And it's our annual review of Anime North, which you get once a year because, well, I'm there every year.
This time I ran a few new events and wanted to cover them – and I had a few interesting progeek insights to share.
Conventions
Go Farther: Cosplay Cons
Cosplay conventions. If you've ever been to one – and you're not much of cosplayer – it's a surreal, wonderful world. There's amazing craftsmanships, characters brought to life, characters remade in new genders and genres. You're not only through the looking glass, but everyone in Wonderland looks fabulous.
Cosplay cons, with their specific focus, may not seem ideal for career events. I, of course, beg to disagree, since I think any convention is good for a career event. Obviously I have some suggestions for how you can add career events to Cosplay Cons or this would be pretty short . . .
Go Farther: Media Cons
I hear the term "Media Con" be used more and more lately to refer to those cons that are just, well . . . everything. You know a con may have started as SF, or fantasy, or anime but after awhile it's about many media in all but name. Comic cons are certainly evolving into "geek media", and there's cons dedicated to broad media interests, or broad but specific slices (such as pulp fiction, etc.).
So in my roundup of the way cons can go farther, of course I had to speculate on what the more general/media conventions can do for career events. This includes those cons that were always general media or evolving that way.