Kevin Boyd

Just a little over a week away from MegaCon Tampa Bay 2017. Special guest announcement for MC Tampa attendees.... ED McGUINNESS will be at the show on Friday and Saturday!

So I don't think they knew, since we don't have the 2018 dates on the Fan Expo Dallas website yet. They asked me to confirm the dates, which I did and if you look on the 2018 schedule, you can see they've added it.

The latest Fan Expo store variant debuts at MegaCon Tampa Bay: MARVEL LEGACY #1 With art by Ed McGuinness

The Immortal Iron Fist has work that needs doing, so Mike Perkins sends along his apologies to MCTB as deadlines beckon. one more comics guest announcement coming! draft schedule is up!

That's more of a question for CGC, but generally don't they hold the books in an open invoice at the booth then go with you to the next creator and charge an extra $5 to do this?

With Sarasota so close, they could offer return Sunday... but that's up to them....

Brent Peeples and Emily Rose can't make it, Sam de la Rosa will take Emily's spot. Working on getting another guest.

GRAHAM McTAVISH the Hobbit movies, Outlander he's also the Saint of Killers on Preacher

STAN LEE he's coming back to Florida to aid with Hurricane relief fundraising efforts

Fan Expo Vancouver comics - wave 1! MIKE ZECK HUMBERTO RAMOS TONY MOORE YANICK PAQUETTE ANDY PRICE TIM BRADSTREET MICHAEL CHO PAT BRODERICK FRANCISCO HERRARA MIKE MCKONE JONBOY MEYERS MIKE PERKINS DAN PARENT GISELE LAGACE FERNANDO RUIZ ED BRISSON STEVE SKROCE TOM GRUMMETT LOVERN KINDZIERSKI JOHN BEATTY GERHARD

I'd be happy to bring in more talent, but I produce a list as directed.

An event can have lots of great comic guests that should in theory drive traffic to a show, and the attendance may still be lacking and vendors don't make those cheaper tables rates back and it's a loss for all, as we've seen in lots of places - including Dallas. I used to run my own comic focused event that had tons of great comic guests and cheaper tables and it barely moved the attendance needle and I chose to leave it because vendors were not doing well and the show was losing money. DFD attracts 20K attendees, people interested in pop culture, and it's done so with approx. 15 comic guests, mostly locals. You can say hey if there were more it might be double that, which is a great theory, and you might be right, however, you build on what you have established. Good for the vendors, they won't be competing for consumer dollars as much with a limited guest list.

Fan Expo Dallas is the 'premiere' show in Dallas. This is not Fan Expo Dallas, this is Dallas Fan Days. A smaller event held in the fall each year and I have the same discussion with people every year about this. We have different types of events. I have specific direction on what to do here and so I have gathered a cross section of solid pro guests that will be signing, sketching, selling prints and art.

Sorry you feel that way, our big comics show is Fan Expo Dallas. This is a show with a selection of comic guests. You may see one additional comics guest added.

All of the guests are alive.