Grit City Comic Show is an affordable comic con for the entire family with old-school comic book convention sensibilities. Grit City Comic Show takes place in Tacoma, WA at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center annually in the Fall. We focus on comic book creators (artists and writers of all types) and the comic books they create. But we are not limited to only comic books as we include creativity in related genres such as novelists, crafters, gaming, and our annual cosplay contest. Of course, as a comic book convention, we feature some of the largest comic book dealers and toy dealers in the Pacific Northwest.
Grit City Comic Show was born in 2021 out of Jet City Comic Show, a comic book convention that ran from 2009 through 2019 in both Seattle and later Tacoma, WA. We have since decided to run multiple comic book shows throughout the PNW, under our Jet City Shows Brand.
Meet The Team
James Taylor – Co-Promoter
james@jetcitycomicshow.com
James Taylor has been working as an artist in the comic book industry since 1997, working on well over 100 comic books over the years. Most recently co-creating and published the anti-bullying book The Bully’s Bully. James is the owner of the Seattle area indie comic book publisher Rorschach Entertainment which began publishing in 2003. In addition, he contributed much of the advertising and print design for Emerald City Comicon until 2009.
With those years of experience in the comic book industry, James has also worked as a designer in the tech and publishing industries and his current day job is as Marketing Manager for one of the largest fishing gear suppliers in the world.
www.jtinks.com
www.rorschachentertainment.com
Brian Meredith – Co-Promoter
brian@jetcitycomicshow.com
Brian is one of the original founders of the Emerald City Comicon, as well as one of the founders of the Comic Stop chain of stores (Lynnwood, Everett, Redmond, and the U District) in Washington. With the dissolution of the chain, Brian re-branded the Lynnwood location as Subspace Comics and runs it with his wife, Amy Meredith.
Brian has also been self-publishing comics off and on for many years, having created a few comics such as Sprecken, Lucifer Fawkes, Steve Lawlis, Mash Tun, and with his daughter, Doctor Zombie.
www.subspacecomics.com
www.modernpulp.com
www.microbrewcomics.com