So says the Forbidden Planet International blog. There were a
lot of moaners, many tweeting under pseudonyms or just being two-faced
(one complainee was all smiles with the organisers when I saw him).
I posted the following response
This was the first year that the Expo did not have Mike Allwood as organiser. The new organisers have some lessons to learn but I do think certain people are moaning for the sake of it. Steve Tanner of Time Bomb Comics launched his new title Kronos City at the expo and made it clear he did better this year than 2010/2011 combined! Several other publishers were doing really well and some were selling out of books (Cinebooks the 9th Art are always selling out of books so I’m not includinmg them!).
Several of the usual dealers in old comics were not there but Nostalgia Comics seemed to be doing okay and had reasonably priced comics. Others were so highly priced it was unbelievable.
I think combining the talks venue with a dealer room might draw more people to it.
I was posting schedule of events for a month before the event and even announced that Denny O’Neill could not attend due to ill health. Even so, there was a printed schedule at the event but people just were not looking and some moaning about no goody bag.
Bristol Expo has always been one of the most popular UK events and even with the proliferation of new events I am sure it will remain so. Give the new organisers a chance.
I posted the following response
This was the first year that the Expo did not have Mike Allwood as organiser. The new organisers have some lessons to learn but I do think certain people are moaning for the sake of it. Steve Tanner of Time Bomb Comics launched his new title Kronos City at the expo and made it clear he did better this year than 2010/2011 combined! Several other publishers were doing really well and some were selling out of books (Cinebooks the 9th Art are always selling out of books so I’m not includinmg them!).
Several of the usual dealers in old comics were not there but Nostalgia Comics seemed to be doing okay and had reasonably priced comics. Others were so highly priced it was unbelievable.
I think combining the talks venue with a dealer room might draw more people to it.
I was posting schedule of events for a month before the event and even announced that Denny O’Neill could not attend due to ill health. Even so, there was a printed schedule at the event but people just were not looking and some moaning about no goody bag.
Bristol Expo has always been one of the most popular UK events and even with the proliferation of new events I am sure it will remain so. Give the new organisers a chance.
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