Festivals Extra: Emerald City Comicon Expands To Four Days In 2016

I'm a little late to this. At the end of their successful 2015 show, Emerald City Comicon announced they'll be moving to a four-day show model from a three-day, starting in 2016. This puts them more in line with owner ReedPOP's shows in Chicago (C2E2) and New York (NYCC), and puts them more on the same ground with the Comic-Con shows in Anaheim and Los Angeles with whom the ReedPOP shows are generally seen to be in competition. In fact, the Emerald City show had already announced for the same, general weekend in 2016 that WonderCon is using for 2015, leading some to believe that the two shows might directly compete. I would imagine that's not going to happen, as WonderCon has bounced around the Spring a bit in recent years, but you never know.

I'm too old and disconnected from the con experience as a con-goer not to let my own preferences color how I look at such news. I mean, I like the three-day show for Seattle, and I have a hard time finding things to do for more than a couple of days at any show. I do think that when you get to four days you are kind of just supplying a longer show experience for devoted fans, as opposed to bringing in a new groups the way that going from two to three days permits (going from one to two the biggest change seems to be which exhbitors can now afford to take a chance with a show).
 
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