Live From Wondercon

12:28 PM: It’s a rainy day in San Fran for the last day of Wondercon. The crowd is still pouring into Moscone Center — pretty slow for me so far today (lots of kids too young to be corrupted by OJ), but I’m keeping hope alive. This is the first time I’ve had a table at a convention, and I gotta admit I was nervous after seeing that scene in The Wrestler of Mickey Rourke hawking stuff at a little legion hall with other wash-outs. But it wasn’t as scary as I thought — yesterday just when it would get real boring, someone would come up and buy some stuff, get excited about my ‘toon, and that would make it worth it.

I’ll be updating this post as the day goes on (if my laptop battery holds up) so keep checking back.

2:43 PM: Just a got thru a mini-rush of DVD sales, so I’m in a good mood for now. My table is not in primo real estate in Artists Alley, but at least I’m sitting next to some cool guys. To my right is illustrator extraordinaire Stoner Dude (a brand new Orlando’s Joint fan!):

To my left is David Mack, creator of the Kabuki graphic novel series and a writer on Daredevil (I’m a new Kabuki fan):

6:39 PM: Man I am burnt out. I just got to SFO. Wondercon ended on a slow note for me sales-wise, but in the end I pretty much broke even. I’ll assess the success of this whole trip after I’ve caught up on sleep, but right now I can’t shake the feeling that I didn’t sell as much as I wanted to.

Inspirational moment of the day: an older black guy came up to the table, watched a few seconds of the Orlando’s Joint video playing on the portable player, and bought a DVD right away. “I want to support you, ’cause there’s no one else here like you doing stuff like this.”