March 29, 2010
A Quartet Of Quick Convention Notes

* the best-written piece I've seen this morning is
Robert Boyd on a local Houston show.
* there is a nice bunch of photos
here in Joe Gordon's report from Hi-Ex, one of approximately 15,000 UK shows. What strikes me is that with a little lighting and a few professional backdrop posters the space looks much more visually sumptuous than most North American shows of equivalent size. If you run such a show, that could be worth looking into.

* I'm having a hard time getting a grasp on the Toronto Comic Con, the first in Wizard Entertainment's series of 12 different regional comics shows driven by a mix of old comics sales, actors in genre shows and a smattering of invited comics talent. I'm not seeing much if any news except of the basic "
hey, a person we may have heard of" and "
look at the crazy people in costumes" variety.
Photos like these from Flickr, or sets
like these from same, make the show appear mostly like a wasteland.
This blog posting by a volunteer suggests it was very easy to get in and get out, which is not how any decently-attended con would be described. On the other hand, there's one weird, washed-out photo in Rich Johnston's set
here that shows a few hundred people trying to get in, and
Sequential seems to all but outright support Wizard's 20,000 number. It looked like a good convention if you wanted to meet cute cast members from
Da Vinci's Inquest that went on to do science fiction shows, but other than that, I just can't tell. If someone out there has a wide-shot of the floor at the con's height, please let me know so I can go look at it!
* the French-language comics news clearinghouse
has a report up on how publishers saved money on expenditures at this year's Le Salon du Livre de Paris: one group reduced its space to the tune of 600,000 Euros in savings; another group exhibited together. Attendance remained high over the weekend despite the cost-cutting moves by the exhibitors.
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