Fanart stuff
I've been sick with a fever and away from the internet for the last few days, but from what I'm reading on Twitter, fanart was brought up during the Nick Simmons comic controversy. I'm baffled even why it was brought up. I caught up at Simon Jone's blog on the matter. He brings a class act to the subject and the following comments are broad enough to read what else the internet says about it.
This is a topic artists and fans already have their own strong beliefs in and won't change their minds on. Including myself. This isn't going to be a "you're wrong, I'm right" post, but I haven't read any opinions that are like mine yet. (If there are, please point them to me!)
Obviously, I love doing fanart and fanbooks. I dislike making money off of them. It comes a lot from America's intense sense of protecting copyrights, I suppose. I shouldn't make money off of someone else's work. (Though, the gray area begins when getting a commission or stand alone analog piece of someone else's character: as long as it's personal use only, it's alright. But that's an American comic culture tradition! Cue hypocrisy!) All of my fanbooks are sold at cost of the printing/s&h, the extra goodies like the postcards, are freebies.
For all these years, I couldn't justify traveling across states to an anime con for the artist alley, because I won't sell them anymore than the cost of producing them. (Also, my fandoms are so tiny, I kinda doubt I'd sell much, lol) It's too much of a money loss.
But now that I'm apart of Goodbye Chains, I'm excited to begin to attend anime cons. Meeting fans, fellow fans of the fandoms I'm apart of (I hope there are, lol), fellow artists...! Not only I could possibly make some con money back with GC, I'll have a chance to share the fan goods.
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Speaking of anime cons, I was planning to attend my first anime con: Anime Vegas! Unfortunately, I probably can't--it's a few days before SPX. :( HOWEVER, I'm considering to attend for maybe the first day before I head over to the east coast. And as of now, SPX is not confirmed because I have yet to get a confirmation from them.
Still up in the air is APE--Alice won't be able to come with me and at this point I'm too much of a wimp to go by myself. (lol) But we'll see.
This is a topic artists and fans already have their own strong beliefs in and won't change their minds on. Including myself. This isn't going to be a "you're wrong, I'm right" post, but I haven't read any opinions that are like mine yet. (If there are, please point them to me!)
Obviously, I love doing fanart and fanbooks. I dislike making money off of them. It comes a lot from America's intense sense of protecting copyrights, I suppose. I shouldn't make money off of someone else's work. (Though, the gray area begins when getting a commission or stand alone analog piece of someone else's character: as long as it's personal use only, it's alright. But that's an American comic culture tradition! Cue hypocrisy!) All of my fanbooks are sold at cost of the printing/s&h, the extra goodies like the postcards, are freebies.
For all these years, I couldn't justify traveling across states to an anime con for the artist alley, because I won't sell them anymore than the cost of producing them. (Also, my fandoms are so tiny, I kinda doubt I'd sell much, lol) It's too much of a money loss.
But now that I'm apart of Goodbye Chains, I'm excited to begin to attend anime cons. Meeting fans, fellow fans of the fandoms I'm apart of (I hope there are, lol), fellow artists...! Not only I could possibly make some con money back with GC, I'll have a chance to share the fan goods.
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Speaking of anime cons, I was planning to attend my first anime con: Anime Vegas! Unfortunately, I probably can't--it's a few days before SPX. :( HOWEVER, I'm considering to attend for maybe the first day before I head over to the east coast. And as of now, SPX is not confirmed because I have yet to get a confirmation from them.
Still up in the air is APE--Alice won't be able to come with me and at this point I'm too much of a wimp to go by myself. (lol) But we'll see.