I was sitting in the front row of the ofmd panel at mcm london and I managed to get this amazing picture of samson showing the audience a picture of baby drag king vico djdjd
Does anyone going to MCM in London for the OFMD panel know whether the panel room being full is likely to be an issue? I have bought a standard ticket for the day and plan to get there as soon as it opens (or earlier and wait). I don't mind not getting a good seat but i'm stressing about too many people being there for me to get any seat. Plus, i'm not very familiar with cons and haven't been to a panel at one before. Does MCM selling only limited tickets make this not an issue? I've tried asking this on Twitter and asking MCM but got zero (0) notice. Would greatly appreciate inisght from people who've been to con panels before pleaseee
I'll have to go back and check the VOD to see if it can be heard but I swear I didn't mean for my voice to carry when I said "Street Fighter" during the video game question 😬😂
Got a photo-op with Sam today and it was so surreal and wonderful and OMG the less than ten seconds I spent standing next to him to get a photo taken were incredible
I will remember this trip forever, I think. Best time of my fucking life.
Con O’Neill, MCM Comic Con panel with Nathan Foad and Kristian Nairn, London May 27, 2023
Q: As someone who was a teenager for Section 28 Part 1, I just want to [...] say a massive thank you for speaking up about Section 28 Part 2. What's it been like at the moment, working on a show that has got such cool and interesting things to say about gender broadly and masculinity more specifically?
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New York Comic Con - October 14 2023 - Rhys Darby, Nathan Foad, Matthew Maher, Kristian Nairn, Con O'Neill, & Vico Ortiz
MCM London - May 2023 - Nathan Foad, Kristian Nairn, & Con O'Neill
Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo - April 1 2023 - Kristian Nairn, Vico Ortiz, & Samba Schutte
Emerald City Comic Con - August 20 2022 - Nathan Foad, Kristian Nairn, & Con O'Neill
Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo / C2E2 - August 7 2022 - Nathan Foad & Con O'Neill
JK Rowling is a rich woman – but if she had a penny for every cancellation attempt levelled at her, she’d be an even richer one. A Comic Con in Newham had planned to host a panel from the West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, but cancelled the event after complaints from LGBT+ organisation Switchboard.
For some trans activists, Rowling doesn’t even have to be in the vicinity to cause emotional distress. In fact, it seems the very presence of she-who-must-not-be-named’s “intellectual property” was enough to make Switchboard concerned about “the potential impact on our community, particularly trans individuals”. MCM Comic Con announced that it had cancelled the panel, despite describing the event as an opportunity “to hear from the production team working behind the scenes”. So potent is Rowling’s power to offend, that even stage managers working on adaptations of her work are too tainted for trans activists.
But what MCM Comic Con and other similarly spineless organisations fail to recognise, is that public support is firmly behind the Potter creator. A recent poll of readers conducted by Amazon found that Rowling’s first novel – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – had one of the top five greatest opening lines of all time. It’s no secret that the Potter books are the best-selling fantasy series, having sold over 500 million worldwide and published in over 85 languages. Harry Potter is the The Little Prince of my generation – Rowling’s imagination continues to be an entry point for many young book lovers.
In fact, it’s worth asking whether Switchboard and others are genuine when they claim that simply being near anything related to Rowling might be harmful to their “community”. What happens when a co-worker turns up with a Hogwarts mug? Should copies of The Goblet of Fire be banned from the tube, lest “trans individuals” feel unsafe? Halloween is round the corner – how will these individuals fare on streets filled with wands, wizard hats and toddlers with fake scars on their foreheads?
Most of us know the truth – that there are very few trans individuals who feel threatened by Rowling or her work, or indeed agree with the characterisation of Rowling as a transphobic bigot. The author has responded to this emotive, heated debate with respect and calmness. It is wholly unfair for Potter brats like Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, or organisations like Switchboard, to seek to condemn Rowling in the name of the trans community.