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10/30/2018

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Fans come from all walks of life. I've definitely seen situations where a con center had more than one event scheduled for the same weekend, and while there's often a bit of awkwardness, it can sometimes lead to entertaining encounters. You never know when someone who has to attend a work-related con will look at cosplayers and wish they were on the other side having fun.

​The event that inspired this particular strip, however, was not quite the same situation. It was the dual-booking of the Greater Columbus Convention Center with both
Matsuricon 2018 and a Republican fundraising dinner, which was attended at the last minute by President Trump. While I typically try to avoid bringing up politics too much in my work, I think it would be fair to say that the atmosphere was rather tense all around. Kudos to the Matsuricon staff for their handling of an extraordinary and difficult situation.
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Kaji
10/30/2018 13:33:45

My brother went to a convention at the Gaylord (believe it was Katsucon?) where not only did they have a major anime convention going on, but also a Marine Corps unit that was celebrating its anniversary and a Southern Baptist conference all on the same weekend. The Marines were pretty cool with it; the Baptists got a little annoyed when they re-enacted the Crucifixion with Wolfwood's cross and a Jesus cosplayer...

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11/3/2018 15:21:53

I heard about that Katsucon! It sounded crazy!

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saint
10/30/2018 15:34:56

One year, they double booked Dragon*Con's first two days with the Southern Baptist Convention's last two days.

Hy-ster-ical. Everyone got along great, but you had these matronly church ladies in their finest church outfits complete with ornate hats, and Dragon*Con goers walking around them wearing not much more than body paint and strategically placed cloth in some cases, along with the rest of the usual cosplay.

Amazingly, everyone got along great, no frownie looks or comments, just compliments going both ways (on their hats and our costumes).

I just know somewhere the hotel agent who booked that was laughing their butts off.

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11/3/2018 15:23:28

I'm glad to hear that turned out well! It does sound like a time bomb waiting to go off.

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Akkeri
1/25/2019 15:41:50

Haha at last year's Oz Comic Con in Sydney, we had the main hall and everything but in one of the other smaller halls there was a psycologist's convention going on... they probably had a lot of great case studies...

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Ray
4/27/2019 09:17:12

I remember meeting someone who learned about Ohayocon because they were part of the one cheerleading competition that's always there and basically ditched the competition to go to the con

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