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Boise flies you out, pays for hotel, honorarium, and it’s free to the public. It’s great.

Heroes is one of my two favorite Cons.

This whole thing is half the reason I mainly do shows I can drive to and stay home. Sure they are smaller and I certainly make less than maybe a huge show would net me, but my overhead is basically nothing but the table so the profit margin is higher.

Thanks, Ragon! Hardly thought-out, I'm afraid, but it's worth weighing why books are rarer than other offerings (not to say that other stuff is worth less, I can get a book at a shop but I can only get a print or shirt or whatever from the artist themselves)

This is why I tell people heroes con is as close as you can get to the era when comic cons were mostly about comics and not movies/games/tv announcements

I make ephemera for fun (and have generally turned what I do for fun into regular Patreon offerings), and if I do a couple of new prints a year then it is a big year. Comics are and continue to be my main artistic output, but at shows? You wouldn't know it!

I knew I was an odd man out at fan shows like eccc, I do spots for comics rarely but work in games and TTRPG zones. This also means most of my job work I can’t reprint or sell, so I’m there with ephemera and prints. It has been really interesting over the past 10y to see the merch really take hold

I've had to come to peace with the fact HeroesCon isn't a place to actually make money, it's a place to make friends and if I'm lucky, get a discount on my hotel and travel expenses.

And that sort of key is nearly unavailable any longer. Which is sad, and which is why supporting these mid-size, (or smaller) independently run shows is important.

And as usual, the only people making money in the arts are the ones renting out the space.