[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 the Baltimore Comic-Con and the New York Comic Con (NYCC) that first year.

[citation needed] The second annual event, held in 2013, was co-produced, co-funded, and co-organized by Emerald 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 the Oregon Convention Center and took up halls A1, B, and C, totaling more than 120,000 square feet, and saw a 405% increase in attendance.

[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 within ReedPop.