[B5JMS] jms at san diego comic con

[b5jms at cs.columbia.edu]

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From: "Dave Thomer" <davethomer at comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:49:34 +0000 (UTC)
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What's your general policy with autograph sessions?  Are there certain items
you prefer to sign, or prefer not to sign?  Will you sign two or three
items, or just one?  And will you personalize autographs?

I hope I'm not being too much of a pest here, but I figure it's better to
ask here than in the middle of the line.  I ask because there are two
friends who insisted I watch B5 back in the day, without whom I likely never
would have watched the show or checked out your comics work.  So I'd like to
get autographs for them if I can, as a thank you.

Looking forward to the Bendis and Spotlight panels on Saturday.  Take care!
-- 
Dave Thomer
This Is Not News - www.notnews.org
Philosophy, public affairs and pop culture

"Jms at B5" <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20030713204225.11970.00000264 at mb-m13.aol.com...
> Just to let folks know...I'll be doing panels and presentations only
Saturday
> and Sunday, and my main one-person presentation will be Saturday from 2:30
to
> 3:30.  My only scheduled autograph session is Saturday at 3:30, and that
may
> well be it for the whole convention.  (This will also be the last time
that the
> Sleeping in Light scripts, with deleted material, will be available at a
> convention, to celebrate our 10 year anniversary.)
>
>
>  jms
>
> (jmsatb5 at aol.com)
> (all message content (c) 2003 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
> permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
> and don't send me story ideas)
>
>
>
>
>





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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:44:19 +0000 (UTC)
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>What's your general policy with autograph sessions?  Are there certain items
>you prefer to sign, or prefer not to sign?  Will you sign two or three
>items, or just one?  And will you personalize autographs?

In the past, I've always had a simple policy: put it in front of me and I'll
sign it.  But the problem lately has been, as I've gotten more known in comics,
the dealers have been taking advantage of this.  They'll show up with stacks of
20-30 at a time, I'll sign them, then they'll get in line again, and I'll sign
a hundred or so, which they just go out and re-sell at marked up prices.

So this year I may cut it back to maybe ten per, or somewhere around there. 
Because it's not fair to make the honest fan with two things to have signed
wait behind a guy who doesn't care either way to get his 30 or 60 copies
signed.

Y'know?


 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2003 by synthetic worlds, ltd., 
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine 
and don't send me story ideas)