In 2004 or thereabouts, while on winter break from college, a friend of mine suggested, “Hey, we should totally go to Otakon this year!” I at that point only had a slight familiarity with cosplay and knew next to nothing about Otakon, or conventions in general. Our journey to Baltimore for the convention was, for […]
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Ari Rockefeller presents Anime NEXT 2010 – Reporting from Everywhere except behind a Table in the Dealer’s Room
July 2nd, 2010 Ari Rockefeller
When last I was at Anime NEXT, it was the ’09 event at the previous year. Back then, I saw the convention as a spur-of-the-moment affair – somewhere between a tune-up for Otakon and a weekend long distraction. There were times last year when the con seemed to really drag on, mostly because I spent […]
Big Apple Comic Con… FAIL!
October 18th, 2009 DJ Ranma S
For years (going back to 98 for me), there was a local comic book convention called Big Apple Comic Con or Big Apple Con for some. I would day trip there with my friends and check out the stuff for sale. There were just as many comic book dealers as there were bootleggers there, I […]