#Cincinnati comic expo attendance plus#

#Cincinnati comic expo attendance plus#

Many of my local artist friends were in attendance at Anime Ohio, plus a lot of cosplayers! I’m sorry that I didn’t get a chance to walk around too often to take photos or video of the con, I was alone working my booth this time around.

All attendees were watch the cosplay contest taking place a few doors over. The vendor room ended up closing an hour early, at 6PM, because no attendees were in it and the vendors were left talking amongst themselves. By my observations, we had peak attendance between 10AM and 2PM before attendees left for the day. Speaking from a business point of view, by having a limited amount of guests, this made ticket prices and vendor table prices so much more reasonably priced! The only drawback I heard from people in attendance was that there wasn’t enough to do for the nine hours the con was open. There were a few panels and five special guests to the show: voice actor Beau Billingslea, voice actress Melissa Fehn, cosplayer Akakioga, cosplayer Paige Cordano, and cosplayer Hailey S. The expo is preparing for its biggest installment to date, which brings former president and chairman of Marvel Comics Stan Lee to the convention center this weekend. So many of the same staff that you see at CCE were present at Anime Ohio. Anime Ohio is hosted by the Cincinnati Comic Expo, our huge local comic con. It did move to the Crowne Plaza Cincinnati North in 2013, but has been in hiatus since.įrom talking to the other attendees of Anime Ohio, they were jazzed that a new anime convention was local to the area again. Theyve got a number of Star Wars guests: David Prowse, Ray Park, Billy D Williams, Tim Rose, as well as the King of Marvel himself, Stan Lee Needless to say I. Ikasucon moved up to Fort Wayne sometime around 2007, so Sugoicon at the Drawbridge Inn in Northern Kentucky was Cincinnati’s premier anime convention- until the Drawbridge Inn closed down a few years ago. I was wonder if any of you fine gentlemen will be facilitating the Cincinnati Comic Expo on September 23rd through 25th. A few years ago the Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky area used to play host to two conventions: Ikasucon and Sugoicon. I want to regale you with my experience at the first ever Anime Ohio convention in Cincinnati, Ohio.