{"id":741,"date":"2013-03-21T12:03:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T17:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/\/?p=741"},"modified":"2013-03-21T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T17:10:46","slug":"wizard-world-2011-originally-posted-8-15-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"WIZARD WORLD 2011 [*originally posted 8.15.11]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Wizard World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wizardworld.com\/home-ch.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-742\" alt=\"WWCC2011\" src=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/WWCC2011.jpg\" width=\"539\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/WWCC2011.jpg 962w, http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/WWCC2011-300x24.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our first official Comic Con came and went and overall I think it went well! I will admit I was kind of shocked that no publishers were there besides Top Cow. But I guess it&#8217;s become more of a toy fair \/ B list celebrity convention over the years. Seems like C2E2 has become Chicago&#8217;s more &#8220;legit&#8221; COMIC convention.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Anyway, we manged to sell just under 100 copies of the first issue to complete strangers as absolute &#8220;nobodies&#8221; in the business. For our first time out &#8211; I&#8217;ll take it&#8230; especially when 3 of the big dog comic shops in Chicago agree to stock the issue as well!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just glad we had the deadline to keep us all motivated and actually produce the thing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"facebook-like\"><fb:like layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/?p=741\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first official Comic Con came and went and overall I think it went well! I will admit I was kind of shocked that no publishers were there besides Top Cow. But I guess it&#8217;s become more of a toy [&hellip;] <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/?p=741\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}