Combined with the original Arch Building, the Seattle Convention Center now totals 1.5 million square feet making Comic Con’s 20th year its biggest yet. The Summit Building nearly doubles the size of the Seattle Convention Center adding 140,700 square feet of naturally lit lobby space and a 14,000-square-foot outdoor Garden Terrace. Seattle Convention Center’s recently completed Summit Building, location of the 2023 Emerald City Comic Con. Archived December 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
"Look! Up in Seattle! It's a comics convention". In 2021, the convention resumed as an in-person event, scheduled for December 2-5, 2021. The rescheduled event was later cancelled in June and was replaced by a virtual event. On March 6, 2020, ReedPop announced that the 2020 Emerald City Comic Con would be postponed from March 12–15 to August 21–23 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had been spreading in the Seattle area for several weeks. The event was acquired by Reed Exhibitions in 2015, after it had grown into a multi-day event at the Washington State Convention Center. It was founded by comics retailerand comic book creator Jim Demonakos of Mukilteo, Washington, and broke even with an attendance of 3,000 people. The event began as the Emerald City ComiCon, a one-day event at the Qwest Field Events Center in 2003. CCG, RPG, and tabletop gaming is supported in specific areas of the convention center.īanner across the convention center's escalators leading to the event at the 2008 event
It features a large and lively Exhibitor's hall with comics retailers from across the entire Pacific Northwest bringing a large stock of modern and vintage comics, as well as other products such as statues, action figures, models, etc. The convention features a wide array of activities and programming including industry guests, various discussion panels, celebrity signings and photo opportunities, prize drawings, and costume contests. In 2014, the Gaming portion of the show was moved to the third floor of the nearby Sheraton Seattle Hotel to make room for an expanded show floor. The show expanded to a three-day event in 2011 and began using the entire convention center for the first time in 2013. Originally taking place at the city's Qwest Field (first at West Field Plaza, then at the Event Center), the venue changed in 2008 to its current home at the Seattle Convention Center. The Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC), formerly the Emerald City Comicon, is an annual comic book convention taking place in Seattle, Washington. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) JSTOR ( June 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Emerald City Comic Con" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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