Overview

This past weekend Alan and Stephen attended Fan Expo in Cleveland. This is the old Wizard World convention.

While we enjoy the comics, there is so much more to enjoy. Both Stephen and Alan enjoy supporting artists and other creators by purchasing their wares.

There are also tons of great speakers and talks. And plenty of timeto talk to great artists that you’ve admired for years.

Recommendations

https://fanexpohq.com/fanexpocleveland/

All Comics

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http://www.travislangley.info/

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Transcript

[00:00:36] Alan: Okay. We were both at the fan expo in Cleveland this weekend. What were your highlights? What did you like?

[00:00:43] Stephen: There were a lot of things. First of all, if anybody listening doesn’t know what van expo is. It’s what used to be called Wizarding world here, but they disappeared. Whatever. Yeah. A wizard world. Yes.

It’s a convention. It’s a fan. It’s

[00:00:59] Alan: like [00:01:00] even whose rule is based on the Comicons of old until San Diego asserted its claim to the term Comicon. And so now New York and Chicago, and maybe there’s a couple others that could be grandfathered in, but they don’t. Now they’re a branding, a new with various different things.

And especially because it’s no longer just comics, it’s everything. It’s Harry Potter and it’s professional wrestling and it’s anime and it’s a lots of TV and movies and all that kind of stuff. And. But it’s right along our lines, but to run this geekery fast, they have every single type of fan base covered.

[00:01:36] Stephen: And you and I mentioned that too, cause we’re old enough to remember, uh, when a comic convention was like an old swap meet, like for car parts or electronics, you’ve been to plenty of electronic stuff where it was really cool back in the nineties with all the parts and stuff,

[00:01:53] Alan: the new and the show floor was nothing but comic books.

And this is before they didn’t have pull [00:02:00] bookstores full of graphic novels and stuff like that. This was box after box of comic books. Most of them not slapped or some graded. Plastic bags. And with the dealers grading back when the Overstreet guide is what, let you know what the difference was between mint near mint, very fine, et cetera, et cetera.

But it was nowhere near the precision that CGC and CBCs and others now have specific.

[00:02:25] Stephen: Okay. All right. So it’s totally different. So like you said, it’s a geeky nerdy fan thing, but there’s a lot of, it’s more pop culture now there’s because of the MCU, a large part of grew people in people that didn’t use to oh, comic books, superheroes, other for kids is wow.

Ironman is so freaking cool. It’s the catcher day song. Now I’m the one that’s cool. But we were just 30 years ahead of our time.

[00:02:54] Alan: Exactly. It is a celebration like that, where, and it isn’t just comic books.