Author: harknell

In my recent post I spoke about how guests at cons should think deeper about their relationship with cons and how they can benefit by this, in this article I will reverse this situation and talk about how con staff should view and treat their guests.

I outlined in the previous article the basic economic truth that cons see guests as a monetary investment. Guests are there (theoretically) to draw more attendees and money to the con. So in many cases cons start to see and treat guests as "employees", or even as objects to be sold.

When was the last time you thought that being seen as an employee or as an object inspired you to greatness? Or really made you want to promote or work hard?

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The old truism is there are 2 sides to every story–and this is no different for guests and conventions. In today's post I'm going to discuss the situation from the side of the guest–and what you can do to be the best possible guest for a convention (and why this should be very important to you).

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Intervention 2010, the con for Webcomics by Webcomics, is now taking pre-reg and hotel space registrations. Information is available on the main site.

Join the growing webcomics party today!

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The webcomic Onezumi.com’s newest giveaway contest is called “Onezumi.com gives you a venereal disease”. The contest is for 3 lucky winners to get a venereal disease plush microbe made by the GiantMicrobes.com company. Details and entry are here. The contest ends Wednesday Sept. 7th at midnight. So come check out Onezumi.com; other than mental illness we guarantee that this is the only time you’ll ever get a virus or disease from us. Continue Reading →

Another Otakon update: Onezumi, the creator of the webcomic Onezumi.com will be a panelist on the “Turning Fanart into a Business” panel on Friday, August 19th at 10:00AM. In addition, Onezumi will be at her Dealers Room table during the con giving live art tutorial lessons and answering questions about webcomic production and business practices. There are also rumors that the Onezumi.com fanclub might be wandering around giving out free candy.

Mitch Clem has formally rebooted his webcomic, The Coffee Achievers with new artist Joe Dunn. Dunn is redoing all of the existing TCA strips as well as working with Clem on new installments. For now the team is posting a full chapter a week each Wednesday (Chapter One is up) but new daily installments will begin on August 29th.

Man Man brings the grammar humor!

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Onezumi.com’s latest giveaway contest is up and it’s directed toward their audience of Anime fans. The contest, which ends Tuesday June 28th at midnight, is for a copy of the Special Edition Armitage: Dual Matrix Lunchbox set. This set comes with a Lunchbox, Armitage figure, and the DVD movie. For details and to enter the contest, go to the Onezumi forum.

Onezumi.com is a webcomic site that specializes in art tutorials and forums dedicated to helping out new webcomic creators and digital artists. Continue Reading →

Onezumi.com’s latest giveaway contest for a copy of the online Mac/PC game World of Warcraft plus 4 months of free online time will be ending this Tueday May 31st at midnight. You can go to their forum site to see the contest rules and how to enter. Onezumi.com is a webcomic updated 3 times a week, and also hosts art tutorials and a forum site dedicated to helping new artists and web comic creators. Continue Reading →

This weekend is the end of the latest Onezumi.com giveaway contest. This month’s giveaway is an Onezumi.com Customized iPod shuffle to the lucky winner of their forum entry contest. What better way to store your art files and also relax with a few tunes? The iPod and all of the iPod packaging materials will be hand customized to match the Onezumi.com website by Onezumi herself. The easy entry rules and announcement are here. For more info on the contest and site please “Read More”.

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