Wait, I can hear you thinking to yourself already: “What’s Cameron talking about now? There’s a million billion comic conventions every year! He must be off his medications again and back to drinking tobasco sauce”. OK, you’re right (about the convention thing, not the medication thing, and the tobasco sauce thing I can quit any time I want, honest) – there are a ton of conventions every year…

…In every country but mine.

There is one comic convention in Australia – Supanova – and it’s held once a year in Sydney, Melbourne and my home town of Brisbane. It’s a pretty popular event, to be sure, but it’s not really a comic convention. It’s more of a popular entertainment convention, with a big focus on television stars, movie memorabilia, science fiction merchandise and video games (my day job will be holding a huge booth there). Comics are represented with the occasional booth for local stores and one or two artists plugging their wares.

It’s cool and all but it’s not really a comic convention.

Which poses the problem for me because I’m tryinig to decide if it’s worth going there to plug Plant-Man and Funnywebcomic. Having a booth or a table doesn’t make much sense since I don’t have any books or t-shirts to sell, so I’m thinking of going and handing out flyers (more on that later). Will it be worth the hassle? I can’t imagine it’ll be a real comic crowd. I’m happy to be proven wrong though.

It really worries me because every ‘pro’ web cartoonist keeps saying that going to these conventions is a critical part of anyone’s success. The implication there is that if you don’t go to four or ten conventions a year to sell books, you’re pretty much screwed, and I don’t really know what I can do about that.

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