2012 San Diego Comics Fest

I know of it. It's this weekend.

It's what you quote, a small convention focused on comics, trying to get back to the roots of what the San Diego Comic-Con started out as. Enough people have been talking about how they missed "the good old days" at the Coronado Hotel when Jack Kirby would give out sketches for free, yadda yadda yadda. They got together and said, "Why don't we put on a show!" Some of them helped create the SDCC in the first place.

To some extent, I think they wanted to offer an alternative to SDCC, where many comics dealers were feeling marginalized. Whether being a big fish in a pretty small pond is better than being a tiny fish in the ocean will be seen. Ideally, I think they're looking to pick up the dealers who gave up on the big show or even convince dealers at SDCC to come to them instead. But I think a lot of the SDCC dealers came from all over the country, and I don't know that this show can be any more than local dealers.

We'll see what people say afterward and what their future prospects look like. They could be good, given how many people can't get into SDCC. But again, how many of them were going for the old comics?

Here's a link to their page: http://www.sdcomicfest.org/

-- MSA

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Mr. Silver Age October 17, 2012 at 7:50am

I know of it. It's this weekend.

It's what you quote, a small convention focused on comics, trying to get back to the roots of what the San Diego Comic-Con started out as. Enough people have been talking about how they missed "the good old days" at the Coronado Hotel when Jack Kirby would give out sketches for free, yadda yadda yadda. They got together and said, "Why don't we put on a show!" Some of them helped create the SDCC in the first place.

To some extent, I think they wanted to offer an alternative to SDCC, where many comics dealers were feeling marginalized. Whether being a big fish in a pretty small pond is better than being a tiny fish in the ocean will be seen. Ideally, I think they're looking to pick up the dealers who gave up on the big show or even convince dealers at SDCC to come to them instead. But I think a lot of the SDCC dealers came from all over the country, and I don't know that this show can be any more than local dealers.

We'll see what people say afterward and what their future prospects look like. They could be good, given how many people can't get into SDCC. But again, how many of them were going for the old comics?

Here's a link to their page: http://www.sdcomicfest.org/

-- MSA

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