>> >>: CARTOONIST AND ILLUSTRATOR, AND PAST SEVERAL YEARS BEEN INTENSE.
I HAVEN'T NOTICED ANY CROWDS HAVE DRAWN AWAY FROM THE TRADITIONAL COMICS AND ARTS.
>> >>: MY NAME IS BRAD SLOAN, WE'RE TERRY'S COMICS FROM ORANGE, CALIFORNIA.
WE GET FANS HERE THAT ARE WOUND UP ABOUT COMICS, EVEN IF THEY'RE BUYING A FIVEDOLLAR BOOK.
THEY'RE SO EXCITED TO GET IT.
YOU JUST CAN'T TAKE THE PASSION AWAY FROM COMIC BOOK OWNERS.
IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THEY MIGHT SCRIMP AND SAVE FOR BUYING CERTAIN BRAND OF TOOTH PASTE,
BUT WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO THEIR PASSION THEY'RE GOING TO BUY THAT COMIC BOOK.
>> >>: I'M AN ILLUSTRATOR AND DESIGNER, AND THIS IS MY BOOTH, BONSAI CHICK.
WHEN YOU COME TO COMICCON, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT THERE'S SO MANY THINGS
TO LOOK AT.
>> >>: I'M THE CREATOR OF CHAMPIONS OF HELL AND ZOMBIE JESUS.
SINCE I CAME HERE IN 1999, THERE WAS 30,000 PEOPLE BIGGEST ONE IN THE WORLD, IT'S JUST
GROWN AND GROWN.
BACK THEN NO ONE IN HOLLYWOOD WANTED TO TOUCH ANYTHING TO DO WITH COMIC BOOKS.
NOW IT'S COMPLETELY SWITCHED OVER.
AT THE END OF IT THE CONVENTION CENTER DID GROW TWICE AS LARGE, SO THERE PROBABLY IS
STILL THE SAME AMOUNT OF SPACE FOR COMIC BOOKS AS THERE WAS, IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT.
THE DEALER CONSENSUS FOR VINTAGE COMIC BOOKS AND THE REAL THING IS THAT WE SHOULD HAVE
TWO DIFFERENT CONS.
>> >>: I'M REBECCA HIKES, CREATOR OF LITTLE VAMPIRES, I'M A SAN DIEGO COMICCON BOOTH 1831.
I DO THINK INDIE COMICS AND ORIGINAL ARTWORK ARE NOT NEARLY AS POPULAR AS LATE 90S EARLY
2000S.
>> >>: MY NAME IS PAUL WE, I WORK ON THE SIMPSONS AS AN AN MATER, I'M ALSO AN ILLUSTRATOR AND
IT'S A LITTLE HARDER FOR INDEPENDENT TO GET NOTICED.
U MID ALL THE CACOPHONY OF SPIDERMAN, BAT MAN, ALL THAT STUFF.
>> >>: I ACTUALLY TRIED TO SHIFT INTO SOMETHING CUTESY AND MORE FOR GIRLS.
MY ARTWORK CHANGE AD LITTLE BIT.
>> >>: I NOTE USED WHEN I STARTED MAKING JEWELRY, I WAS GETTING A LOT MORE SALES.
I NOTICED SELLING COMICS AT THREE DOLLARS, AND PAY A DOLLAR 50 FOR PRINTING YOU'RE NOT
MAKING A LOT OF MONEY.
BUT IF YOU MAKE HAND MADE JEWELRY WHERE YOUR COSTS ARE LESS, YOU CAN MAKE A LITTLE MORE.
>> >>: IF YOU WORK IT, I DO BELIEVE IT PAYS OFF.
>> >>: I'M VAN BOYS, THIS IS MY TABLE AT COMICCON, DAN BOYS GRAPHICS.
I SELL MY ORIGINAL ART.
THE ABILITY FOR SOMEBODY NOT TO BE ABLE TO WALK UP FROM THE STREET TO BUY A TICKET AND
COME IN AND LOOK, I THINK THAT HURTS THE CON A LITTLE BIT.
THERE'S LIKE 300,000 PEOPLE THAT WANT TO BE HERE, AND THEY CAN ONLY LET IN 125,000 AT
A TIME.
>> >>: THE CROWDS HAVE CHANGED REMARKABLY OVER THE YEARS, BACK AT THE EL CORTEZ HOTEL
WHERE IT WAS MOSTLY WHITE AND MALE CROWDS.
NOW IT'S EVERYONE, RACE, GROUP, CREED, COLOR, GENDER YOU CAN IMAGINE.
>> >>: I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR FREEBIES.
COMPANIES ARE WERE GIVING OUT FEDORAS, YOU CAN'T COMPETE WITH THAT.
>> >>: PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE MORE HESITANT TO SPEND A LOT OF MONEY.
THEY WANT TO GET A LOT OF SWAG.
A LOT OF BUSINESS CARDS AND POST CARDS GET TAKEN.
>> >>: WE'VE GOT BOOKS AS HIGH AS 45,000DOLLARS IN OUR� WE HAVE PROBABLY 10 BOOKS THAT EQUAL
200,000.
WE CAN SELL BOOKS HERE WE CAN'T SELL ANYWHERE ELSE.
PEOPLE REALLY COME HERE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
I'VE SOLD BOOKS TO AUSTRALIA, CANADA, GERMANY, LONDON.
>> >>: THERE'S A SEVENYEAR WAIT ON THESE TABLES.
WE'RE DEFINITELY COMING BACK.
>> >>: I'LL BE BACK UNTIL I CAN'T WALK, OR DRAW ANYMORE.