Shortboxed LIVE: Santa Clara, CA May 5 [updated with photo recap] 2 2

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Shortboxed LIVE is back at the Santa Clara Convention Center on Sun, May 5. Met lots of boardies last year, and hope to see more this year! We've got another amazing lineup of dealers, so you can be sure there will be lots of nice books in the room 

You can check out some photos of the event from last year's thread here: 

 

Dealer lineup:

• A-1 Comics - Brian Peets - Sacramento, CA
• Amazing Heroes - Tysan James - Kirkland, WA
• Bedrock City - Richard Evans - Houston, TX
• Bird City Comics - Anthony Arollo - Phoenix, AZ
• Buzzard Bros - Greg Brock - Knoxville, TN
• Cape & Cowl - Eitan Manhoff - Oakland, CA
• Fantastic Worlds - Bill Ponsetti - Scottsdale, AZ
• Graham Crackers - Jamie Graham - Chicago, IL
• Harley Yee Rare Comics - Detroit, MI
• Heroes & Champions - Alan Bahr & Phil Schlaefer - Sunnyvale, CA
• House of Comics - Marc Newman - Berkeley, CA
• Lee's Comics - Lee Hester - San Jose, CA
• Peatmonster - Sean Cleveland - Santa Cruz, CA
• Red Hood Comics - Rob Isaac - Las Vegas, NV
• Reece's Rare Comics - Austin & Alex Reece - Baltimore, MD
• Retro Recollectibles - Michael Blowers - Fairport, NY
• Seeker's Eye - Eric Sexton-Dorsett - Portland, OR
• Superworld - Ted Vanliew - Holden, MA
• Torpedo Comics - Steve Houston - Las Vegas, NV
• Worldwide Comics - Stephen & Sharon Ritter - Fair Oaks Ranch, TX

Creator lineup:

• John Beatty
• Mateus Santolouco (coming from Brazil)
• Michael Cho (coming from Toronto)
• Kelley Jones
• Rose Besch
• Gerry Duggan
• Jason Shawn Alexander
• Mike Choi
• Jessica Fong
• John Giang
• Walden Wong
• Maria the Wolf

More details and tickets:

• Sunday, May 5
• 11am-5pm
• Parking is free
• Santa Clara Convention Center (10 mins from San Jose International Airport)
• Tickets available here: www.shortboxed.com/live 

Edited Tuesday at 10:30 PM by shortboxed
added CGC

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If you're wondering what the vibe is like, check out this quick 1:26 video from last year's show:

 

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For those attending, CGC will be onsite - not an authorized dealer, but official CGC will be accepting submissions for all collectibles (not just comics). If you're in/around the Bay Area, this will be a great opportunity to drop off submissions in person. 

 

[atomised]

see you there, should be fun!  

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On 4/23/2024 at 3:43 PM, atomised said:

see you there, should be fun!  

Glad to see you're coming! 

[AndyFish]

Had a great time there last year-- dropped a few $$$ on some great books-- got some early Batman's (2 and 4?) from Terry's booth.    They had a nice representation of Golden Age books.   Not planning on this year with being buried in deadlines, but I wouldn't be shocked if something changed my mind last minute.

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On 4/27/2024 at 6:40 PM, AndyFish said:

Had a great time there last year-- dropped a few $$$ on some great books-- got some early Batman's (2 and 4?) from Terry's booth.    They had a nice representation of Golden Age books.   Not planning on this year with being buried in deadlines, but I wouldn't be shocked if something changed my mind last minute.

Glad to hear you had a good time! Can confirm there will be even more amazing GA this year.

Fingers crossed those deadlines magically disappear before the weekend 

[Changer]

I'll be there. 

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On 5/3/2024 at 8:17 PM, Changer said:

I'll be there. 

Awesome! Glad you can make it 

Any dealers in particular you're looking forward to seeing?

[MrBedrock]

Me

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It's a rainy day for set up.

[MrBedrock]

The clouds parted and set went smoothly!

[HouseofComics.Com]

Great event--thank you to Gene and Kevin and everyone else. Very professional event, nice crowd. Line for CGC dropoff was impressive.

This year and last year was the first time for certain national dealers visiting our area since the old Moscone Wondercon days. Plus some big name up and comers.

[woowoo]

Wow @shortboxedI have been getting so many e-mails from you and Link last few months that I thought I was getting a monthly auction e-mail or auction ends today from Link 5 times a day.

I never read the convention on the 5th.

I am upset that I did not go to this convention it is the best since wonder-con sorry I missed it. 

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Thanks to everyone who came! Met a bunch of boardies and hope to see even more of you next year! -Gene 

Long line to get in, but moved very quickly. First 250 attendees received a free swag bag with comics from Dark Horse, Image, and/or Boom Studios, some lucky attendees got hardcovers, trades and ratio variants. 

We took auction consignments onsite. Stan Lee signed Cap 3 coming up in our first Golden Age-only auction in a couple weeks!

Kelley Jones and John Beatty had a line of fans most of the day.

Main stage was in the same room so you could browse comics and catch panels without missing out. 

TMNT artist Mateus Santolouco came all the way from Brazil to be part of the show!

Bill Ponseti wall

Mr. Bedrock 

Peat Monster had some amazing GA in his booth

I shared a few mildly interesting insights during my keynote. For the first time in 4 years, X-Men is outselling Amazing Spider-Man on Shortboxed. Will this hold for the year?

Artist Jason Shawn Alexander did an interview on stage

Dr. Adam Rapp gave a fascinating talk on American history through the lens of comic books. The talk will be added to YouTube soon and I'll share it here. Worth a watch!

YouTuber Swagglehaus Comics gave a talk on the state of the market and collecting.

We took pics of booths, too. Still processing and will add those later!

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Snagged a few pics of some dealer booths during setup. Not all the dealers at the show (there were 20) but just the ones who set up early