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The Toast Report: SDCC 2012 PIC HEAVY!

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Designer Toast

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The one pain in the azz experience I had at SDCC was using my credit card. I bought a book from a dealer and he said the card was declined. No way. I asked him to run it again and he had to walk all the way out to the lobby to get a decent connection. The card went through and that was that...no, no it wasn't. I got double charged and have spent the last thirty minutes sorting it out.

 

Everyone was having problems getting out on their own credit card readers due to the insane amount of cellular traffic going out. I mentioned this before, but SDCC actually has the nerve to offer Internet access for one-hundred dollars per day.

 

Cost of doing business and all that, sure, but you'd think they'd want to assist in helping every vendor there have the most successful show possible. Telling people you can't take a card probably cost a lot of sales at this show.

 

Amazingly, I didn't spend all that much at the show. I bought a new price guide, got hooked up with a ton of Adventure Time stuff because of a screw up on my sketch and sig books, picked up some Walking Dead stuff, and I bought some plush toys for my kids before leaving.

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So is it safe to say that SDCC is the pop culture convention?

 

 

As far as pop culture goes, it's mind blowing. I thought last year was insane. This year topped it. The only one that I know of that surpasses this one is the one in Europe. Apparently it's multiples larger than SD.

 

 

 

I find it hard to believe Europe could put on a show anything near what SDCC has to offer.

 

 

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So is it safe to say that SDCC is the pop culture convention?

 

 

As far as pop culture goes, it's mind blowing. I thought last year was insane. This year topped it. The only one that I know of that surpasses this one is the one in Europe. Apparently it's multiples larger than SD.

 

 

 

I find it hard to believe Europe could put on a show anything near what SDCC has to offer.

 

 

I'd have a hard time believing that as well. I know there is a show in Japan an artist pal of mine attended, and it was something like ten square city blocks and had 500,000 people go through it in a week. He said it was most insane comic related thing he's ever experienced.

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