Entertainment Magazine: Staff: Barnetts
Carolyn & James Barnett visit 2023 Tucson Comic Con
Carolyn and James Barnett attended the 2023 Tucson
Comic Con. The event, held on September 1-3, 2023 at the Tucson
Convention Center (TCC), was packed this year, according to James.
Carolyn and James at the Action Comics display.
Wow, what a fun convention! Friday
we arrived about 2:00pm for our media passes. Although is seemed quiet
there was an excellent positive energy in the air.
Dealers were doing the last touch-up of their tables.
Hundreds of people doing exactly what they love and thousands of others
happy to pay them for it!
Up on the main floor the cosplayers were checking their
costumes and equipment. Then it was 3:00pm and everything opened up. The
line went out the door!
The crowd seemed anxious and happy, hoping for a fun
time. They definitely had it! Everyone was with thousands of their new
best friends. Everyone was welcome. The inclusiveness was wonderful.
Whoever you are, whatever you do outside of the Con didn't matter.
It's a fantastic feeling experiencing this combined
acceptance in a time of peril for everyone considered 'different'. We're
all different here and it works!
Many Thanks to Carrie for having us and the excellent staff quietly working in the background.
You can tell an event is running smoothly when nobody notices the huge team effort it takes to keep it running!
Carolyn and James meeting up with a pirate.
Super Heroes.
(Above) TCC 2017: The last minutes of the last day of the Tucson Comic Con. Everyone else has gone home. Except us!
Carolyn Barnett with Teresita and Mike Olivares, founders of the Tucson Comic-Con during the 2017 Tucson Comic-Con.
Carolyn Barnett at the 2017 Tucson Comic-Con.
2017 Tucson Comic-Con.
Carolyn Barnett and new friend.