Comicons: Comics or just media

On March 28th of this year I attended my seventh comicon at the Emerald City event in Seattle WA. Over the years the vent has grown and grown. Numbers of attendees of cross players fan boys and fan girls have grown since my first experience in 2007. Of course in 2007 we didn't have Game of Thrones as a HBO series, Bad breaking Bad hadn't even aired yet so fandom hadn't quiet exploded.  Comicons have always been about more than just comics. They always welcomed Trekies, Star Wars fandom everything SCIFI. True for many years now comicons have become more than just comics, and they have been a huge pop culture media event. I was always skepticle about conventions because I'm not really all for dressing up, and never really liked the idea. Until I went to ECC for the first time in 2008 in hopes to meet Smallvilles Lara Valdermort who cancelled at the last minuet. She's always cancels conventions I wonder why. I read in an article about another Smallville star Erica Durrance that a fan tried to kiss her at a con.  ECC has grown in numbers since I went in 2007 and with these numbers massively growing I feel like comicon has becoming lass about comics. I mean go to con to at least in end after meeting the celebrity guest, and awesome cross players to indulge in what the title of the event suggest. My comics are becoming simply a side dish at comicons as cross playing or to make it more simplified sitting around in costumes and mingling ss taking over the medium. Comics themselves are being pushed replaced. This year at ECC I had a tough time finding comics as journeyed through a labyrinth of cross players advertiser and so on exhausting the efforts I set out far. I had fun and this year was a success for ECC but it could have better. There a big difference between comicons now and they were in early 2000's before 2010. The rise of comicons has a lot to with the revenge of the nerds factors, and that has little do with the 1984 film. The real revenge of the nerds has been in our everyday lives, through that were it had its biggest effect. In 2010 everyone ditched to long dead social network Myspace or went for the newly improved Face Book which now had a shared wall in which could see and interact with. Apple had introduced was still on the rise with their products with the IPAD in 2011 and Iphones becoming more popular than ever. You could say that Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg and the most infulencial names in the real revenge of nerds. In with that revenge the names of Steve Jobs and Mark Zukkerberg or just as influential in nerd culture such as Star Wars Video Games, Comicbooks and so forth. Everything about Nerd Culture comes together collectively and at comicons you might not be able to tell the nerd billionaire from the nerd that lives in his parents basement. But why must comicons push comics out. Its like going to a food convention and finding little food. More to the point its like when MTV stopped showing music videos 24/7. Soon they are just going to have to call comicon media con or cross player con. If not those options at least try to keep the comics a float.