Chicago Comic Con ‘09 Wrap-Up!

August 18, 2009 on 5:44 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Well, last week was Chicago Comic Con, and it was AWESOME!! Exhausting, but awesome.

We had higher than ever attendance, in fact, it was our highest number of attendees ever at any convention we’ve ever held!! The dealer’s floor was PACKED! We had 100 more Artist Alley tables than last year, and we had almost 100 Media guests, our highest number at a show EVER!!!

This show absolutely broke records for us, and for a lot of our vendors, and our Artists.

Saturday afternoon I saw two Artists packing up to leave and I asked them why they were leaving so early, and they told me that they sold out of everything. They had nothing left. Unheard of!!

The panels were packed, the Q&A’s were awesome, and the nighttime programming and Meet and Greets ROCKED!!

The Media guests were super nice, and had fans lined up to meet them!

Highlights of the weekend for me….

Getting to introduce and moderate panels for Michelle Rodriguez and Kristanna Loken (both panels are available to watch on www.iclips.net). Both of these ladies are awesome! They both had great stories and are awesome to talk to.

Moderating the Star Wars Round Table. The back and forth banter was hilarious!

Seeing the footage from Mark Millar’s “Kick Ass!”. And the movie actually got picked up by a Studio in Chicago for release!!

Sitting in on the “Shooting the Sh!! with Mark Millar” panel. HILARIOUS!!

Getting a mention on the Thanks page of a comic (The Apocalypse Plan by Transfuzion Publishing).

Actually making it through Artists Alley and meeting (almost) all the Artists!

Well, I could sit here and write for hours on all the things that went on that weekend. Next time, you’ll just have to be there!

And of course, towards the end of the weekend, I ran into a guy that you all know and love, Edward James Olmos!!

I mentioned that I loved him on Battlestar! And then I told him I was a Cylon…