If you can appeal to an established fandom, that's great.

Many visitors come intending to buy things

related to their fandom and aren't particularly interested in anything else. Some fandoms are relatively
broad while others are exceedingly narrow.

The audience is mostly young- school kids and university students. As far as I can tell a slight majority
is female.

It's hard to sell big ticket items. Misun told me that W5000 is the highest most people will pay for
anything. Many visitors are hesitant to buy something outside of their fandom, and being students they
generally don't have a whole lot of money to spend. Personally I see this as a big responsibility. If a kid
is willing to give me W3000 for a comic, it had better be the best comic that I'm capable of making.

Books aren't generally great sellers. You might want to do some character goods or posters as well.

Ed and Jason know a place that has great rates on A4-sized prints. Misun suggested using a photo
printing service for smaller pictures & postcards- they generally have better rates than even the
cheapest commercial printers.

“Laminate Fancies” are those laminated character printouts that you've seen. Although cheap and easy
to make, I'm not sure they're worth the effort. “CardTek” (tiny art prints on cards) seem to be more
popular these days. Both of these things can be given away as “service” to people who buy your book.

Check the ComicWorld forum for people doing group orders of character goods. You can find out
where to make things like handkerchiefs, fans, cards, phone accessories, those cloths for cleaning your
glasses, and tons of other things. Generally you need to place an order several weeks before the next
event.

I have no idea how many copies of a single comic you should print; usually I do 500 to 1000 and have
no trouble selling them. The rule at our house is that I can print as many comics as I want as long as the
boxes all fit in the free corner of the deck.

Bringing snacks to share with the artists sitting near you is a great idea. On a related note, being seated
next to a table full of aujummas is the best thing ever. Aujummas who draw comics rock.

That's all I can think of right now. Good luck, and see you around!

The other night I said I'd send you an email with everything I've learned about Comic World.
Fortunately, it isn't too much- I've only been attending regularly for about a year.

The market is ruled by fandoms. Many visitors come intending to buy things related to their fandom,
and aren't particularly interested in anything else.

The audience is mostly young- school kids and university students. As far as I know a slight majority is
female.

It's hard to sell big ticket items. Misun told me that W5000 is the highest most people will pay for
anything. Many visitors are hesitant to buy something outside of their fandom, and being students they
generally don't have a whole lot of money to spend, so convincing them to take that initial plunge and
give your work a chance can be challenging.

I can usually sell around 100 comics a day, which as far as I can tell is pretty good. Books aren't
generally great sellers so you might want to do some character goods or posters as well.

Ed and Jason know a place that has great rates on A4-sized prints. Misun suggested using a photo
printing service for smaller pictures & postcards- they generally have better rates than even the
cheapest commercial printers.

“Laminate Fancies” are those laminated character printouts that you've seen. Although cheap and easy
to make, I'm not sure they're worth the effort. “CardTek” (tiny art prints on cards) seem to be more
popular these days. Both of these things can be given away as “service” to people who buy your book.

Check the ComicWorld forum for people doing group orders of character goods. You can find out
where to make things like handkerchiefs, fans, cards, phone accessories, those cloths for cleaning your
glasses, and tons of other things. Generally you need to place an order several weeks before the next
event.

There's something to be said for having a rotating stock, especially after you've made some fans. You
can spread the four volumes of Aki Alliance out over the year. That way, at each Comic World fans will
have something new to pick up. As a side bonus, each volume in the series will be able to pay for the
printing of the next.

I have no idea how many copies of a single comic you should print; usually I do 500 to 1000 and have
no trouble selling them. The rule at our house is that I can print as many comics as I want as long as the
boxes all fit in the free corner of the deck.

Bringing snacks to share with the artists sitting near you is a great idea. On a related note, being seated
next to a table full of aujummas is the best thing ever. Aujummas who draw comics rock.

That's all I can think of right now. Good luck, and see you around!

- JH.