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King Con Brooklyn

A comic book convention actually about the comics!

by Josh Kurp   |   Nov 4, 2010

King Con Brooklyn

Jonathan Ames (Photo: Nadia Chaudhury, via Flickr)

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If the comic conventions in San Diego and Manhattan are a bit too mainstream for your liking, i.e. too many people dressed as Chewbacca, King Con is where you should be. From November 4-7, Brooklyn Lyceum will be home to comic books, graphic novels, a plethora Brooklyn-based illustrators and the people who love them.

Special guests include Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames (and the inspiration behind Super Ray, Dean Haspiel), Uncanny X-Men writer Chris Claremont, SMILE (A Dental Drama) scribe Raina Telgemeier and many more (full list here). There will also be panels on “Death of Print Media,” “Comics Publishing” and “Hips, Lips and Pencil Tips,” a conversation with female artists Paige Pumphrey, Laura Lee Gullidge, Jennifer Hayden, and moderated by writer Rachel Kramer Bussel.

Also, if you’re wondering why it was decided King Con should be the same weekend as the New York City Marathon, according to the convention’s website, “[The marathon] brings in hundreds of thousands of tourists and/or runners straight into Brooklyn. It also brings thousands of locals down to 4th Avenue. Both of these are good sources of eager attendees.”

If King Con can somehow get the Chilean miner inside the Lyceum…

For more information, please click here. Tickets cost $7/day; $10/weekend.