The Weekend’s Developing Con News

* no lie: I'd totally forgotten there was a Wizard Entertainment show in Anaheim this weekend. I wouldn't go to such a show if I lived in Southern California, so I can't make that claim via a stand-alone post. There's just nothing there for me that's what I enjoy about comics, although god bless the people that do find stuff to do at such a show, whether it's meeting Steve Garvey or the local Jedi Guild or what relatively few comics guests there are on hand. This video of the first day reveals mostly empty aisles in the background of every picture and a full-on hoochie dance of slatternly-looking women in costumes evocative of various female genre characters drawing maybe 100 people in a tight circle for their, um, performance. Rob Liefeld has a more positive outlook from the convention floor. I imagine that they'll do just fine on a Saturday. I don't know anyone who's believed an official Wizard attendance report in their entire history of doing conventions, so I'm afraid it's a lot of guess-work.

* the Athens, Georgia-based small press comics show FLUKE is today. All the google-able links to a potential web site seem broken to me, and while Heidi MacDonald seems to have received a press release, I don't think I did. I would go to this one if I were nearby, so I'll see if I can scrounge up a poster. [long pause; typing in other tabs] Okay, I wasn't able to do so, but I did find the local free weekly illustration I'm excerpting here and here's a nice review of the cool-looking anthology you get as part of the price of the $5 admission.

* strangely, FLUKE is not even the most prominent show taking place in a city called Athens this weekend. Now that's a crowded convention calendar.

* you can find round-ups of the news from C2E2 like this one scattered around the Internet. I won't write one until Monday, but it's worth noting that the interest of companies in terms of making publishing announcement is one emerging measure of a comics convention's general vitality. So C2E2 looks like it will do very well on that score. There aren't a whole lot of pictures of the convention floor from which one can make background assessments -- this one looks like the crowds were light but not Friday-embarrassing -- and no one in the comics media seems interested in reporting on this aspect of the show, at least no one I'm reading. Update: Okay, Calvin Reid of PW twittered about it; as suspected crowds were light on Friday. He also suggests here that Saturday has seen the usual uptick.
 
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