
The last few ComicsPRO Annual Meetings have been in Atlanta (see "ComicsPRO Meeting Set"), and this will be a first meeting for the West Coast. Portland seems like an odd choice (#22 market in the U.S., not a major air hub), until you consider its importance to the comics business (Dark Horse Comics, a top five publisher, and Oni Press, publisher of the hit Scott Pilgrim series and others, are headquartered there), and that it’s sort of centrally located on the north-south West Coast axis, giving a nod to the growing comic scene in the Pacific Northwest.