Pittsburgh Comicon 2010- Geeky Fun in the Rust Belt

The Pittsburgh Comicon took place last weekend and as usual, it was a blast. People gathered from far and wide to meet comic writers and artists, meet each other and grab some graphic novels and comics at a good price. The show organizers do a great job of providing a mix of guests from Silver Age all-stars, to today's top talent and indy publishers on their way up. It's fun to take a few minutes and speak with everyone in this sort of atmosphere. Writers will give you tips and artists will do commissions. I managed to get an original Spectre sketch from Tom Mandrake:


The venue for the show is the newly built Monroeville Convention Center. It's a very nice facility offering plenty of room, good lighting and nice concessions. The show is a little over an hour away and worth it for the kids even if you don't like comics.

We attended Sunday, which is family day, so there was free admission for the kids, sci-fi crafts, drawing classes and a costume contest. Cosplay is big at conventions. People of all ages take the opportunity to dress up as comic and movie characters. It's readily apparent that some people take a great deal of time to put their costumes together. We took a bunch of pictures:

Some of the costume contest contestants

One of the X-Men

Zombie Maddox: Reanimated to replace Roethlisberger during the suspension (his joke)

Harleyquinns

The Hellfire Club

Scarlet Witch

A Family of Fett

Costume Contest Judge Firestar

Iron Man