Yes, I Know About Windy City Comicon

I'm a bit behind on my letter-posting, but one thing I wanted to say as to a few letters I've received: not only am I totally aware of Windy City Comicon, I've written about it on this site, and if I still lived in Chicago I'd be first in line if not helping with programming.

What I was talking about when I suggested that as Emperor of Comics I'd put a not-Wizard comics convention into the city wasn't this kind of show, although -- although -- and please read this part, too, I'm really excited about WCC and I hope someday it is the kind of show I'm talking about if that's what it wants to become.

Basically, what I was saying I'd do as make-believe emperor is make someone like Reed Exhibitions put on a giant comics show in McCormick Place, maybe on an October weekend, called The Chicago Comic-Con. Or, if you prefer, that Windy City Comicon does such gobsmacking business the first year every big company thinks about exhibiting there in 2009 and every big creator thinks about going and they have that show. Whatever.

The point is, I think Chicago is best served by and overdue for a giant, jewel-of-industry show of the kind that Wizard World Chicago is clearly not becoming at this point, so when I'm playing make-believe emperor that's what I'm suggesting. I'm equally baffled that Chicago's never had a show like WCC before, just as I'm amazed that LA's never been able to sustain a small press show or that Las Vegas has never been able to support more than a retailers gathering. I'd be thrilled if by 2012 WCC became just such a show, but I didn't feel it necessary to take the time out to root for WCC just as I didn't take the time in my suggestions for trimming the Eisners to point out how already tight the Ignatzes are. Different essays, though; maybe your essay.

Again, that doesn't mean I hate smaller shows in general or this show in particular or don't believe they have the capacity to turn into a bigger show if that's what they want or that I'm not properly supporting people or whatever semantic/pseudo-ideological argument people sometimes bring to bear, so please nobody start. In fact, even though my point was what it was, I'm much more excited about the Windy City Comiccon because it exists in the real world, and I urge all of you Chicagoans to check it out.
 
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