How Important Are Conventions to You?

[slg_news]

That was an eerie bit of silence, wasn't it? One thing about Comic-Con, it makes everything just stop for a while, and as much as I want to keep up the blog, it doesn't work out. Comic-Con is a huge undertaking, not in the least because it takes the efforts of every single person in the office, plus a few ringers brought in to kick ass at the booth

Comments

[vee_ecks]

I haven't paid much attention to Comic-Con, as regards comics, since it turned into primarily a video game and movie fest in the last decade. It sure is neat when the secret trailers for upcoming genre movies get leaked, but I don't even remember the last time I paid attention to any news about comics coming out of San Diego.

[slg_news]

There isn't really much news about comics, you're right. But I don't really regard it as a news-feeding event. The signal-to-noise ratio is just not conducive for it. What I'm talking about here is actual interaction, not press releases.

There really isn't much in the way video games there that I saw, actually.

[vee_ecks]

Oh, I'd gotten the impression there was, in years past. In terms of interaction, I just don't go to cons, so I'm probably not the reader you wanted to hear from.

[slg_news]

No, there was comics news, but there's just not a lot of it reaching fans, is what I mean. Smaller companies like ours have little chance of our news getting heard, unless it's something like our Disney deal a couple years back. It's good feedback to know, though -- we need to use the convention to leverage coverage, but it's so hard when you're competing with the likes of Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century Fox.

[vee_ecks]

Yeah, and that's why I stopped paying attention to news from San Diego a while back. There was a point in the nineties when I'd hear about cool new indie comics stuff and run across lots of interviews from creators and whatnot, and then within a few years it seemed like it was all big budget movies and superhero comics. Don't care about superhero comics, and I can get my movie scoops elsewhere if I want them.