Today was the day of Appleseed Comic Con in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It's a rather modest convention, but we still get to see a ton of really great stuff.
However, I probably shouldn't be allowed to even talk to artists at this point.
I came to the table of Kurt Dinse (www.pungentbasementart.com) and chatted him up for a bit, browsing his art cards. I spotted a placard on the table which said the small colored sketches were only 25 cents. Woah, 25 cents? That's amazing! I quickly pulled out my wallet, managing to pull together 30 cents. Surely I would get something a little nicer for the added nickel, right?
Turns out I was wrong. You see, the sign did indeed have a number two and a number five on it. However, the symbols on either side of it were not the cent symbols I had thought they were at a glance. No, these were dollar symbols. Even though I had just made a massive idiot of myself in front of three artists (Kurt and those on either side of him), he was a great sport about it and did a little doodle for my three measly dimes. I am now the proud owner of a monochrome sketch of Pyramid Head shrugging incredulously at me, wondering what the hell I was thinking at the time.