This is Comic Geekspeak episode 607, Steel CityCon and the Denver Con.

Welcome to the show. I'm Brian Christman. I'm Jamie D.

And sorry for no music today, but Brian's not here, so that's what you're going to go with.

He didn't go deaf.

That's right. There's no music because I can't have a damn thing to work.

This episode is sponsored by the Steel City Con, April 24th, 25th, and 26th out in Pittsburgh. We're looking forward to it. It's going to be a big show from what I hear. We're actually talking to the organizer, Dominic, in a few minutes. So you'll hear all about it. Yes. So actually, we got two interviews for you. The first is with Dominic from the Steel City Con. He's going to tell us all about that. After that, we have Bruce McIntosh, who is helping out with the Denver Con. Actually, the week before the Steel CityCon. But first, we have Dominic talking about the Steel CityCon. Okay, and on the phone with us is Dominic from the Steel City Comic Con. How you doing tonight, Dominic? Oh, I'm doing real good. Thank you very much for having me as a guest. Oh, thank you very much for joining us. We're here to talk about the Steel City Con, which is April 24th, 25th, and 26.

Why? Tell us a bit about it to start out with.

Well, the Steel City Con was actually formulated almost 20 years ago,

and basically it was formed as a place where people could go to find those toys and comic books

that they had when they were growing up,

but they kind of lost.

And an opportunity to get them back.

Over the years, it's grown into such a large event, bringing in not only artists,

but a wide variety of celebrities, media guests.

And really it's turned into much of a pulp culture event, if you will.

And so it has an appeal to a lot of different people and so forth.

Now, is this, have you had this before at the Expo Mart Center in the past?

I went to a Pittsburgh con years ago, and there was a toy for the same weekend.

Was that the same Steel CityCon?

You know what? Absolutely.

The Expo Mart was the venue for 19 of the last 20 years.

Unfortunately, the Expo Mart closed late last year.

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