Why is Eccc your favorite show?

I grew up in Seattle, and the idea of there being something this big and fun in a town that felt like a comic book wasteland to me in the 90′s is amazing.

I really like Jim Demonakos, who founded and is the director of the show. Long before most people in comics seemed to care about what I did Jim always treated me with a lot of respect. and I think he;s someone who is always thinking about making the best show he can.

ECCC does some really great stuff in separating the film/tv stuff from the comic stuff. Separate floors or alternate dimensions or something— I never see that stuff. They seem to work to be inclusive like the “Costumes Are Not Consent”  cosplay signs, and they just added “all gender bathrooms”

Aside from all that I just have the best time at the show, I like seeing the costumes,  I’ve had some of the best interactions with people who read my stuff there. I got to draw on a bass guitar owned by a guy who was trapped for long hours in an elevator with the MW trade. and sign King city cat stuffed animals by two ladies dressed as Joe and Sexica, I like seeing some of the same awesome people that I’d met year before. I talked one guy into buying his teenage daughter  an awful  “Bronies before HOEnies” t- shirt and then got to hear about the effects of that purchase the next year. bwa hahah

As a fan and reader of the stuff the guests they bring in are too exciting- I got to do a panel with Adam Warren last year, and meet and get a drawing from Kenichi Sonada. I got to meet EK Weaver, (TJ & AMAL WOOOOoo).. The year before that I got to meet Pen Ward ( I eventually worked on Adventure time.)

One year I got to stay up in the hotel bar picking Brian Stelfreeze brain about a trip to a Japanese comics festival.

It is the best time.

Some conventions feel draining and others renew my love of comics.

I do realllly like TCAF and Thought bubble too.