‘Further updates may come,’ but for now, Lexington comic con is postponed to May
The Lexington Comic and Toy Convention has been postponed to May, event organizers announced Thursday afternoon.
Jarrod Greer, the creator and promoter of LCTC, shared the news on Facebook soon after Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton held a news conference in which she encouraged the postponement or cancellation of all public events in the city in order to stop the spread of COVID-19, or the coronavirus.
The convention, originally scheduled for March 26-29, has been postponed to May 14-17 and will remain in place at the Central Bank Center and Rupp Arena.
Lexington’s recommendation to ban large public gatherings is in effect indefinitely, according to Fayette County Health Commissioner Kraig Humbaugh.
“We are aware that none of us knows the state of the world in May but we hold out hope that by then, this crisis will have resolved itself,” Greer wrote. “Further updates may come but this is the plan going forward for #LCTC2020.”
LCTC began in 2012 and drew upwards of 33,000 people before updates to the downtown arena’s exhibition space began last year. Those renovations will ultimately cost about $275 million and aren’t expected to be completed until 2022.
Ticket-holders who can’t attend May 14-17 will have their existing tickets honored for the 2021 event as long as they don’t check in during any of the convention’s rescheduled dates.
Ticket-holders who attend this year’s delayed event will receive free admission to the Huntington Comic & Toy Convention, another show operated by Greer that’s scheduled June 6-7 at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Huntington, W.Va.
Other information related to convention’s original dates that would be of interest to would-be attendees (hotels, photo-op packages, etc.) is available in LCTC’s Facebook post.
“I am sorry if I have fallen short of your expectations of us,” Greer wrote. “I have tried everything in my power to prevent this.”
