After KingCon!!!

It was a really, really long day yesterday. I got to the Con location early (aways early) and humped my gear inside to find a amazing NYC like building, very retro/brick. Supposedly it used to be a old bath house. Very cool, BUT very small. They had all the tables back to back, which left vendors very little room to sit or sell or do anything. Anyway, I ran into Shawn (old HS/College) pal who has some great work for sale also.
The show was pretty good, modest turnout of customers and I even made sales of my books, shirts, and prints. It could always be better, but I left satisfied. Things learned, until the economy turns around or at least better than it is sales for this kinda of stuff will be limited. I also have to figure out where and when I will buy a table at these conventions. I talked to Shawn and Carl about pooling our resources for road trips to other conventions next year. I also talked to a guy who is convinced that the Ipad/Kindle/others will revolutionize the field. He maybe right. I will have to research that more, I think the potential is vast. Another Con more experience.


PS one of the pics is of "Cat Boy" a very strange character that all but fell in love with Danny...

King Con Nov 6th 2010

I am gearing up to attend the Brooklyn King Con Nov 6th. It should be a smaller/better/friendlier venue than the NYCC. I am really looking forward to it, and I hope sales, interest, and contacts will be better. Along side me will be Danny Hellman artist extrodinare so I will not be alone. Hoping lessons learned will help, it should be fun!

NYComic Con!

Its official, I will be at the 2010 NY Comic Con! My company (Its a one man operation) will be in the small press area of the Javis Center. Whoever reads this, if you go to the Con, please stop by and say hello! You might win a Original Smashed Infants or Warmachine T-Shirt!

On the business side, this is a costly adventure, the cost of the table, t-shirts, copies of both books, and a banner + parking. For those thinking about self publishing, or something, I look at it like this. Where else am I going to have a chance to face 80,000 new customers. "Just do it!" Doesn't just apply to Nike. It should apply to you. Take a chance, don't just wait for a opportunity to come to you. You make it happen. That's what I've been doing different this year. In January I wanted this year to be different from every other year. So I'm taking a chance! So should you!

Creeping...

The campaign continues, I have created ads in Facebook, posted links on DeviantArt, and created a half assed website. Everything is linked to each other. All to drive people to the Amazon book pages. I don't know what kind of response I was expecting, I don't know if I'm doing about what is expected or that I'm being unrealistic. I've sold some books, more Warmachine than Infants, which is surprising since Infants generally gets more views. There was a great customer review of the Infants, which I'm sure will help. I guess I really need feedback. I've been too close to this project for so long that I don't know if its any good or not. On that note I'm having fun writing the follow up book to Warmachine. Noway near finished or even a complete draft yet but its slowly coming together. I also joined another review site and hopefully they will be kind and favorable with their reviews. Its a very slow, but cool process. I've never been this far into my dream before...

Marketting week two...

So the campaign continues. This week I studied some more at the createspace discussion broads and it was recommended that I create a website to support my books. I looked which sites were the best and went with Yahoo again. I used them once before for my ill-fated sticker company. So I created a website in minutes and linked the whole mess to the Amazon book pages. Its thought that this might help sales...I don't know. It in part seems like a added expense, and I am not really happy with the limitations with the site. Anyway I sold two more books, which is good. I think I am a long way from my fantasy of selling hundreds or thousands. But who knows its out there.

World conquest!

Just to let anyone stumbling past this blog, that I now have two graphic novels for sale through Amazon.com. It's been a long road to get here, art school, years of trying to break into the business, days of self doubt. But now thanks to technology the chance to self publish (without printing thousands of dollars worth of copies) is here. I published both books Warmachine and the Smashed Infants through Createspace.com. So far its been a very good experience for me, but now the books are up the hard work begins. Marketing and selling my self and my work. This is new ground for me, but I am learning fast.