Washington DC Comicon Announced
- Posted by Johanna on April 16, 2010 at 8:41 am
- Category: Comic News
Two local promoters have teamed up to create a Washington, D.C. area comic convention, with the first event to be held May 2, the day after Free Comic Book Day.
Marc Nathan (Baltimore Comic-Con) and Brett Carreras (Virginia Comicon) are hosting the DC Comicon on Sunday, May 2, 2010, from 10-5 at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax. Admission to the show is $5. Guests include Frank Cho, Herb Trimpe, J.G. Jones, the Luna Brothers, and Jo Chen. There’s also a sanctioned Magic the Gathering tournament (entry fee $19-22) and a show-exclusive variant-cover Witchblade #136.
I won’t be able to go — Free Comic Book Day always is a great, but tiring, event, so I’ll need the day after to relax — but I’m glad to see more events in the area.
April 16, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Comics AND Magic the Gathering. I’m in.
April 18, 2010 at 9:58 AM
Would be nice if it was actually in DC. Fairfax isn’t exactly metro accessable.
April 18, 2010 at 11:22 AM
That is unfortunate. I’m not that familiar with the area, but I would think a university would be relatively easy to get to.
April 18, 2010 at 12:58 PM
It is accessible by bus from several Orange line metro stops. GMU is extremely metro accessible with a number of buses going directly to GMU. Use http://www.wmata.com/ to calculate the best one for you.
April 22, 2010 at 9:43 PM
I’m actually all the way at the other end of the Orange line, so it would be quite lengthy to do it by metro. I guess it would be more accurate to say that it is not that accessible from north eastern Maryland.
But that’s probably nit-picking. Still the distance and the fact that it is on a Sunday makes it very unlikely that I’ll attend.
Thanks for the Metro tip, that is good to know.
Jim