Originally published April 28, 2000, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1380
This past weekend was I-Con 19, the nineteenth science fiction convention held at the University of Stonybrook in beautiful Long Island. When I first started attending the con back in its earliest days, one small building housed the entire thing. The entirety of the dealer’s room took up exactly one medium-sized classroom. Now the dealer’s room requires the entirety of the gargantuan athletic center, and programming is spread out among three buildings. It’s easily the largest annual convention in the tri-state area, and possibly in the East Coast (although I’m not sure where the attendance figures compare to Dragon*Con.) The downside of “Schlep Con,” as I sometimes refer to it, is that because everything is so spread out it can be, well… something of a schlep.
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