![]() ![]() It rubbed me wrong, but it’s the Expo’s perogative. The Comic Expo had a lot of indie creators, but they got lost in the shuffle for the most part, and many of the heavily promoted guests were charging for autographs. ![]() Where 100% of the guests at Cincy Comic Con were working pros, up and coming talent, and lots and lots of indie creators on artist alley, and the only thing that cost you money were physical goods-books, prints, sketches, etc. They are two different beasts, but they serve different purposes. There’s no way for me to talk about the Expo without framing it in reference to the Cincy Comic Con earlier in the month. Many of the guests at the Expo who were promoted heavily in the materials were elder statesmen of the medium, like George Perez and Marv Wolfman, Mark Bagley and Neal Adams, or they were more pop culture figures, such as Henry Winkler, Paul McGann and John Rhys-Davies. While there are certainly tons of comic book retailers and comic book related merchandise, most of the promotion seems to go in a different direction. After a long time of Cincinnati being one of those cities that gets passed over for not being the state capital, it took me by surprise that I had two conventions to go to and that they were in the same month.Īt the end of the day, Cincinnati Comic Expo might be a misnomer for the actual experience. The weekend of September 19-21 was Cincinnati’s second comic-based extravaganza, the Cincinnati Comic Expo. ![]()
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