SMALLVILLE, Kan.(Hutchinson) – Comiccon weekend is underway here in Hutchinson aka Smallville, with a great crowd, many dressed as their favorite characters. The event is at the Kansas State Fairgrounds despite the heat.
This year activities and booths are spread throughout two separate buildings with one other outside, that being an interesting painter who use spray cans to make pictures. He does the whole thing to music.
There are stars there as well including Lee Meriwether, from the Munsters, Barnaby Jones and a Batman movie. Also appearing is Kathy Garver (sissy on the old “Family Affair” series from the 1960’s. She’s also done a number of voice overs for various animation productions, plus has a Family Affair cookbook you can buy at the event this weekend.
Others include Manu Intiraymi who you may remember from some of the Star Trek series, “Voyager.” He told us of a project he’s working on about events like Comiccon and some of the behinds scenes things that have happened at those events.
Then there is Vernon Wells from the Mad Max movies and Billy Dee Williams from Star Wars and many other films and television appearances also appeared at the event.
But the biggest star of them all? R2 – D2, “Artoo-Deetoo” or “Artoo-Dietoo”) a fictional character in the Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. He is actually able to move and make sounds just like the movie.
Also at the event is the Smallville Post Office.
The Smallville Comicon event runs through Sunday.
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