MEGACON™, SOUTHEAST’S LARGEST FAN CONVENTION, WRAPS ANOTHER YEAR OF FUN AND FANDOM AT THE ORANGE COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER

Orlando, FL – June 4, 2018 – MEGACON™, the Southeast’s largest comics, sci-fi, horror, anime and gaming event, wrapped up the Orlando convention throughout Memorial Day Weekend at the Orange County Convention Center. The four-day multi-genre convention welcomed more than 100,000 fans and included programming for all ages, a star-studded celebrity lineup and more.

Among other guests that brought crowds the most immersive pop culture entertainment experience were the cosplay superstars of the Florida Con Artists, led by Charles Watson and Teea Reich, with Dennis Cutter, as well as internet talk show phenoms from the Hangin With Web Show, Bri Bri Cosplay and the Florida based Bombshells Cosplayers, HarledinArts Cosplay and Crafts Amelia Poole, and social media musical duo Billy Floyd and Jay Stephens' The Kitchen Killaz.

This year’s featured celebrity guests included Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings); Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park); Jason Momoa (DC Justice League); John Cena, Alexa Bliss, Braun Strowman (WWE Superstars); Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman); Billy Dee Williams and Joonas Suotamo (Star Wars); Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor (Xena: Warrior Princess); Jodi Benson and Christopher Daniel Barnes (The Little Mermaid); Rob Liefeld (Deadpool and X-Force) among others. 

The event was a huge success for artists, authors, comic creators, pop culture stars and fans alike, as well as a terrific and impactful addition to the local Orlando economy!  

Interviews with artistic creators From 2018 and other MegaCon Shows on the Hangin With Web Show can be seen below:  

Melbourne Author’s new Web-Series is Set to Interview Celebs at Comic Con 2016

Melbourne, FL — From January 15 until January 17, 2016, the new hit web talk series, "Hangin' With ...", featuring show host, journalist and author G.W. Pomichter is slated to be interviewing artists, authors, comic producers, celebrities, filmmakers and creators of all kinds at one of the regional South East’s largest and most prestigious convention events: Magic City Comic Con in Miami.

“Hangin’ With …” is a YouTube based interview show, that was started in Melbourne, Florida by local author and former journalist Garrett (G.W.) Pomichter. The show features professional coverage of artists from throughout the creative community to discuss new books, films, comics, and visual arts. The show focuses heavily on the personal journeys of artists in attaining their goals, the things that motivate them to create, and the pitfalls they face in an evolving market place.

“We started this show as a way to promote independent and other artists who are often lost in a morass of popular culture,” said show founder and host Garrett Pomichter. “We wanted to show a side of those vital creators that it is often difficult to see. We wanted to show the side that succeeds: the personal side of providing the pillars of pop-culture.”

Since it’s creation, “Hangin With …” has interviewed and featured more than 30 local authors as well as creators from around the state and even the nation in more than 45 webisodes, now available on YouTube, including a 30 minute special interview of renowned science fiction author, Alan Dean Foster, who most recently penned the highly anticipated novelization of the record breaking blockbuster hit film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Magic City Comic Con will take place January 15-17, 2016 in Miami, FL at the Miami Airport Convention Center. Join us for 3 days of fun featuring celebrity guests, comic book creators, voice actors, industry guests, cos-players, artists, writers, panels, Q&A’s, films & shorts, costume & cosplay contests, vendors, parties, anime, workshops and video gaming. Pomichter and his crew from “Hangin’ With …” have been invited and accepted to cover the con by publisher Wordfire Press, who represent some of the sci-fi genre’s biggest authors and creators, including Kevin J. Anderson, Peter J. Wacks, Frank Herbert (and Brian Herbert).

“Being accepted at Magic City (Comic Con) is a real treat and a milestone for the show,” Pomichter said. “It means that our message and our guests are resonating throughout popular culture. That is exactly what we have striven to achieve, and we will work to earn such acknowledgements.”

For information, contact G.W. Pomichter and Hangin’ With, at gwpomichter@gmail.com OR by phone (321) 622-4945, (On YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/GarrettPomichter and on the web at: http://hanginwithshow.wix.com/hanginwith