Mostly expenses is all. Not only the plane tickets and stuff, but I heard Comic Con is super expensive? Cost is primarily the only thing stopping me, otherwise I'd be all over it! I want to go so bad, and visit you all, as well naturally :D
Plane tickets are a pain these days (fuel prices, extra charges for baggage, peanuts, etc.), but you can still find decent fares if you book in advance (especially from Jet Blue and Southwest Air).
Hotel: we stay at the Holiday Inn and for just two people, it works out to about $85/night/person. If you get a couple more people in the room, that rate goes down proportionately.
Memberships: when they open pro-reg in March 2009, sign up. You should be able to pull together enough material to qualify (maybe you can get some mileage out of your Boondocks work after all!). Pro-badge = free. Plus, you get a "guest-of" badge, too.
Where SDCC gets expensive is if you go on a crazy-brained shopping spree. Rare drawing books, foreign editions, original art by someone you worship as a GOD-- that sort of thing. If you're really on a budget, you can do what Roz does and bring/get a cooler with cold cuts, PB&J, bread and cereal to survive the weekend and not go out to eat.
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Date: 2008-07-29 04:20 pm (UTC)Hotel: we stay at the Holiday Inn and for just two people, it works out to about $85/night/person. If you get a couple more people in the room, that rate goes down proportionately.
Memberships: when they open pro-reg in March 2009, sign up. You should be able to pull together enough material to qualify (maybe you can get some mileage out of your Boondocks work after all!). Pro-badge = free. Plus, you get a "guest-of" badge, too.
Where SDCC gets expensive is if you go on a crazy-brained shopping spree. Rare drawing books, foreign editions, original art by someone you worship as a GOD-- that sort of thing. If you're really on a budget, you can do what Roz does and bring/get a cooler with cold cuts, PB&J, bread and cereal to survive the weekend and not go out to eat.