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Two Booth Babes At New York Comic Con

Published Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:36:14 -0500

Last updated Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:54:12 -0500

The New York Comic Con is coming. My tickets are booked, I'll be flying in for about half a week, for the closest the East Coast gets to the San Diego Comic Con, with the benefit of having DC and Marvel close by (at least for now) with guaranteed attendance in their hordes, late night drinking and more reasonable snackable options than just Ralph's. I'll be attending courtesy of Avatar, but are there ways you can attend for free? Even get paid?

Well, if you are a young, attractive woman then, yes. You can be a booth babe. This wonderfully descriptive term means that you are there because you are a "babe" and you're standing in front of or behind a booth, attracting people to its wares through your colourful hair, prominent cleavage or short skirt. Possibly a combination of all three. More that likely, you would be handing out promotional mugs, pens, etc., that were bought here. Demeaning, yes. Depersonifying, absolutely. But you do get in for free and, if you can tolerate the leering of fanboys, get to be leered at by some famous people too.

Here's a look at two current vacancies.

VC Imagination Factory want you to dress up as their character Bellona from their graphic novel trilogy Bialien. You're on $50-$70 a day

"Are you looking to further your modeling career? Or to get your foot in the door in the media world? If you are looking for exposure in front of 10's of thousands of people and looking for a company to add on your resume, then please continue to read."

Exposure indeed. This is what she looks like. So plenty of skin covered – including your face – but looks like you need to be stacked. They'll dye your hair for you if you don't provide a wig.

As it stands, if you're happy with the leering thing. It's probably not too bad. Chesticles aside the costume is relatively modest. Relatively. The company seems a reputable one. If being a booth babe is what you've set your heart on there's a lot worse.

Like the next listing. They describe themselves as a

"funny tee shirt company in need of a booth girl for ComicCon (NYC)."

Doesn't sound too bad does it? You can imagine it now, wearing T-shirts, tight ones or big baggy ones tied up in knot at the side, exposing your rib cage, probably pointing at a shirt design, selling, taking money, Probably a lot worse, right? Wrong.

"We are looking for a friendly, attractive girl who's up for hanging out at ComicCon topless… "

Wait what?

"sort of."

Sort of?

"I'll explain."

Please do.

"We're going to have an artist paint a shirt design of ours (as well as the "shirt") on you. From a distance you don't be able to tell it's not a real shirt – you can only tell relatively close up. There's plenty of examples of this kind of treatment online, if you're not familiar google 'body painting'."

Not of you're at work you don't. So there are folks, topless paint modelling. You couldn't pay me enough to do that sort of…