The Guild was the winner of the YouTube, Yahoo and SXSW Best Web Series Awards for 2008 and recently won several Streamy Awards, including Best Comedy Web Series and Best Actress in a Comedy Web Series. She also created, writes and stars in the hit web series The Guild, which is in it's third season partnered with Microsoft and Xbox Live.
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Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, which was ranked in the Top 10 Best TV of 2008 by Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and People Magazine and won an Emmy in 2009. She had a recurring role as "Vi" in the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the ABC Family sitcom Roommates, as well as in recent guest acting appearances on Dollhouse and Lie to Me and coming up a recurring role on Eureka.įelicia is best known for her work in the web video world, behind and in front of the camera: She co-stars in Joss Whedon's Internet musical Dr. I just want to know when I pay my 50 bucks for a ticket what exactly I’m gonna get.Felicia Day has appeared as an actor on TV shows such as House, Strong Medicine, Monk, and in films such as Bring it on Again and the Emmy award-winning Warm Springs. They just need to figure out if they’re promoting the comics, or if they’re promoting the celebrity guests. They’ve got this aspect of the convention figured out, for sure. it was an impressive haul, if I do say so, and I had to exercise a lot of restraint. I walked away with a bunch of recent back issues for half price or so, a Lee/Kirby Thor, a copy of the first issue of Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I will say that the amount of vendors there with cheap comics was staggering. I couldn’t help but think, “Wow, I didn’t know the President was coming to Cincinnati to meet Lou Ferrigno.” It seemed off-key, especially given the national attitude towards open carry of assault weapons right now. The guns all had the orange tips that denoted them as toys, but the way most of them were being held in such a way that I walked in and legitimately thought there were armed guards. They were all dressed as STARS agents from Resident Evil, with prop guns. One prime example of that would be the gentlemen the Expo positioned as security figures, manning the exits and whatnot. Geek Out also throws a special love and hugs. It’s just not a comic booky thing, really.) The Expo seemed a little tone-deaf to me, in terms of what it was promoting. Grandmas Inflatables, Convention Foam Fighting, Michael Rambo Manning, Space Fairy and Cincinnati Comic Expo.
(Not to slam Tom + Chee-that place rules. More space and promotion was given to giant Lego models and the Tom + Chee stand inside the center.
My problems lay more with the organization of the convention itself. All the legendary creators were situated around the edge of the center, and the currently working ones like Mike McKone, Koi Pham and Allison Strejlau got relegated to the maze inside the room.Ī lot of my issues with the Expo honestly weren’t with the kind of affair it was-there’s a time and a place for a convention that’s based around the pop culture that comic books spawn, and this was the time and place for it. The floor itself was dominated by a huge vendor selling t-shirts that literally rose up two stories, taller than everything else in the convention center. It rubbed me wrong, but it’s the Expo’s perogative. The Comic Expo had a lot of indie creators, but they got lost in the shuffle for the most part, and many of the heavily promoted guests were charging for autographs. Where 100% of the guests at Cincy Comic Con were working pros, up and coming talent, and lots and lots of indie creators on artist alley, and the only thing that cost you money were physical goods-books, prints, sketches, etc. They are two different beasts, but they serve different purposes. There’s no way for me to talk about the Expo without framing it in reference to the Cincy Comic Con earlier in the month. Many of the guests at the Expo who were promoted heavily in the materials were elder statesmen of the medium, like George Perez and Marv Wolfman, Mark Bagley and Neal Adams, or they were more pop culture figures, such as Henry Winkler, Paul McGann and John Rhys-Davies. While there are certainly tons of comic book retailers and comic book related merchandise, most of the promotion seems to go in a different direction. After a long time of Cincinnati being one of those cities that gets passed over for not being the state capital, it took me by surprise that I had two conventions to go to and that they were in the same month.Īt the end of the day, Cincinnati Comic Expo might be a misnomer for the actual experience. The weekend of September 19-21 was Cincinnati’s second comic-based extravaganza, the Cincinnati Comic Expo.
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