Comics Exhibition at STGCC Proposal

Following up on last year's Original Art Exhibition, we feel this year it is appropriate to cover other aspects of comic collecting in order to cater to different types of collectors. The industry is constantly growing, expanding into new areas of collecting comics and comics-related collectibles. We hope to generate enough interest, making comics a larger and more important part of STGCC. The idea is to get fans excited to read comics again.

Comics collectibles can be categorised as follows:

1. Singles
   
   • Slabbing / Grading
     The exhibition will primarily be focused on rare Singles, as key issues are the rarest and most valued in comics. Comic collectors and fans alike are more likely to be interested to see these on display. The list further down the page gives a rough idea what we have managed to put together so far.
2. Collected Editions
   
   • Tradepaperbacks / Hardcover
   • Omnibuses / Absolute Editions
   • Artists / Artifact Editions
     We have yet to decide if we will showcase physical copies of collected editions, as they are readily available at Kino and many local comic shops. It is likely, however, that they will get a mention in the writeup. Having said that, if there's enough space to accommodate these, we would not be against putting them up.
3. Digital
4. Original Art
   We covered this last year.

As in 2017, the aim of this exhibition is to engage the public by educating / providing information about comics and the fun art of comic book collecting. SCC members would be there to take visitors through the exhibits like we did last year for the OA exhibition. We intend to have a few writeups put up as well, these would appear on A2 standees. Depending on the length of the writeups (and budget constraints), we might put some pieces together on a single A2 board, for example, "Grails and Why They are Important" and "Slabs and Why They are Relevant in Comics Collecting" could go well together. See under Sample Writeup / Educational Material for more information.

From the preliminary list of comics available for display at the exhibition so far, it could very well make this one of the first and largest gathering of Mega Keys at a South East Asian comic convention, if not the first and the largest. Here's the tentative list of comics we hope to showcase at this year's STGCC:

The comics that would likely be on display are shown below. We are open to suggestions for titles you would like to see featured as this is just a sample of our combined collections.

Click on the tab: MegaKeys, SilverAge, BronzeAge, Modern and ComicMovies (for Comics Impact on Movies) to filter the list.