By Todd Allen

If you were planning on hitting the Las Vegas Comic Expo next weekend, you need to go to a different address.  Vegas experienced some flooding roughly 10 days ago, causing some problems for the original venue (Alexis Park All-Suite Resort) and prompting a last minute venue change to the Riviera.

Yes, that’s a comic convention on the Vegas Strip.  If you need to change up your reservations for the North side of the strip, do so now.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – ALERT – VENUE CHANGE – CELEBRITY UPDATE!
August 20, 2012

Las Vegas, NV –ALERT! Cheyenne Marketing announced today, Las Vegas Comic Expo has a venue change. Due to recent flooding in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Comic Expo will be moving to their new venue at The Riviera Hotel & Casino.

We regret any inconvenience this may cause and we wish Alexis Park All-Suite Resort the very best
in their recovery. Please contact Shawn Lane at Cheyenne Marketing, 702-228-0185 or by email at
[email protected] for all press inquiries.

Las Vegas Comic Expo (www.LasVegasComicExpo.com ) to be held on September 29-30, 2012 at the Riviera Hotel & Casino.

EVENT INFO:
WHAT: Las Vegas Comic Expo (A Comic Book, Entertainment & Pop Culture Convention)
WHERE: Riviera Hotel & Casino
2901 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV 89109
800-634-3420
WHEN: Saturday-Sunday September 29-30, 2012
WHO: Open to all ages. A family friendly event
COST: $25 Daily Admission
$40 Weekend Pass (Discounts available for advance ticket purchase)

Confirmed guests include Mike Mignola (Hellboy Creator); Len Wein (Swamp Thing, Wolverine); J. Scott
Campbell (The Amazing Spider-Man); Mark Brooks (X-men Legacy); Simon Bisley (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Heavy Metal Magazine); Eric Canete (Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin); Drew Johnson (Wonder Woman); as well as some of the artists behind the year’s most highly anticipated series “Before Watchmen” including Adam Hughes and JG Jones. Additionally, the man of many hats, Iain McCaig (Star Wars Episode I-III, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) will be appearing to share about his career as illustrator, cover artist, designer, director and producer!

JUST CONFIRMED:
Thomas Jane (TV show Hung and The Punisher), will be signing autographs from his booth along with Tim
Bradstreet for their company Raw Studios.
Tricia Helfer (Best known for Battlestar Galactica) will be taking photos and signing autographs on Saturday
September 29 and…

Super heroes are big business today. Any doubters can simply look at the film industry where just 3 movies;
Marvel’s The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, each debuted in the #1 position the week of their release and in total have cumulatively surpassed the $1 billion gross ticket sales.

Comic book folklore isn’t only limited to the big screen, one of the hottest shows is AMC’s The Walking Dead,
which is based on the comic series, whose #100 issue sold nearly 400,000 copies, making it the best selling comic book of the century.

Where some thought comic book culture was once for nerds, now its part of the mainstream pop culture of today where it’s “chic to be geek”. San Diego’s Comic Con brings a sellout crowd of over 125,000 attendees every year, which is explosive growth from its origins in the 1970’s where less than 1,000 showed up, and now brings in over $60 million in commerce to the local San Diego economy.

About Las Vegas Comic Expo | www.lasvegascomicexpo.com | www.facebook.com/lasvegascomicexpo
Charles Lee, organizer of the Las Vegas Comic Expo stated, “Las Vegas has widely been known as an ideal
destination for conventions. In speaking with comic book merchants and enthusiasts, there has been an
appetite for such an event for a long time.” This two-day event is a pop culture extravaganza touting scheduled appearances of more than 40 of the top names in comic books from the past and present. This event is spread across 3 exhibit halls and will be jam packed with exhibitors buying, selling, and trading rare collectibles, enjoying gaming areas, costume contests, entertaining panel discussions, and much more.

The purpose of the Las Vegas Comic Expo is to unite the fans and the celebrities within the comic book hobby world together in a fun, family friendly setting.

4 COMMENTS

  1. I hope this one isn’t being run by the Comic Con Committee rejects that put on that Mandalay Bay Halloween Show back in 2004. That show was a real stinker and so disorganized. My table was seated next to a bunch of fortune tellers who abandoned their table after they pickpocketed a few wallets and never came back to pack up their stuff on Sunday.

    ~

    Coat

  2. Cary, this is not run by those short term thinkers. Everything about that companies operation was designed for failure. This is the first convention for the guys putting on this Las Vegas Comic Expo, so there will be a bit of trial and error, but they do plan on doing this yearly. I’d recommend the drive out to Vegas for this.

  3. Not a bad layout. Located at the northern end of the strip, near the convention center. It’s got roller derby and a pinball hall of fame! (If the kids get bored, walk across the street to Circus Circus, which has an amusement park and circus.)

    That’s an impressive guest list for a first show! I hope it’s successful!

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