Trading Card or Postcard?
Once again, I turn to you, the readers of Love and Capes. Con Season is approaching. Heck, there’s supposed to even be a Wizard World Cleveland now. Just as long as it doesn’t park on any other shows, especially Mid-Ohio-Con, I’ll be trés interested to see it. Anyway, for the upcoming year, I’d like to have something new.
First, I toyed with the idea of trading cards. I figured I could sell them at each show, and then make the package available online. I though $1.00 a card might work. Anything less means making coin-change, and I don’t know if anyone wants that. But the printing cost is pretty reasonable, and it could be a neat thing to do.
Then, I had another idea, which in a moment 
of "great minds think alike" also came across my Twitter feed to do an actual postcard. I could feature every city I’m visiting and have Mark and Abby (or Amazonia or Darkblade) hanging out in the city, with a "Greetings from [CITY]!" on them. But, if I did that, I think that they need to be giveaways.
I’ve got rough mock-ups for both of them displayed here. Click on either to see them embiggened. So what do you think? Do the postcard? The trading card? Both?
February 8th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I’d like both please! The Trading cards seem a little more fun but it is cool to think of the happy couple flying over Dallas …
February 8th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
While I like both, I prefer the postcards, myself. You could sell them as sets, I think.
February 10th, 2010 at 10:13 am
While I do think the cards are cool, I don’t have a place for stuff like that, so I’d probably never buy them. The postcards on the other hand, those I could easily find a place to put, perhaps on a wall. Especially if you did a bit of research, and personalize them to each city a bit. Those could be really fun!
February 20th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
You could do both. A postcard would be cool, as a fan could actually mail it to someone. You can probably get the photo from stock or the local visitor’s bureau.
Trading cards… that’s not bad. A dollar? Probably okay if you signed it. Or free with purchase? May I suggest you publish blank sketch cards as well, charging $10? Do you print the name of the Con on the card? What if you don’t sell them all? Perhaps do one a year, and use the same art on a T-shirt as well?