Reed Exhibitions: March of Con-Quest? (Yeah. Ouch.) Yesterday I read over on Tony's blog about how the people behind the increasingly successful New York Comic Con have decided that starting in 2010 they would be launching a convention in Chicago the extended weekend of April 16-18. Overnight, more details came in from Reed Exhibitions, the organization which finally managed to make a successful go of what would have seemed to be an easy and obvious New York City comics convention (considering that both Marvel and DC have their main offices there), including that the New York Comic Con will be moving from its early year position (last year it had been in April, but this year it had to be moved back to February 6-8, this upcoming weekend, due to an inability to book the convention space in April) to roughly permanent dates in the fall starting October of 2010. The plan appears to be to try to set themselves up as the big alpha and omega comics convention events for the se...
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