Dear Nashville Fandom
Can we get our collective heads out of our asses Nashville comic geeks?
This is a town with a professional Hockey and NFL team. Yet we cannot do one damn great comic book show a year? Sure Sure, there is the one convention every October. But look, we have to co-opt that one out with Horror movie fans. I know even big conventions are not exactly kid friendly, but why do I have to wade through soft core porn actresses and 4th rate Z movie actors to meet a few comic professionals? What makes the horror convention angle even worse is that we already have a much better Horror Con every year in the spring! One with real horror stars, like ones you have actually seen movies of.
Furthermore, where are the comic pros?
Every year it seems the number of comic professionals at the show dwindles down. I remember the years we had people like Brian Stelfreeze and Gajin Studios there. I loved when I got to chat up Tony Moore, Eric Powell, and Phil Hester all at the same time while Tony was drawing a sketch. I hear Powell is going to only do one day this year and he has been the one constant at every con. If that is not a red flag to the people who put together the con, they will never get it.
The same dealers with the same stuff... and if I have to be talked down by that one dealer, the one who used to run that comic shop, you know, the one who thinks he is doing us all a favor by being there.... yeah I won't come to another show in my own backyard again.
More Sci Fi, less Horror, more comic pros, less comic dealers (or at least put them in a separate room like a damn decent convention does!). Pretty simple.
Don't give me any bullshit about this town not being able to support a large convention either. That is one excuse that doesn't fly in a city that hosts a very nice anime convention every year, the ONLY and GROWING reality show convention, a major tattoo trade show that also has a really great horror con attached to it, and FANFAIR aka CMT Musicfest, the biggest country music convention/festival in the world. If Nashville has the infrastructure, rooms, mass transit, and sites to hold these shows, they could do a real comic con.
So now, how do we get this ball rolling? A goal of a real professional comic book convention. Something the companies send editors and staff to. A show that drops rumors that send ripples out into fandom. Something worth at least a mention in Newsarama. If Charlotte and Atlanta can do them, we can too.
(P.S. Can we get a media blackout on Thong Girl? I mean that is embarrassing enough to Nashville comic fandom. Why do they interview her every single year?)
This is a town with a professional Hockey and NFL team. Yet we cannot do one damn great comic book show a year? Sure Sure, there is the one convention every October. But look, we have to co-opt that one out with Horror movie fans. I know even big conventions are not exactly kid friendly, but why do I have to wade through soft core porn actresses and 4th rate Z movie actors to meet a few comic professionals? What makes the horror convention angle even worse is that we already have a much better Horror Con every year in the spring! One with real horror stars, like ones you have actually seen movies of.
Furthermore, where are the comic pros?
Every year it seems the number of comic professionals at the show dwindles down. I remember the years we had people like Brian Stelfreeze and Gajin Studios there. I loved when I got to chat up Tony Moore, Eric Powell, and Phil Hester all at the same time while Tony was drawing a sketch. I hear Powell is going to only do one day this year and he has been the one constant at every con. If that is not a red flag to the people who put together the con, they will never get it.
The same dealers with the same stuff... and if I have to be talked down by that one dealer, the one who used to run that comic shop, you know, the one who thinks he is doing us all a favor by being there.... yeah I won't come to another show in my own backyard again.
More Sci Fi, less Horror, more comic pros, less comic dealers (or at least put them in a separate room like a damn decent convention does!). Pretty simple.
Don't give me any bullshit about this town not being able to support a large convention either. That is one excuse that doesn't fly in a city that hosts a very nice anime convention every year, the ONLY and GROWING reality show convention, a major tattoo trade show that also has a really great horror con attached to it, and FANFAIR aka CMT Musicfest, the biggest country music convention/festival in the world. If Nashville has the infrastructure, rooms, mass transit, and sites to hold these shows, they could do a real comic con.
So now, how do we get this ball rolling? A goal of a real professional comic book convention. Something the companies send editors and staff to. A show that drops rumors that send ripples out into fandom. Something worth at least a mention in Newsarama. If Charlotte and Atlanta can do them, we can too.
(P.S. Can we get a media blackout on Thong Girl? I mean that is embarrassing enough to Nashville comic fandom. Why do they interview her every single year?)