ARE YOU DOING ANYTHING NEW OR DIFFERENT THIS YEAR? Bret: We have some new sponsors and exclusives this year. Horrifying Hot Sauce created our own hot sauce, “Game Over,” and Littleton Meats is offering an exclusive mail-order “Slaughterbox” to attendees. Our workshop programming was so successful last year, standing room only, that we have moved it to a larger room, and overall we’re extending programming to begin earlier and end later, like 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. We’ve added an official “Let Me Be Short” competitive film festival with submissions via FilmFreeway, and a new unusual activity for fans: axe throwing! Smurf: We’ve made a few adjustments from last year, added more horror focused vendors half of which have never been here. Our panels have some returning presenters but with new topics while some are expanding on what they did last year. We work diligently every year to bring in something different to mix it up for our guests, we will even have a horror-themed axe throwing station outside. WE’VE BEEN BIGTIME FANS OF COFOH-BASED COSPLAY SLASHER COMIC SERIES TRUE BELIEVERS BY HEX PUBLISHERS / METAL X ENTERTAINMENT / BIT BOT MEDIA FOUNDER JOSHUA VIOLA, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES AND ARTIST BEN MATSUYA THAT WAS BORN OUT OF A CONVERSATION WITH YOU BOTH AND JEANNI. CAN YOU GIVE US A TEASER OF WHAT FANS CAN EXPECT WITH TRUE BELIEVERS’ INVOLVEMENT AT THE FEST THIS YEAR? Bret: Joshua Viola added Canadian illustrator Matthew Therrien to No. 129 his cover art team and we’re bringing him to the show as he painted stunning covers of actors who appear as COFOH guests in the storyline: Jamie Lee Curtis, R.L. Stine, Devon Sawa, and others for upcoming issues. Issue #1 has only been available to Kickstarter supporters so we’re excited to offer fans the entire 26-page Issue #1 at the Metal X Entertainment / Hex Publishers booth in our Death Dealers Room. Plus, Issue #2 will premiere at this year’s show! It is such a thrill to have Stephen, Josh and Matthew attend and participate on a True Believers Issue #1-2 Release Party panel. It is surreal to have such a creative and horrifying slasher story where COFOH is the epicenter of the chaos. Be sure to look for other cameos besides the celebs, and don’t be surprised if life imitates art in future years with these celebs coming to COFOH. And the bloody icing on the cake — Matthew drew this year’s COFOH exclusive beer art, brewed by our sponsor Outworld Brewing, which we call Killr™ Brew, named after the cosplay killer in the comics! WHAT SETS COFOH APART FROM OTHER HORROR FESTIVALS THAT ARE STARTING TO POP UP IN COLORADO. Bret: COFOH is a one-of-a-kind, locally-owned, homegrown, homeoperated convention, run by local horror fans who have many connections with our local creative community. We pride ourselves in engaging local talent and businesses to participate and create for our show. Just look at Terror In the Corn’s haunt actors at the show, Outworld Brewing making us a beer, Dragon Meadery bottling a cabernet sauvignon, L.S. Strange providing attendees with bags, Metal X Entertainment’s TRUE BELIEVERS comics, Distortions Unlimited’s loan of monster props to decorate the venue, Mutiny Information Cafe / Phantom 8’s running of ART BY LEIGHTON BUXMAN ART THE CLOWN W/ A WEREWOLF AT COFOH '23 ART BY JOE BABLAZO DANIEL CROSIER, BRET & JEANNI SMITH W/ ELISA SARGENT AT BROADWAY HALLOWEEN PARADE '23
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