Comments on: Shamus pushes back Chicago Comic Con

By: jon-el

jon-el — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:23:17 +0000

“The best part has and always will be Artist Alley.”

And that has been steadily going downhill. Wizard just doesn’t get the draw (pardon the pun) of big time artists. Sure, Howard Chaykin, Mike and Laura Allred and Matt Wagner were there in 2009, but that’s it. (And I want to thank each of them for showing up!)

Baltimore, meanwhile, had 20 big name creators.

Shoot, I know comic fans that fly from Chicago to Baltimore to attend a decent con.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:55:13 +0000

Whatever. I just want that sleazy dork Shamus to fail for his purposeful screwing with NYCC.

By: BookWyrm

BookWyrm — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:53:36 +0000

Well, the only alternative I can offer is, if anyone is willing to make the trip, there’s always I-CON 29 at SUNY Stony Brook, (Long Island) NY. The website is http://www.iconsf.org.

By: Sham-wow

Sham-wow — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:06:08 +0000

notice that Gareb has the word SHAM in his name.
Go away Wizard, you’ve destroyed the comic book hobby enough

By: dj4our

dj4our — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:37:57 +0000

This year’s “celebrity” autographs was outta hand! Taylor Dayne? Jake Busey!?! Please! And if you wanted an autograph by Rhona Mitra you had to pay an arm and a leg and then some. Forget it! The entire convention has lost any luster. Like someone else said here, I only went cuz I got in for free and even then….I was bored! The best part has and always will be Artist Alley.

By: snikt snakt

snikt snakt — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:31:45 +0000

hey Chuck, speak for yourself buddy, the virgin fanboys NEED those strippers, its as close to a real women most of them will ever get to!!!

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:11:04 +0000

now if only they’d do this with NYCC and big apple Gareb Shamus please just change the dates so that yours is a little before or after the show.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:00:36 +0000

Hey Chuck, Lou Ferrigno is awesome. If he had his own convention I’d go to it.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:31:17 +0000

He’s backing out because half of his “Special Guests” are fringe characters who have had 5 second cameos in the Star Wars films! They will be going to the Lucas event and blowing him off, so he’d be stuck with old wrestlers and Lou Ferrigno. Wizard’s show is a ridiculous sprawl of D-List celebrities and strippers mixed fewer and fewer comic creators and retailers every year. I just wish they would go away.

By: Vinnie Bartilucci

Vinnie Bartilucci — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:57:41 +0000

He’s blinking for Star Wars/Lucas, not for Reed.

But ironically, I think it’s one show they COULD “compete” against, as I think the crossover between die-hard Star Wars fans and comics fans is not a big as people think. The kind of SW fan that would go to the Celebration surely reads comics, but more likely ONLY reads Star Wars comics, or perhaps other Sci-Fi adaptation books.

More likely there are a few publishers (Dark Horse leaps to mind) who do the Star Wars books who will go to the celebration and skip Wizard entirely.

Of course, moving the Wizard show also places it only one week away from the Blatimore Comic-Con. hopefully that won’t affect its ability to draw guests who may hesitate about two shows two weekends in a row.

By: jon-el

jon-el — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:30:42 +0000

Shamus is a shmuck. The Chicago comic-con used to be great. But Wizard has destroyed the show so badly, that they even had to remove their own name from it. Notice that they’re not calling it Wizard World Chicago anymore? Brand re-imaging is only necessary when the brand is so damaged that nothing can salvage it.

2008 show had a dozen empty vendor booths
2009 didn’t have DC/Marvel/Dark Horse
2010 won’t have me

BTW – The only reason I’ve gone the past couple of years was because I got free tix.

By: IJones

IJones — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:26:24 +0000

Wouldn’t that be nice if the ice was thawing? But, he knows the fans will choose Star wars over him. The same will come to pass with NYCC.