Another Week, Another Convention Purchased by Shamus/Wizard Nexus

This time it's the North Coast Comic Con in Cleveland, which will be relaunched as the Cleveland Comic Con Wizard World Convention. As has been the case with some of the previous shows purchased, the person from whom this show was purchased will both consult on the now-bigger show and retain the freedom to run local events of their own.

This brings to 11 the number of shows now offered under the umbrella shared in some manner by Gareb Shamus and his Wizard brand, as well as bearing the words "comic" and "con" in the title. While some critics see this as Shamus dangerously overstepping his investment into such shows after a strategy of bigger, quarterly show fairly crashed and burned (or at least crashed and smoked a bit) over the last three years, I suspect they've hit on a model that's at least very hard not to keep in the black and are trying to lock in a kind of continual convention presence business that should be a place to rest their brand as print publication continues to vomit blood and they work through whatever investment capital might have all by itself been able to get a web site over and profitable 10 years ago.

I could be wrong, and usually am.
 
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