C2E2: BOOM! Studios
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBOOM! Studios will have their own perfumes, signings and variants: SCHEDULED SIGNINGS & PANELS Friday, April 16, 2010 – Booth #359 All Day – Signing with Keith R.A. DeCandido, David Alan Mack, Amy Mebberson(signing & sketching), Michael Alan Nelson, Declan Shalvey, Will Sliney, Jesse Blaze Snider, Johanna Stokes at BOOM! Booth. 12:00 – 1:00pm – [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2: Marvel booth signings, games and activities
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This week, Marvel arrives at the first ever Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo to catapult the newest entertainment event to the ultimate level! Marvel (Booth #758), along with the hottest creators in the industry, bring fans all that they’ve been craving and more! Over the course of the three day mega-event, [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2: Image Comics gets Windy
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s hot in the Windy City of Chicago as Image Comics gets ready for the inaugural edition of C2E2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo). It’ll only get hotter at the Image Comics booth, #651, when the show gets started Friday, April 16th! Don’t miss RYAN OTTLEY (INVINCIBLE) and JASON HOWARD (THE ASTOUNDING [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2: Top Shelf continues Swedish Invasion
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via: Hey Chi-town friends, the Top Shelf Swedish Invasion is coming to you! Starting Friday and all weekend long, the new Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) takes over the lakeside McCormick Center in downtown Chicago, and we’ll be there in full force! Come out and meet: Indie comics superstar Jeffrey Brown, signing his [...]
Continue ReadingCBLDF at C2E2: Gaiman, Moore, fragrances
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This weekend the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund lands in the windy city with an incredible array of events and exclusives for our supporters at the inaugural edition of C2E2! Join us for An Evening with Neil Gaiman, Signings with Tony Harris, exclusive new prints by Gaiman and Harris, and the [...]
Continue ReadingHooray! More Cul de Sac cartoons
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFresh from Richard Thompson’s blog, news that there are four more animated shorts based on the amazingly-super comic strip Cul de Sac.
Continue ReadingHeavy hitters of blogging join The Beat at C2E2
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHey kids: If you’re going to be at C2E2 tomorrow night, make sure you come to the obligatory comics blogging panel: Comics Media As the internet, mobile devices, and social networking continue to change how we gather information and get entertained, online comics media outlets are quickly evolving to keep pace. Join [...]
Continue ReadingPat Lee is back at Dynamite
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Pat Lee, a popular artist best known for his stint on the Transformers (and unfortunately for the failure of his publishing company Dreamwave) has returned to comics with a series for Dynamite, WIDOW WARRIORS, it was announced at today’s Diamond Retailer Summit in Chicago. PR below: Pat Lee, the creator who revitalized [...]
Continue ReadingThe week in conventions
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In our debilitated state we can only link to Rich Johnston’s comprehensive write-up: of the local Chicago press take on C2E2 and the it’s Rosemont rival, Wizard World Chicago. The Chicago Reader quotes Wizard’s Gareb Shamus: “They’re a local comic-book show,” he says. “We’re a North American tour for pop culture. It [...]
Continue ReadingChicago dreamin’
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Despite being sick as a dog, The Beat and crew have made it to Chicago! If the flu didn’t kill us, the red hot at Johnnie’s Beef would have, but we’re sort of back in the saddle. At the moment, we’re off to the Diamond Retailer Summit, where people will probably [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2 PR: Avatar invites retailers to Brooks/Martin event
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVia PR: Attendees to the Diamond 2010 Retailer Summit are invited to visit Avatar Press’ booth on Friday, April 16, to acquire a free ticket to the “Avatar Friday Night” event hosted by legendary fantasy writer George R.R. Martin and zombie survivalist Max Brooks. The Avatar Friday Night event, held in Lakeside Center’s [...]
Continue ReadingLost: Boom goes the dynamite
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDiscuss last night’s Lost episode, “Everybody Loves Hugo”, here. More analysis Thursday.
Continue ReadingFast MoCCA thoughts
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet My MoCCA report for PW is here, but I’m sure I had a lot of other things to say about it before I got sick. It was, as always, a week crammed with socializing and events — jeebus, how many fantastic cartoonists can there be in one city, anyway? Thursday night [...]
Continue ReadingAlmost made it
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet After a couple of months of non-stop travel and activity, The Beat finally got sick; not so sick that we can’t go to C2E2, but sick enough that The Beatis seriously dragging and a lot of stuff we had planned isn’t going to happen, or won’t happen when we promised it [...]
Continue ReadingContest: Write your own Jack Kirby pitch
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDave Itzkoff at the NY Times uncovers the story of a vault of 600 pages of unpublished Jack Kirby concept art. After leaving DC in the ’70s, the King went on to work in animation for Ruby-Spears through the ’80s, designing such things as Thundarr the Barbabian, among others. But so [...]
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