“This guy has canceled at least 6 cons in less than 4 years. He has stolen table money from vendors for years. The fact that he never secured a venue for this event speaks volumes. He has given the Central NY region a black eye and has damaged it’s reputation to creators, retailers, and fans. Rick is clearly bad news for comic book related events and the sooner everyone sees through that, the better.”

Again, I canceled 2 Mighty Minicon events since spring of 2004. One was due to a heart ailment, and the other just a few weeks back in between deaths in my immediate family.

No table monies were stolen, as you stated falsely. The venue was being in the midst of being decided upon based on ongoing negotiations with two hotel chains during late June through the 4th of July holiday. We then heard from another resource. So the decision was held off until what we had been told could be confirmed and acted upon. Then my mom got ill on July 25th and subsequently, died on July 27th. As my parents live within my home with myself and my family… this was an especially difficult time. People were informed. Some a little later than others. I had nothing to do with that aspect of the informaton provided.

I was still offline dealing with family matters, when on August 8th, our 26 year old niece died suddenly. It was at that time that I contacted a national hosting company to turn the remaining prep and venue securing over to them. Unfortunately, I was unaware that a national cheerleading competition was also in town on that target weekend and my earlier venue spots were now gone and hotel rooms were more unavailable. We gave the hosting company up until a week prior before pulling the plug.

So did I lie?

I don’t think I did.

No, instead, I was checking something online and stumbled upon Heidi’s blog which sperm jumped from Johanna Draper Carlson’s blog. Both contained lies, so I set out to try and correct those lies with the truth of the matter.
Certainly, I don’t know who you are. I just know that you are impassioned, and that’s fine as long as you’re not compounding lies. I’ve tagged you a troll simply because you act and smell like one. You could be the guy next door … looking forward to the convention … only to be really upset and disappointed at its demise this year. So I tried to explain.

So now I ask you, Why did you lie?

And let’s examine reasoning: April 2004 was a series of chest pains experienced at the Pittsburgh Comicon. My family removed my option to try and hold the MMC that June while I recovered. Later part of July (27th) 2006 I lost my Mom to unexpected death, followed by the death of my 26 year old niece on August 8th. Again, I don’t have to justify anything to you or anyone.

But, in mulling this all over … more to the truth … you are a simple troll that seemingly haunts various message board forums (by your own admission) and comics related blogs looking to chew on rotting flesh and anything that fills that empty life you lead. But what the hell, every bridge needs one! And from the degree of your posts here, you may have a lil stalker in you, cupcake. Feel free to search me out at any of my future events. I’ll see that you get any answers you’re seeking in person. And, again, thank you for your previous and future support of the Mighty Minicon.

Nor do I have to justify or explain myself to you or anyone, FCWB. Simply put, go find another comic book corner to jerk off in.

Anyone smart enough to use google, ask, or any Internet search engine can get to the truth of the matter and learn that what I stated earlier is true. And if anything else is wrong in comics, you be sure put on your cape and boots and correct it. Feh.

Comic book events should never be about trying only to entertain the overzealous reader, such as yourself. And, while I know you won’t accept this as I mean it; I’m really sorry that you suffered such disappointment at the cancellation of one of my events. We’ll try to make 2007 that much more special for readers like you.

Well damn, Rick!
I guess the whole world is wrong and you are right. My mistake.
You are obviously correct sir, a series of cancellations and disruptions to possible thousands of people’s lives over the years, is small potatoes.
Not news worthy, right?

Wrong.
People have been treated poorly by you for too long.
Be it, with your:
-threats, intimidation, and menacing via the internet.
-routine destruction of events in New York state.
-theft of money and products from numerous retailers and dealers.
-numerous lies and rumors.
and not to mention,
-vile treatment of comic book writers, artists, and legendary creators.

You sir, are an opponent to the progress of this industry. Period. Call my “banter” “idiotic” all day, for all I care. It is the only bullet in your gun of bullshit and excuses. Play the lawyer card. Threaten people on a public forum. Go ahead.

Do you really think that the people on this, or any messageboard anywhere, will really fail to notice that the emperor is skipping through the streets, naked as the day he was born? Don’t insult our intelligence.

You are destructive to what is being built in the comic books community and the industry as a whole, and that is the bottom line. Your smoke and mirrors don’t change that. YOU NEVER BOOKED A VENUE! Can you really expect people to overlook that? Seriously. Can you?

One of the first messages on mightminicon.com was from you, and it said:
“We’ve booked space…” and it was a lie. You have lied to us all, and you have been caught. Now you are critical of this site, and any other site that reports on your misconduct and you dismiss it as things being “slow”. You also claim there are mistruths. Where, Rick? Name a single lie on this board. One. And then, clarify it. I challenge you to do that.

I challenge you to provide the following information as well:
-Flight info for your guests. They needed to get here, and since you worked so dilligently on the event, I assume that was taken care of. Show us where you had one hotel room or flight booked.
-Vendors. How many vendor tables were actually sold?
-Promotion. How, other than your tightly guarded messageboard, did you promote this event?

My guess for all of those things are that you did none of it. Not a sliver. You never took those creators or fans seriously enough. Did you?

To correct you again, Rick, you are not what you read. You are what you do. What you have done is lied and acted without responsibility. Don’t be shocked when you are called a liar and irresponsible.

I suggest everyone get ready for more smoke and mirrors.

To date, since my heart attack in 2004, I have had to cancel two Mighty Mini-Con’s 2004 and 2006 and a horror event originally billed as “The Spooky” (2003) and that has since been turned into an upstate horror attraction.

Since 1996, I have had 5 properious Mighty Minicon’s and a ORCon ‘96. I’ve also, with the help of members of Organized Readers of Comics Associated (ORCA) since 1993 have held local monthly meetings in a formal library setting to encourage fandom and younger reader participation backed by parental support.

This last Mighty Minicon was cancelled after we experienced two deaths in our immediate family. Nobody has been cheated in any way. And I’d advise that this sort of remark have much clearer and distinct details to keep it out of the area of culpability. That is, unless culpability and smear is what was the goal with this article. Things must be boring elsewhere on the industry front, eh? I mean, reading, “Normally we wouldn’t make such a fuss about a small-time con being cancelled after a family tragedy. It’s just that Olney has a history of being a real internet loudmouth. In fact, he recently hired Ronee Garcia Bourgeois to be a spokesman for his Tightlip Entertainment, and she moved her “What a Girl Wantsâ€? column over there.” must really motivate your bowels. Contray to your descriptive of me, I thought my days as being pegged by a select few as “a real internet loudmouth” were over. If you check any search engine, my posts have been almost non-existent elsewhere other than my own message board forums. But I leave more intelligent people to see beyond what is sadly implied here.

Heidi, you graciously came to one of my Mighty Minicon’s back in 2003. We enjoyed having you there, and yes, it was a small con. But I thought you knew that.

To Mr. Four Color Wonder Boy:
I doubt, sir, that you are worth much more than your screen name implies. But I invite you to join the MMC forums using your same screen name and allow the folks there to read and respond to your idiotic banter. Beyond that, I’ll be providing a copy of this blog to my attorney for further examination.

I guess things must really be slow for so many mistruths to be generated here. Oh well, you are what you read.

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Now, as soon as you peel yourself off of the floor because you were laughing so hard, consider the new round of guests, creators, fans, vendors, and retailers that may be taken in by this.
Not so funny, anymore.
Rick from Tightlip puts the CON in convention and the fact that he has erased all traces of his cancelled events and replaced it with a one woman PR firm so soon, speaks volumes about his intentions, and his level of integrity.
Here’s to hoping that he never screws another person out of their money, time or effort!

The Ronee Garcia Bourgeois column is right there on the front page. I’m really not sure what to make of it.

And as someone who ran a small show (and failed at it miserably), it just seems shocking to me that Rick has yet again cancelled this con. What’s more surprising, though, is that there were people who were willing to send him money upfront for tables and admission, when he had done this in the past. While my own business plan for my con was flawed, I still budgeted for actually paying for the space.

I admire him trying to do this, but I always thought that his eyes were bigger than his stomach, and that a two-day, out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere convention with hefty admission was never going to work out.