Capricon question

[alicebentley]

Know of anyone who is attending Capricon and might be interested in putting some Foglio stuff in the Art Show?

I've recently taken on the task of getting some of Phil and Kaja's limited edition prints out to conventions that take mail-in art. But it's already too late to do that for Capricon. And I think that would be a particularly appropriate place to start with.

There's still plenty of time to ship the art to the Chicago area, but it would need a local handler from that point.

Any suggestions?

ETA: Turns out it is NOT too late to mail the art in - I was looking at an earlier year's web site. (doh!)

So I'm no longer looking for someone else to carry them in.

Comments

[controuble.livejournal.com]

Hi - all the mail-in art for Capricon is coming to my house and I will be taking it to the con. I am agenting 8 artists already as well as collecting all the mail-in (because there's somebody home at my house during the day to accept it). I will be helping out in the art show as much as I can around my duties in the Internet Cafe since the person running it this year has never done one before. I am experienced - I run the WindyCon art show. If you have any questions feel free to email me - kerrylkuhn (at) comcast (dot) net.

[alicebentley]

I don't have a lot of the usual questions, because I have run Art Shows myself in the (now distant) past. Running Windycon 5's Art Show was my first Department Head concom position, but I've done others since then (including Capricon, now that I think of it).

Thank you for taking on the significant job of collecting the mail-in art - I well remember how much work that could turn into.

But now I'm curious. What all is involved with agenting other artists? How does that differ from handling the mail-in folks?

[controuble.livejournal.com]

The artists I am agenting for will get everything done by me - hang art, pack art, collect check, mail back art & check. The rest of the mail-in is just being collected at my house and delivered to the con. The ASD has to deal with it after that. Of course, I will probably end up helping with all of it. but not to the point of mailing it back.

I get a lot of artists wanting to be agented to Cap because they charge a higher commission for mail-in, but not for agented (that's treated like attending) and they get their checks and art back faster.