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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Atlanta comic, gaming convention bringing in 10,000 ‘Mo' attendees than 2024
Atlanta comic and gaming convention MomoCon is continuing its growth trend with more than 10,000 extra attendees expected to hit the Downtown for Memorial Day Weekend. In 2024, MomoCon had about 50,000 people come through the city for costume contests, gaming tournaments, artist alleys and a variety of different celebrity guests. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] This year, MomoCon said it expects even more people, with an estimated 60,000 attendees coming to Atlanta. On top of the big turnout, MomoCon said it expects the event to have a $42.2 million impact on the metro Atlanta area over the weekend, or at least the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau does. TRENDING STORIES: DeKalb County Schools internet offline for 2nd day in a row Driver pleads guilty to hitting, killing 8-year-old at school bus stop Gwinnett Co. elementary school bus comes across ICE enforcement operation at mobile home park Officially, the multi-genre convention will ring in its 20th year starting Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Georgia World Congress Center, the Omni Hotel and the Hotel Signia Downtown. Two decades ago, MomoCon started as a 700-person event on Georgia Tech's campus. This year, some of the guests are metro Atlanta natives, including: Shadia Amin - A Colombian cartoonist from Atlanta (SCAD grad) currently working on graphic novels. Greg Burnham (Norcross) is a comic book writer who's created indie comic hits Tuskegee Heirs,The Search For Sadiqah, Little Rock Files and The Story of Solace. His most recent is called 'Bridges,' where four super-powered girls band together to save Oakland from a group of evil bio-terrorists. Brian Stelfreeze - Comic book artist and an original member of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios. Stelfreeze has worked with Marvel, DC and 12 Gauge comics on characters including Batman, The Black Panther, and Catwoman. For a full list of who and what will be at MomoCon this weekend, as well as an event schedule, head online here. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘You haven't been here:' City officials looking to attract new conventions to Atlanta
The Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau says economic uncertainty is starting to affect the convention business, but they have a plan. CEO William Pate said at the bureau's 112th annual meeting that while some attendance numbers at conferences are down, they're looking to attract new crowds. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Pate says they plan to recruit large conventions that have never been to Atlanta and more than two dozen that haven't been here in the past decade. 'We rebuild the city every five years,' Pate said. 'So if you haven't been here in the last seven years, you haven't been here, right? So there's a lot of opportunity to reintroduce the city to a lot of those conventions, get those travelers back here.' Last year, Pate said the metro Atlanta area had 51,000,000 visitors and spent a record $20 billion. TRENDING STORIES: Paramedic accused of assaulting patient in ambulance in Cobb County GA couple sentenced for padlocking fridge, allowing son to molest half-sister in exchange for food Convicted killer mistakenly released in Clayton County coming back to GA after his recapture [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
