Oshkosh 2003 Redux

In article , Ron Wanttaja says...


Give the EAA Housing number a call next year....there are some good deals
in private homes.

Also, there were several vendors and non profits that I know of (one I can
remember is Aviation
Tomorrow, Jim Dunn's electric plane) that were looking for roomates to fill up
their private houses
even days before the show.

If you have never been to Osh, the Klyde Morris cartoon basically spells it out,
where Klyde
describes all his horrible experiences to his FO, who commiserates, and then
Klyde says, "but I also
got to meet Scott Crossfield," whereupon the FO says, "Next year I'm going with
you!"

Wes (the cartoonist who draws Klyde) had an awful show, and lost his shirt
($1200 to EAA for a
booth among Ginsu-knife and Ronco slicer hucksters vs. a couple hundred in
sales) but my bet is
that he will be back (although he is not likely to give the EAA over a thou for
a booth in Junk Scam
Land. EAA has ruled that Klyde books and stuff are "non-aviation-related" so
he's banished from
the pavilions).

cheers

-=K=-

Rule #1: Don't hit anything big.

On 11 Aug 2003 16:51:49 -0700, Kevin O'Brien
wrote:

Wes (the cartoonist who draws Klyde) had an awful show, and lost his shirt
($1200 to EAA for a booth among Ginsu-knife and Ronco slicer hucksters vs.
a couple hundred in sales) but my bet is that he will be back (although
he is not likely to give the EAA over a thou for a booth in Junk Scam
Land.

Gonna have to sell a lot of books, if he ends up in the pavilions. I
overheard one of the vendors there say he'd paid $2200 for his booth.

He might want to team up with people like Hank Caruso and Robrucha and have
a combined "cartoonist mart" booth in the pavilions.

Ron Wanttaja

I'd never seen this cartoonist before the show. I think one of his
problems from the view of someone whos never seen his work before is
that he didn't really have anything to show, to tell us what his product
is (and where its printed, magazine?)...some T-shirts, displayed a few
'toons, and what else?? How about some books of his cartoons?

John