Sounds like you had a goof time Marshall.
Thank you for sharing this. Going to a shall show sounds good, especially when you have a press pass.
Nice pin.

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Oh sweet! gonna check him out right now thanks!

Aww so glad you had fun :D That was my favorite pin to draw of the convention. I love really cool OC's. Rawk.

I agree he's got a multitude of awesome creations! :)

I have a couple pieces of advice as you look into doing conventions. 1) Always go into your first convention as a learning experience, and anything sold is just a bonus. Write down your sketch commissions, and keep tallies of what merch moves. This will prep you for the next con.
2) You'll always spend a little less at the next convention, because you need to buy less. After several cons, you'll have bins, banners, comics, prints, a lock box, etc, etc. Eventually all you'll be doing is printing new comics and new prints for future cons. It's really nice knowing you don't have to prep as hard as the previous con.

Once you do a table, and if you go with a good open mindset, you'll be hooked and jonsing to hit up another con as an artist. It's a real rush. It's also exhausting.
One last piece of advice is bring a good chair or cushion, sitting all day is going to destroy your rear if you get stuck sitting in some junk chair.

Fortunately for me I know the guy who puts on the local Comicon. But for other conventions in the area, the local comic shops usually are dialed in on that info. Cons try to hit up local comic shops to provide flyers.
I know a guy who runs Con News: http://con-news.com There's a lot of cons on that page all over.