Most of you American people know what is this Convention/expo business is, you got excellent examples all over the country where you can see real media action, game companies show the real stuff and you can actually talk to some of the creators, i mean, could be a ComiCon or a GameCon but having this kind of approach to the source is really great.
Just recently the PAX 08 ended with a lot of warm feelings forthe attendants and that's what we all need and i refer to the people in this my 3rd world country.
Given the fact that we have no game culture of our own and our comic resumes to reprints of outdated publication and softcore/hardcore hollow comics, we can't possibly talk about an event such as the SDCC or the GenCon, instead we got overprized flea markets with nothing to do with the development of the product, to make things sadder we get our share of "celebrities" hosting dubbing actors... yeah.
but still, we got something a bit closer in may the event was the ConComics, and though i must say it has nothing to do with any of the american counterparts, it really surprised the attendants by having some actual comic artists and illustrators as well as a bunch of brand new institutes that are trying to make a breaktrough in animation and gaming.
We're still miles away from having a world class event here but things are going the right path if the people behind the event decides to go this direction