ABOUT

AAO (Artist Alley Online) was created in response to the postponement of Emerald City Comic Con due to COVID-19. What started out as a small group of friends, quickly evolved into something more! Rather than focusing on ourselves and our own individual audiences, we united and pooled our resources for some truly incredible results!

At this point in time, our intention is to be a virtual lifeboat for convention artists affected by the inevitable loss of income due to cancelations and postponements. All that we ask is that you share us with your audience the same way we share you with ours. Currently, we are working on a list of conventions we plan on supporting, but please recognize that we simply cannot cover all conventions affected by this pandemic. That being said, we will do our best to signal boost any posts using the #artistalleyonline or #AAO tags.

As for the future, we are hoping everything calms down sooner rather than later. Once conventions come back and things slowly return to normal we plan on shifting our model. Instead of being a lifeboat, we hope to be a lighthouse, guiding AAO attendees to some amazing artists! Our core group will shrink but we will bring in a rotating crew of artists to hold up. AAO will still be a source of good in the art community, we’ll just be more focused. Think of those artists as special guests at our online convention!

Support Us:

If you are willing and able during this tough time, you can support us with small donations via Ko-Fi.

Much love,
AAO