okay the address is www.comic-con.org for more info on the San Diego Con. you can still get an exhibitor table for $650 or a booth for $1050. this is very short notice of course, but that is okay. as was discussed earlier, we all seem to be relatively young people. we can afford to wait and plan this out and do it right. but i think that the Con and any other toy shows (is there one coming up in Japan?) that we can go to and get the word out would be a good idea.
i feel a smart idea would be to set up a sort of promotion booth for our convention at any other similar types of conventions or even the SD Con next year. we could call local toy stores and make sure they are going to the convention and that they stop by our booth. i think that would work. in the mean time lets start getting together things like:
- a name for the convention
- a logo for the convention (suitable for flyers, t-shirts, and tiny buttons/pin all the way to giant posters/banners)
- requirements to be an exhibitor in the convention (what toy lines do we include?)
- what kind of permits do we need to sell things in Sacremento?
- does anyone know anyone in the hotel business in northern California?
- maybe a local hotel or hotel chain will cut us a deal on rooms in return for some free promotion (like their name on our banners and ads)
- does anyone know anyone having to do with TV or newspapers in northern California?
- if we want to get sponsors to help us, maybe forming a LLC (limited liability company?) might be a good idea. it would give us more credibility and help us get money for the event. i don't know much about this as an art student, but it seems reasonable....
regardless, what i am saying is that we should try and make this a big deal and a very well organized and thought out big deal. we have the time and the desire to create something very cool that could very well become a yearly event. maybe then even Albertinoz & Mischa would be able to make it. so lets now start work on some of the very simple and very neccesary first steps. i think those would be some of the first couple of things i mentioned. like the name and a logo.