn't pack any UTENSILS with it, so I am resorting to using two coffee stirrers like chopsticks to eat this because I don't want to go downstairs and badger them.

Now I have to get offline and finish a commission I picked up - I normally don't do them at cons, but the sales were so slow I threw up a commissions sign just to get some extra cash.

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Wow o_O That sounds like a really weird set-up...What con is it?
Maybe all the artists should get together and complain so they'll improve it by the next con...since after all, you do pay for the table >_>; ( not to mention con entrance fees just to sit there too, right? )

Goodluck with the commission! I could never take commissions if I did artist alley again, I'm far too slow XD...

Tokyo in Tulsa. Its second year, I think, so there's always kinks to be ironed out.

That's a lousy set-up.

What's the commission?

Guy's RPG character that he started writing a story about. A catgirl who's half demon (so red eyes) standing with her hellhound friend.

I'd be cautious about next year too. From what I'm reading the economy's not supposed to take an upswing for at least two years.

I've gone to a lot more cons this year than ever before, and *overall* I'm making more money, but each con is much less than it would have been last year o the year before. So it's still a decision as to whether the hassle for each individual con is worth it. Hrm.