SpringCon 2012

This Saturday and Sunday, May 19th and 20th, is the annual SpringCon comic book convention hosted by the Midwest Comic Book Association. Located in the Grandstand on the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, doors open at 10 AM and $11 gets you admission for both days while children 9 and under are free (and get a dollar off admission with a food shelf donation).  

Special guests this year include Fables writer Bill Willingham, Scrooge McDuck artist extraordinaire Don Rosa, and New Mutants artist and co-creator Bob McLeod, whose work we'll be covering in X-aminations in just a few months time. In addition, the Grandstand will be stuffed with creators, dealers and tons of great comic book swag. Panels run throughout both days, and, as always, Sunday afternoon closes out the show with a charity art auction, the best place to buy original art and help out a couple great causes (the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Lupus Foundation).

So if you're in the area this weekend or feel like making a trip, come check it out. And if you do, be sure to stop by the creator check-in table at some point and say hi to me and Mrs. Teebore. If you can't make it yourself, be sure to tell your friends.

More details, including the full guest and dealer list as well as the panel schedule, can be found on the MCBA website here.

SpringCon 2011

"X-amining X-Men #109" will post Friday, but in the meantime, I'd like to invite all our local readers to the Midwest Comic Book Association's annual two day SpringCon comic book convention at the Grandstand on the State Fair grounds. Great fun to be had for geeks of every age (but if you're over the age of nine, you'll have to pay to get in, and if you're under the age of nine, you probably shouldn't be reading this blog...).

More details can be found here, and if you do make it, be sure to stop by and say hello to me and Mrs. Teebore (we'll be there helping out all day, all weekend).

A Weekend at SpringCon

The re-positioning of the two day MCBA comic book convention from its traditional fall dates to ones in mid-May posed several questions: would we be able to book enough big-name creators (one of the stated reasons for the switch)? Would enough people attend, given the 20+ year history of having the two day show in the fall? Would basement-dwelling geeks be able to resist the lure of gorgeous Minnesota May weather?