May 03, 2015 04:30
I still maintain that neutering stupid should be a law.
Speaking of stupid. . . I noticed Senshi Con has their mascot contest up again. Oh, I am not entering. For one thing it grants them the use, in perpetuity, of an original design for the payment of a table in the artists' alley. . . with NO guarantee that you'd get a decent spot?! HELL. NO. I heard from last year's winner that her table was in a kind of lousy spot. Considering the alley was mostly empty it seemed rather cheap of them.
I had gone by the comic shop to see if they had any other Fruits Basket manga that I was missing and got to talking to one of the managers that I know. He mentioned having gone to Emerald City Comic Con and saw that their alley had plenty of fan art. He thought Senshi Con's fan art policy was ridiculous. A point on which we agree, considering there is a huge convention (Comiket) in Japan completely dedicated to SELLING fan works. Selling. As in making money. 9_9
There is someone new in charge of the art department. Who knows what the rules will be. . . frankly, I doubt I'm still on their mailing list. I had debated getting a vendor's space, just so I could put my FAN ART up and sell it. . . since they didn't care about actual BOOTLEGS. I think it was over $200 last year. Who knows what the price will be this year. At any rate, they are kind of behind on getting the forms up and information out compared to last year. If there is something interesting going on behind the scenes I hope I get to hear about it. :P