This is what burned me out on convention tabling and why I'm taking an indefinite break. To make money at US fandom cons, you have to keep up with the fan art merch churn and honestly it sucks and is exhausting.
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Bree Wolf
I cannot tell you the number of times people at comic shows have acted surprised that i am actually selling comics. I'm happy doing that, but I feel like I am taking a huge hit for not doing fan merch. It sucks even more when shows have trained ppl to only expect fan merch.
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I think fan art is great but fan art as product isn't the golden ticket it appears to be.