MoCCA To Move Back Festival Dates

Tim O'Shea has a nice interview up with Karl Erickson of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA), who should score points with some of the frustrated attendees of that organization's festival in June by admitting to some of the specific problems many had with the show -- others, like the lack of physical facilities like multiple trash cans, are flatly denied. The air conditioning is said to be too expensive, although we get few details as to what that actually means, and I don't expect any.

Two practical moves seem to be on the horizon: 1) scheduling the show earlier in the year, which should alleviate some of the heat concerns and which one would guess is made possible in part by the schedule-clearing move of the New York Comic-Con to Fall, and 2) an increased presence for the Festival on-line, including a devoted web site. I would say that the latter is overdue, so good on them, and the former is a legitimate reaction with a possible downside. One of the great things about that show is that it caught the first flush of New York summer; a show in a wet spring or a cold winter will be less appealing and may or may not generate less traffic. I'll personally miss having a comics festival to attend so near a Triple Crown race and from which to potentially bounce down to Heroes Con after extending my time on the road, but I have to imagine this might have an effect on the plans of at most three people in the entire world.
 
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