[Groop] Mid-Ohio Con

Sun Oct 5 04:42:58 PDT 2008

Sorry I missed the con this year. Sounds like it was great. I wonder what small chain Sergio is talking about. I thought Ohio had the same chains as everyone else.

"Miserum alveus de spuma et improbitas"

--- On Sun, 10/5/08, janet at harriett.us <janet at harriett.us> wrote:

> From: janet at harriett.us <janet at harriett.us>
> Subject: [Groop] Mid-Ohio Con
> To: groop at groo.com
> Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 1:03 AM
> <div id=yiv1527463406><html><span
> style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">After
> we spent the day at Mid-Ohio Con, Elie observed that this is
> the con that people are trying to find when they complain
> about the lack of comics at San Diego Comic Con.  Where
> some cons like San Diego are pop culture conventions,
> Mid-Ohio is a real comc convention  This year, they
> only had three Media Guests, all of whom are known for
> acting in comic-book related TV/movies. 
> <br><br>This is the first con under the new
> owners of Mid-Ohio.  We noticed a few changes, mostly
> for the better.  They seem to have about the right
> panel density.  A film fest and two panel rooms, with
> one hour panels in each, seemed to allow for some
> interesting breaks in floor-walking time without the issue
> of all the must-see panels at the same time. 
> Artists' Alley has been rechristened Creators'
> Commons, and takes up about a quarter of the non-concession
> floor space (concessions are still outlandish...Five and a
> half bucks for a smoothie!).  Creator's Commons
> doesn't seem like the afterthought tucked into a disused
> corner of the convention hall as it is at some other
> cons.  Whether intentionally or not, the assortment of
> vendors has changed.  Some of the regulars from past
> Mid-Ohios were not there this year, but there were a lot of
> new ones, many of which were actual comic dealers.  It
> had been a while since we attended a con where the longboxes
> dominated the displays.  There was only one video
> pirate and no t-shirt vendors.  The turnover of vendors
> means that I missed a few of the regulars, but it made the
> con a lot fresher (the same cannot be said for some
> congoers, who managed to have Day 3 body odor three hours
> into the convention).<br><br>Near as we could
> tell, in terms of number of exhibitors, this is about the
> same size as it was in years past.  Now, though, it is
> spread through a larger room rather than crammed into every
> nook and cranny in the Hilton.  This makes it much
> easier and faster to navigate.  We found we could see
> everything we wanted in half a day.  Don't know
> whether that is good or bad.<br><br>ME was
> there, of course.  I was at his booth when a woman
> asked him for Groo's autograph, in what ME said is the
> first and so far only request of that nature.  Just as
> I was going to mention that Mark needs to come to Mid-Ohio
> more often because, unlike certain other cons he has gone
> too recently, we do not have a local cuisine to force on
> him, Mark mentioned that one of the things Sergio likes
> about his biennial trips to Mid-Ohio is a certain small
> chain of restaurants out
> here.<br><br>Janet<br></span></html>
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