2069 - Looking Ahead to Comic Con Oakland with Jim Demonakos

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4.3 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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There’s a new convention happening this weekend in California called Comic Con Oakland and we’re delighted to bring back Director, Writer and Event Organizer Jim Demonakos to learn all about it! We talk with Jim about developing the new convention for the Bay Area, building a guest list, Panel programming, fostering a good community around comics, collecting original art, and other Convention and Geek Chat! (1:10:25)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geekspeak episode
0:02.0	2069, looking ahead to Comic-Con Oakland
0:05.7	with Jim DeMoncos.
0:12.3	You got it on Wednesday, and it was like about it going to the bottom buff.
0:17.2	These guys will talk about it, everything the geeks love,
0:19.9	from case of laser beads, opinions like theions like the seasons on everything you read.
0:23.6	Comic, movie, game, toy, artists, come.
0:27.6	Comic, speak, comic, comic, comic, come, comic, come, comic, speak.
0:30.6	Comic, come, comic, come, comic, speak.
0:32.6	Come, comic, come, comic, geek speak, comic, come, comic, geek.
0:35.6	Uniting the world's, mightiest heroes.
0:38.9	This is...
0:40.3	Welcome to the show.
0:42.4	I'm Brian Deemer.
0:43.5	I'm Shane Kelly.
0:45.1	I'm Peter Rios.
0:46.7	And I'm Brian Christman.
0:51.6	If it would have been cooler as it was two days ago i'd have had an r2d2 sweatshirt on
0:59.2	that looks like his body has you put the hood up it's the but the bubble so cool yeah
1:05.2	oh right yeah i was just at disneyland uh there's a couple months I went with like my brother's family
1:12.9	and they had this like button up
1:16.2	R2 shirt and I was like well
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