Emerald City Comic Con

The Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC), formerly the Emerald City Comicon, is an annual comic book convention taking place in Seattle, Washington. 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 show expanded to a three-day event in 2011 and began using the entire convention center for the first time in 2013. 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.

Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC)
Status	Active
Genre	comic
Venue	Seattle Convention Center
Location(s)	Seattle, Washington
Country	USA
Inaugurated	2003
Attendance	98,000 in 2019
Organized by	ReedPop
Website	Official website

Programming

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. 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. CCG, RPG, and tabletop gaming is supported in specific areas of the convention center.

History

 

Banner across the convention center's escalators leading to the event at the 2008 event

The event began as the Emerald City ComiCon, a one-day event at the Qwest Field Events Center in 2003. It was founded by comics retailer and comic book creator Jim Demonakos of Mukilteo, Washington, and broke even with an attendance of 3,000 people.^[1] The event was acquired by Reed Exhibitions in 2015, after it had grown into a multi-day event at the Washington State Convention Center.^[2]

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.^[3][4] The rescheduled event was later cancelled in June and was replaced by a virtual event.^[5]

In 2021, the convention resumed as an in-person event, scheduled for December 2-5, 2021.^[6]

Locations and dates

Dates	Location	Attendance
February 9, 2003	Qwest Field - West Field Plaza Seattle, Washington	2,500
February 29, 2004	Qwest Field - West Field Plaza Seattle, Washington	3,000
February 5–6, 2005	Qwest Field Event Center Seattle, Washington
April 1–2, 2006	Qwest Field Event Center Seattle, Washington
March 31–April 1, 2007	Qwest Field Event Center Seattle, Washington	7,000
May 10–11, 2008	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	10,000
April 4–5, 2009	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	13,000
March 13–14, 2010	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	20,000
March 4–6, 2011	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	32,000
March 30–April 1, 2012	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	53,000
March 1–3, 2013	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	64,000 ^[7]
March 28–30, 2014	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	70,000 ^[8]
March 27–29, 2015	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	80,000
April 7–10, 2016	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	88,000^[9]
March 2–5, 2017	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	91,000^[10]
March 1–4, 2018	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	95,000^[11]
March 14–17, 2019	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	98,000^[12]
August 21–23, 2020^[4]	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	Cancelled
December 2-5, 2021^[6]	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington
August 18-21, 2022	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington	75,000^[13]
March 2-5, 2023	Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington

References

1. McInnis, Andrea (March 29, 2007). "Look! Up in Seattle! It's a comics convention". The Everett Herald. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
2. Brown, Molly (January 13, 2015). "Emerald City Comicon sold to pop culture events chain ReedPop in 'classic superhero team-up'". GeekWire. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
3. Oxley, Dyer (March 6, 2020). "Emerald City Comic Con 2020 has been postponed". KUOW. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
4. Talbott, Chris (March 16, 2020). "Emerald City Comic Con organizers work to reschedule a number of shows as coronavirus outbreak spreads". The Seattle Times. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
5. Craighead, Callie (June 16, 2020). "Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con and PAX West canceled for 2020 amid COVID-19 pandemic". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
6. "A Statement From Reedpop – Organizers Of Emerald City Comic Con". ECCC website. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
7. . Archived from the original on 2015-03-02. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
8. . Archived from the original on 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
9. "Fan FAQs". Emerald City Comicon. Retrieved May 12, 2017. December 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
10. . Archived from the original on 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
11. . Archived from the original on 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
12. . Archived from the original on 2019-05-31. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
13. "Frequently Asked Questions".

External links

 

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• Official website

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