I don’t remember whether I said this before or not, but this was my first Chicago con since the first year Wizard took it over. When I mentioned that to some staffers, they said this was their tenth anniversary running it. My, how time flies. The official attendance figures are now available: Wizard World, the country’s foremost touring event for pop culture and comic books, announced today that it once again exceeded attendance expectations with its tenth annual Chicago event […]

As if my three posts weren’t enough, here’s some other links: Heidi MacDonald sums up some links and concludes “Really, WW Chicago is a major regional show, but any pretense that it is even in the same league as San Diego’s multi media Conmageddon is silly.” Kris Dresen sounds about how I feel (link no longer available): It was all just so disappointing to me. I remember having a table at the last three (and first Wizard World) Chicago Cons. […]

I just saw something that suggests Wizard is claiming 200,000 people attended their show over all four days. (Wizard probably follows the method of counting a three-day pass as three attendances. Or, come to think of it, four, considering Preview Night.) I sure hope I misread that, because it’s nowhere near the truth, based on what I saw Thursday and Friday and what a retailer friend told me about business the rest of the weekend. Preview Night, Thursday from 4-7, […]

I only went Friday to Wizard World Chicago, and that was plenty for me. I was hoping to have a writeup up already, but I’ve been visiting old friends and going to a wedding instead, so Bill beat me to it in getting up his experiences. Bill mentions a sketch Paul Sizer did for me as a surprise, of me with a giant “hammer of snark”. I couldn’t have gotten through the show without Paul, and I really appreciate having […]