HOW TO MAKE A BAD IMPRESSION IN 35 SECONDS

…So we’d just set up our booth display for Pittsburgh ComiCon 2009, and this fellow walks up, portfolio in hand.  He studies our booth for a moment, its banner modestly proclaiming us to be “The World’s Premier Agency for Creative Properties & Graphics Talent.”

“Uhh…what are ‘Properties of Creative’?” he asks me.

“Creative Properties,” I reply.  “Characters and concepts that can be trademarked and marketed.  Like Banzai Girl.  Shrek.  Spider-Man and Superman.”

He pauses, then says, “Man, I didn’t think you’d actually give me a stupid answer to my stupid question.”  Then he walks off.

Was there a point?