I’ve seen evidence from a few of the smaller vendors that ECCC was very successful for them. So that’s my experience, but maybe I was a fluke? Moderators, after all, are small fish in the convention food chain. I’m sorry to any panelists and audience members who were expecting me to be there I wish I had known about it. It wasn’t on the official schedule sent to me by ECCC staff. Problem is, nobody at ECCC had told me I was supposed to moderate that panel. But on Sunday, I got a call from ECCC the panel that I was scheduled to moderate was about to begin. The second panel went off without a hitch. However, when I showed up at the first of two panels that I was confirmed to moderate, another moderator was there. This happens at shows all the time, and it’s not a big deal I eventually got everything in order, and the window staff was friendly and helpful. When I showed up to pick up my badge, I wasn’t on the list. Speaking personally as an ECCC panel moderator, a few problems materialized. ECCC director Jim Demonakos assured the media last year that ReedPOP wouldn’t affect the flavor of the convention at all, but comics people are resistant to change and prone to worry, so everyone had their feelers out for problems. This year was the first Emerald City Comicon under the management of national convention chain ReedPOP, and the local comics community was understandably nervous about what that might mean for the region’s largest convention.
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