Rose City Comic Con
Status	Active
Genre	Comic book convention
Venue	Lloyd CenterDoubletree Hotel (2012) Oregon Convention Center (2013–present)
Location	Portland, Oregon
Country	United States
Inaugurated	2012
Founders	Ron Brister, Paula Brister
Attendance	70,000 (2019)
Budget	$20,000 in Year 1.
Organized by	(2011–2017) Flashpoint Media, LLC (2017-current) LeftField Media
Website	www.rosecitycomiccon.com

Rose City Comic Con (RCCC) is an annualcomic book andpop culture convention that takes place inPortland, Oregon, each September.

RCCC was founded by Ron Brister and his partner Paula Brister while on a road trip toSan Diego Comic-Con in July 2011. The founders decided thatPortland, Oregon, was missing an event that would captivate Portlanders with the same charm as San Diego and the northwest's favorite event,Emerald City Comic Con.^{[citation needed]}

From that road trip, after much discussion, and with a budget of less than $20,000, Ron and Paula Brister officially launched Rose City Comic Con in late summer of 2011 with the first event scheduled to run the following year in October 2012. After further research, however, the event was rescheduled to September in order to not be in between theBaltimore Comic-Con and theNew York Comic Con (NYCC) that first year. The first official announcement of Rose City Comic Con took place at theJet City Comics show.^{[citation needed]}

The first convention in 2012 was held at theDoubleTree hotel near theLloyd Center. The organizers knew that the show just needed to break even in order for it to be a success.^{[citation needed]} They hoped for 750 attendees but realized the day before the first show that they would exceed that number.^{[citation needed]} The bigger problem was where to hold it the second year.^{[citation needed]}

The second annual event, held in 2013, was co-produced, co-funded, and co-organized byEmerald City Comic-Con,^[1] the largest comic book convention in the Pacific Northwest (which had seen significant expansion in the years prior). This transition moved RCCC to theOregon Convention Center and took up halls A1, B, and C, totaling more than 120,000 square feet, and saw a 405% increase in attendance.^{[citation needed]} Since 2013, Emerald City Comic-Con and Rose City Comic-Con have been a Pacific Northwest partnership stationed in its two biggest cities: Seattle and Portland.

In late 2013, the Portland-basedStumptown Comics Fest, which focused on small-press comics, went "on hiatus" and entered an into an operating agreement with Rose City Comic Con.^[2]

In February 2017, the founders and partners agreed to sell a majority stake ownership to LeftField Media which had been founded by the former executives withinReedPop. The two founders stayed on with the business while the partners fromEmerald City Comic Con separated.

Both Ron and Paula Brister stayed with the company until Paula departed just before theCOVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Ron stayed on in a consulting role only until early 2021.

The 2020 edition of the convention was canceled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.^[3]

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