Andrew W. Farago
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 19 July 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 4079
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| Posted: 02 January 2007 at 5:16pm | IP Logged | 1
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Something that I always try to keep in mind when dealing with people at conventions, whether it's attendees approaching a table where I'm working or if it's me catching up with an old friend, taking care of work-related business or standing in line to meet a childhood hero is that the convention scenario itself is pretty unnatural.
Four hours or four days of sitting behind a table and getting every possible reaction from "your work changed my life!" to "you should've retired ten years ago" to blank stares to dealers wanting to haggle with you over original art prices to meetings with editors and fretting about deadlines and any number of other personal things you're not able to deal with while you're at the convention--most things short of a complete meltdown/screaming fit I can chalk up to "convention stress" and leave it at that. By the end of two days working a table at the San Diego Comic-Con, I probably wouldn't recognize my own sister until I looked at her nametag and thought about it for a minute.
An overwhelming majority of artists that I've met at conventions over the years are incredibly friendly and courteous, even when faced with hours-long lines of fans shoving copy after copy of Batman or Spider-Man or whatever under their noses. A few artists (I could probably count them on one hand, thankfully) have been pretty consistently rude every time I've met them, whether it's been Hour One or Day Four of a convention, whether there's a long line or no line to meet them, and whether I'm seeing them at the convention or after-hours someplace, but you're going to have some percentage of jerks in just about every industry, so that's to be expected anyway.
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