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2022 Convention Artist Survey

May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 · Artist Resources · Reading Time: < 1 minute

The 2022 Convention Artist Survey will be accepting responses through January 15th, 2023. Many of the questions are the same as in prior years, but a number of COVID-specific questions were added.

A year without conventions

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 · Business · Reading Time: 10 minutes

It’s been the epitome of a monkey’s paw year for every tired artist who wanted to do fewer conventions, amirite?

10 Years of Artist Alley

January 22, 2020July 10, 2020 · Business, Personal · Reading Time: 13 minutes

This past December was my 10th consecutive year doing Artist Alley at IKKiCON in Austin.

2019 Convention Artist Survey results & conclusion

January 16, 2020April 8, 2020 · Artist Resources · Reading Time: 4 minutes

The official end time for the 2019 Survey has passed, and the raw spreadsheet of results is available here. With that, this project is mostly concluded, though there are still a few loose ends…

2018 Convention Artist Survey results

July 18, 2019April 8, 2020 · Artist Resources · Reading Time: 5 minutes

The 2018 Convention Artist Survey collected 987 artist responses regarding financial and other data for over 300 conventions in North America — how much they made, how much they spent, how far they traveled, how they rated staff communication and organisation, and so on.

2017 Artist Alley Survey results

May 1, 2018April 8, 2020 · Artist Resources · Reading Time: 4 minutes

Analysis and results of the 2017 Convention Artist Survey featuring artist alley finance data, convention rankings, and over 160 charts and graphs!

2016 Artist Alley Survey results

April 11, 2017April 8, 2020 · Artist Resources · Reading Time: 4 minutes

Analysis and results of the 2016 convention artist survey featuring artist alley finance data, convention rankings, and over 100 charts and graphs!

How to be a con artist

September 7, 2016April 8, 2020 · Artist Resources · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Because of time constraints, I stopped writing long, detailed, individual convention reports at the end of 2014, but since mid-2013, I’ve been co-running the How To Be A Con Artist blog.

2015 Artist Alley Survey results

May 25, 2016April 8, 2020 · Artist Resources · Reading Time: 4 minutes

After many delays due to a hectic convention season, the 2015 Convention Artist Survey results are here!

2014 Artist Alley Survey

April 7, 2015April 8, 2020 · Artist Resources · Reading Time: 2 minutes

For 2013 and 2014, Devastator Press & The Beat put together a survey about comic con exhibitor finances. The results are really interesting! I wanted to see data for anime con artists though.