ECCC 2019
Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC) returns to Seattle for the seventeenth year tomorrow. The show will run from Thursday, March 14 through Sunday, March 17.
For all the details, visit the ECCC 2019 website. Also, download the app (which has proven a bit glitchy in the early going around scheduling, where it fails on some schedule adds).
ECCC showrunner ReedPop expects 98.000 fans to attend the show over its 4 days.
Who to see
As in previous years, ECCC 2019 has attracted top entertainment industry talent to talk on the main stage, sign autographs and deliver photo ops.
Here are some of the celebrity highlights:
- A Boy Meets World reunion with Ben Savage, Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and William Daniels)
- Rupert Grint
- The Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi
- Katherine Barrell and Dominique Provost-Chalkley from Wynona Earp
- Sonequa Martin-Green, Rainn Wilson, Jason Issacs from Star Trek Discovery
- Much of the cast of Stranger Things. (Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Sadi Sink
- George Takei (Fabulous!)
- Gwendoline Christie (Winter is Coming, Star Wars already did).
- Ian Somerhalder (The Vampire Diaries)
- Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica, Independence Day)
- The team from Critical Role
What to do
Other activities and events of note include:
- Artist Alley with over 645 artists, writers, colorists and animators on WSCC Level 6.
- Expanded gaming on two floors in the TCC Lower Level and Level 1
- Dark Horse Comics will have a number of their writers and artists available for signings (usually free books and free signatures), along with exclusives.
ECCC Exclusives include (for all exclusives visit the ECCC 2019 website here):
- Figpin: Captain Marvel Starforce (3-inch tall and $20) and Spider-Max XL (6-inch tall and $30).
- Captain Marvel in Seattle (Keith Tucker, Booth 2433)
- Game of Throne Dothraki Map Marker ($30) Dark Horse Comics
- Harts Woodworks Wants (booth 1923)
A special shout out for Homegrown, the area of the floor that features local artists and craftspeople from around the North West.
Looking forward to the show. Comment if you are coming. Come find us and say hi!