{"id":1662,"date":"2011-09-14T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2011-09-14T20:00:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T01:00:54","slug":"kc-fan-con-2011-set-new-attendance-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"KC Fan Con 2011 set new attendance record"},"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 Comicon\" 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 set a new attendance record for the promoter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to show promoter Craig Klotz, the latest <a title=\"Free State Comicon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kcfancon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Free State Comicon<\/a> had a higher total attendance of any his previous events. Around 800 fans, workers, dealers, and comics creators were at the show. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We blew the doors off of our old attendance record!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Klotz said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our best show before this was the 2009 Free State show, which had around 550 people. We are very pleased with the turnout!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Klotz attributes several factors with increasing attendance at the event, including media coverage and returning the show to September date instead of May. He also cited, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Things like the re-branding of the show and re-vamp of the kcfancon.com website, and a larger social media presence. And of course the support of the Kansas and Missouri comic creator community was huge! I think we got the right mix of guests, too.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Klotz was happy to avoid major problems during the show. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Things ran very smoothly, which was unexpected,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I always expect kinks or mini-crises, but everything fell into place both behind the scenes and during the show.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Klotz plans to announce the details for his next event in a few weeks. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can say that the next show will be one of our free KC Fan Con shows, and that it will be our \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfall-back\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 show on Sunday, November 6th,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As to location and special guest, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to wait for the announcement.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Based on the turn out, the addition of a $3.00 admission fee appears to have had no negative affect on turnout. Previous Free State conventions had free admission.<\/p>\n<p>More information about events from Klotz&#8217; Kansas City Fan Conventions organization is available at <a title=\"KC Fan Con\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kcfancon.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.kcfancon.com<\/a>. Klotz also posts updates on events on <a title=\"KC Fan Con on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/kcfancon\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a title=\"KC Fan Con on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kcfancon\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to show promoter Craig Klotz, the latest Free State Comicon had a higher total attendance of any his previous events. Around 800 fans, workers, dealers, and comics creators were at the show. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We blew the doors off of our old attendance record!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Klotz said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our best show before this was the 2009 Free State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1662\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KC Fan Con 2011 set new attendance record&#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":[17,486],"tags":[434,529],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions-and-events","category-kansas-city-comics-events","tag-craig-klotz","tag-free-state-comicon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","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=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}