Word: expos
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...Emergency Relief" (Alternative Comics; 208pp.;$14.95) was started the weekend after Tuesday the eleventh. The Small Press Expo, a convention for independent publishers, had been scheduled to convene in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. When it got cancelled a lot of very expressive people were left with free time and lousy feelings. Jeff Mason, publisher of Alternative Comics, began organizing a benefit book which quickly grew into trade-paperback length...
...people need to take their minds off of the daily horrors. I do not anticipate a sales slump," says Jim Valentino, Publisher of Image comics. Very small publishers and their creators may have experienced a short-term business side effect when an important convention was cancelled. The Small Press Expo was scheduled to meet in Bethesda Maryland, outside Washington D.C. the weekend following September 11. Sales at the convention make up a large portion of indy publisher's already meager incomes...
...last week's all-candy expo in Chicago, samples of Torture Scorchers, a new cayenne-pepper-coated confection, were distributed with cups of water. Candymakers are hoping other sweet newcomers will cause a similar sensation...
GREATEST REGENERATION "Massively multiplayer" games--played online with hundreds or thousands of real people--were the rage at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week. Few were as ambitious as World War II Online: Blitzkrieg from Playnet. Starting this fall, you can pay $9.99 a month to re-enact the great battles and try to claw your way up the ranks to Supreme Commander...
...officially commences this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, and there will be business casualties. Both systems are scheduled for fall release. The winner could easily oust Sony's PlayStation 2 from the top of the charts, while the loser could just as easily go the way of Sega's defunct Dreamcast, which sold only half its projected 6 million units before Sega pulled the plug...