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Recent Journal
Q&A "How come you haven't been a GOH yet?"
4 years agoI recently have been asked by several people “how come you haven’t been a guest of honor (GOH) at a con yet?”
First off, I really appreciate the sentiment. It’s normally accompanied with something like “Your art is so good!” which is a wonderfully kind compliment to receive. However, that’s not what determines whether or not a con should make someone a GOH or not.
The answer to the question is simply that I’m not currently a wise choice for GOH, and that is fine. Before I explain, I want to make it clear that I’m apathetic to the subject. Currently, my art is paying some of my bills, and it’s reach is still growing. Those are the most important goals that I have, so I’m very happy with things. A GOH spot at a con isn’t really something that I think about much, and would likely even add a bit of stress as I’d be expected to run some panels. Public speaking is something that I’ve been very successful at avoiding, so it would take a lot of effort to overcome that.
I've also been offered the GOH position at a con this past year, but sadly had to decline because the offering convention is outside of the current range that I travel for conventions. There were no hard feelings, and it was just a reminder of the give and take deal that the position is.
What’s more important to me, however, is that I think I can help those with these questions to better understand how the relationship with conventions and GOH positions work:
If a convention is efficiently choosing it’s GOH’s, it’s choosing artists and performers with sizeable social media reach.
While it’s true that it’s typically a benefit to the con to receive excellent art for their year’s theme, and they aren’t effectively using the talents of a GOH if they aren’t peppering their promotion material with that artist’s talent, there’s also the benefit of the artist having a large social media reach which will then serve as advertising property for the convention.
Therefore, in this age of twitter, FA, Instagram, and Facebook, it’s extremely important to a con that they select their guests from the list of artists and performers that excel in most of those platforms.
Simply put, I currently don’t. I have about 2500 facebook followers, but my twitter is tiny, and instagram is not much better (200+ each). I did recently pass 1k FA followers, but again, by comparison, that’s rather small. I’m happy to have each and every one of you, and I am plenty happy with the fact that those communities continue to grow.
I have no lack of people wanting commissions, and I even have some patrons for whom I can’t be more thankful!
The online community has been very good to me, and my reach continues to grow, so maybe someday. Who knows?
The big thing for me is that I’m already very happy, and such honors are not necessary to me feeling good about my work. I currently don’t have a lot to offer cons other than promotional art, and I offer that freely to conventions that I love already. (I had the honor of designing the 2018 Anthro SouthEast shirt last year.) I’ll always be happy to donate time to conventions that I want to see continue. They also give me a wonderful place to sell my merch!
So, in short. Thank you to those who have asked. Maybe someday, but probably not before some more growth, and that is ok. I have far greater goals, like growing my merchandise, and improving my art quality. And, right now I have parenting to add to the list of obligations, so I’ll keep growing and learning at my own pace. I’m just so thankful to have the family of supporters that I do!
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Rock, metal, techno, dubstep
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“What is better: to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”
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