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Charles Fischer, Graham Crackers Comics owner, looks for comic for a customer April 21 at Graham Crackers Comics, 901 Lucinda Ave.

DeKalb comic book store attending C2E2

By Pat Quinn | April 21, 2014

DeKalb | Graham Crackers Comics is preparing for its Friday trip to the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, or C2E2.McCormick Place hosts the annual convention, housing comic vendors, authors, illustrators and celebrities of the comic book world.Even...

Tips to surviving your first convention

By Jen Weddle | April 28, 2013

This weekend I came to the horrifying realization that I was going to be considered a noob for the first time in a long time. A noob is a person who is new to something like an online game or, as in my case, going to a comic book convention. I wasn’t...

Comic conventions have fun for all kinds of fans

By Tony Martin | March 9, 2011

I love comic books. The Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo is coming to Chicago from March 18-20, and I wish I could go. I almost want to quit my band so I don't have to be on tour the weekend of C2E2. Having been to a couple of comic conventions in...