Frankie's Blog — Emerald City Comic Con

Written by Angela Rairden Seattle’s Emerald City Comic Con is one of the largest comic cons on the West Coast and, prior to the pandemic at least, it’s a con that keeps growing every year. Began in 2003 as a one-day event at Qwest Field Events Center with an attendance of only 2,500, ECCC has evolved to a 4-day extravaganza that takes over the Washington State Convention Center as well as several of the surrounding hotels. In 2019, attendance had soared to nearly 100,000 people. While Covid caused the cancellation 2020’s ECCC, the con returned in December of 2021 (which...

Emerald City Comicon descended upon the city of Seattle the weekend of December 2nd through 5th, 2021. Frankie’s Comics had a large booth located in the vendor’s hall and I stopped by it every day that I attended the convention. At their booth, Frankie’s hosted three remarkable comic book artists – Rose Besch, Ivan Tao, and Jonboy Meyers. This was my first time meeting any of these artists, and I found them all to be friendly, amiable, and genuine. Jonboy was even kind enough to set some time aside for me to interview him for the Frankie’s blog. My initial...