# Please Tell Me About Fan Conventions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-about-fan-conventions/479113>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 29, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-about-fan-conventions/479113 "2008-12-29T20:31:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-about-fan-conventions/479113/21 "2009-02-08T05:50:25Z")

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Good advice on the Sharpie, but as cool as the metallic ones look, the writing will shrink in time. A basic black one will be more stable in the long term, so try to have something with a large, light area to sign in black.

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