Cartoon Conventions

Viga

We have anime conventions obviously. How come there isn't any (that I know anyway) general animation conventions? Do you think they would work? There's a fanbase for cartoons from everywhere. Would you attend one? I definitely would because I love cartoons as well as anime and films.

Jen

90% of all anime contains tentacle rape and minors having sex. Only morons, people with neck beards or ponytails, people who are not aware of the invention of soap, Ron Paul supporters, and pedophiles are drawn to those sick anime conventions. There would be no draw for a convention showing only normal family-oriented animation/cartoons because it won't attract enough freaks.

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90% of all anime contains tentacle rape and minors having sex. Only morons, people with neck beards, people who are not aware of the invention of soap, Ron Paul supporters, and pedophiles are drawn to those sick anime conventions. There would be no draw for a convention showing only normal family-oriented animation/cartoons because it won't attract enough freaks.

Exactly! Since everyone knows you determine a conventions' success by the number of freaks it draws.

trogdor9

Li_Akahi

We have anime conventions obviously. How come there isn't any (that I know anyway) general animation conventions? Do you think they would work? There's a fan base for cartoons from everywhere. Would you attend one? I definitely would because I love cartoons as well as anime and films.

I believe that the reason is because the majority of people believe that animation is for children, so all of the parents would take their children to the convention expecting Walt Disney World minus the attractions and find thousands of age 20+ geeks and people in most likely not family friendly costumes (because there would be a large group of people going to this from the anime convention attending group).

Churba

90% of all anime contains tentacle rape and minors having sex. Only morons, people with neck beards, people who are not aware of the invention of soap, Ron Paul supporters, and pedophiles are drawn to those sick anime conventions. There would be no draw for a convention showing only normal family-oriented animation/cartoons because it won't attract enough freaks.

This Forum is at least Partialy Anime-based - so what attracted you here?
Are you like the librarian stereotype, all prim and proper in public (pardon the purely painful alliteration, pals) but freaky deaky with extra squeaky behind closed doors?
Hmmm? Maybe a little case of hardcore denial - You decry it, but you just have this little voice saying "I love it, let's do it, let's go crazy, Let's rip off our prim librarian clothes and show everyone what we're really like, metaphorically speaking!" and you hate it - But just embrace it!
You tell us we're odd, but we all know that As soon as your roomate/family/partner is gone for a while, you whip on the comfy Jammies, a pint of Ben and Jerry's best, and Hook into some Trigun or Revolutionary girl Utena. Maybe you're even a closet Pumpkin scissors fan, who the hell knows.

Just as Obi-wan told Luke, "Let yourself go, trust your feelings" - And look how that whole debacle turned out. Saved the whole galaxy, he did, even if it was all fictional.

You're one of us, honey - just stop pretending, and believe in yourself enough to Be yourself to us. Let us cast aside our pasts of insulting each other, and bring you into the geeky fold as friends!

Viga

Jen is our forum's Ogiue!

Nuri

I have seen people dressed as American cartoon characters at anime cons pretty frequently. I'd bet there would be an audience for this type of con. The main logistical challenge would be advertising enough to draw a crowd and getting the licensing to do things. American companies tend to be a lot more picky about usage of their property at these things.

Eryn

It's not specifically a cartoon convention, but the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo certainly leaves a lot of room to support fans of all kinds of animation. A bunch of the guests had at least cartoon connections or were voice actors who did a lot of cartoon work in addition to anime. Among the guests this year who were specifically animation related were Bob Bowen (a director on American Dad and storyboard artist for Family Guy, Futurama, Drawn Together, and others), Eric Shaw (a staff writer on Spongebob Squarepants mainly, but has also written for Jim Henson Productions, Nick Jr and Walt Disney TV Animation), Stephen Silver (character designer at Disney who has designed for Kim Possible, Danny Phantom, and Clerks: The Animated Series), and Hye Jung Kim (animator on Oswald, Fairly OddParents, Dora and Avatar). As well, there were plenty of North American cartoon-based costumes that I could see around.

That con seems to be aiming for as much pan-geekism as possible, though. Comics, anime, animation, sci-fi, television, movies, video games, tabletop/card games - they were all represented. I would still like to see an animation-specific convention just to see how one would turn out.

Railith

Only morons, people with neck beards or ponytails, people who are not aware of the invention of soap, Ron Paul supporters, and pedophiles are drawn to those sick anime conventions.

I agree with this statement.

HungryJoe

Only morons, people with neck beards or ponytails, people who are not aware of the invention of soap, Ron Paul supporters, and pedophiles are drawn to those sick anime conventions.

That's a lot of people.

YoshoKatana

Jen is our forum's Ogiue!

Wow, you're absolutely correct!

As for the general cartoon convention idea: Most anime/comic conventions have a large western cartoon contingent, so I think most people who would otherwise attend a cartoon con are attending these.

rhinocero

The fanbase is different. It would be more of a trade and specialists convention, like a baseball card collectors convention or something like that. Not enough people are crazily into western animation to go crazy over it - it would never be the same as western conventions.