{"id":1525,"date":"2011-06-23T22:01:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T03:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2011-07-04T11:52:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:52:14","slug":"kc-fan-con-cancels-july-show-focuses-on-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"KC Fan Con cancels July show; focuses on September"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1526\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/freestate6_484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1526\" title=\"freestate6_484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/freestate6_484-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"2011 Free State Freecon\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/freestate6_484-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/freestate6_484.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 85vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2011 Free State Freecon is scheduled for September 10th in Lawrence, Kansas. Illustration by Greg Smallwood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KC Fan Con #31, originally scheduled for July 10, has been canceled. Promoter Craig Klotz said he is turning his attention to the <a title=\"Free State Comicon 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kcfancon.com\/freestate6PRE.html\" target=\"_blank\">Free State Comicon<\/a> slated for September 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a dealer shortage, and concern that the 4th of July  holiday would suck up a lot of fans&#8217; expendable [dollars],&#8221; Klotz wrote  on Facebook. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m putting all my energy this summer into  planning the Lawrence show, which I expect will be <em>huge<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Klotz promotes several one-day KC Fan Con events each year. The free  conventions are held at an Overland Park hotel banquet room and typically feature one  creator guest with a small number of dealers. In addition, he also organizes the annual Free State Comicon in Lawrence, Kansas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a much larger show with multiple guests, more dealers, and paid admission.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 Free State Comicon is scheduled for September 10th. It will be held in Building #21 of the Douglas County Fairgrounds at 2110 Harper Street in Lawrence, Kansas. According to Klotz, the initial guest list will be announced soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KC Fan Con #31, originally scheduled for July 10, has been canceled. Promoter Craig Klotz said he is turning his attention to the Free State Comicon slated for September 10. &#8220;There was a dealer shortage, and concern that the 4th of July holiday would suck up a lot of fans&#8217; expendable [dollars],&#8221; Klotz wrote on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KC Fan Con cancels July show; focuses on September&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[434,415,432],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions-and-events","tag-craig-klotz","tag-free-state-freecon","tag-kc-fan-con"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}