Emerald City Comic Con
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Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC) | |
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The Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC), formerly the Emerald City Comicon, is an annual
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
gaming is supported in specific areas of the convention center.History
The event began as the Emerald City ComiCon, a one-day event at the
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 |
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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
- ^ McInnis, Andrea (March 29, 2007). "Look! Up in Seattle! It's a comics convention". The Everett Herald. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Oxley, Dyer (March 6, 2020). "Emerald City Comic Con 2020 has been postponed". KUOW. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "A Statement From Reedpop – Organizers Of Emerald City Comic Con". ECCC website. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
- ^ "Emerald City Comicon • Just out of curiosity, do you know the attendance". Archived from the original on 2015-03-02. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ "Emerald City Comicon • I was just wondering if you had the total number of attendees for 2014?". Archived from the original on 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ^ "Fan FAQs". Emerald City Comicon. Retrieved May 12, 2017. Archived December 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "ECCC Fan FAQs". Archived from the original on 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- ^ "ECCC Fan FAQs". Archived from the original on 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- ^ "ECCC Fan FAQs". Archived from the original on 2019-05-31. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions".