do my readin’ eyes deceive me?
What fresh un-hell is this?
Diamond Comic Distributors is Co-Sponsor … ADV Films, Marvel, and DC are Exhibiting … Midtown Comics to be Retail Sponsor
Fair Will be Open to Public
Norwalk, CT, June 8, 2005: Reed Exhibitions, the world’s largest organizer of business-to-business events, has today announced the launch of New York Comic-Con, a new trade as well as consumer event, which will focus on comics and all matters relating to comics and associated fields including graphic novels, manga, anime, games, film, television, toys, videogames, and licensing rights. The event will take place annually in New York City and will be designed to attract the loyal fan and avid collector, while also providing a unique and unprecedented business to business environment for comic book retailers, chain and independent booksellers, mass merchandisers, toy stores, libraries, and rights and licensing professionals. Organizers note that they also expect the event to attract considerable media interest, which is why they chose the New York City location. Other co-sponsors of New York Comic-Con, in addition to Diamond Comic Distributors, which is the world’s largest distributor of English-language comics and related merchandise, include ICv2, which publishes the leading Website and magazines for pop culture retailers in the comic, anime/manga, and games categories, as well as the Reed Business Information publications Publishers Weekly, Variety, Library Journal, and Playthings. Marvel, DC and ADV Films are among the many industry-leading companies who have already made a commitment to exhibit at the new convention.
Hrm.
I’ll believe it when I see it, as they say. See, I’m more cynical than you peeps take me for. And I’m not the only one.
(nipped from my friend Kelly Sue, who is training for a charity triathlon with fellow comics hottie Laurenn McCubbin. Donate, yeah?)
