Star Wars Ruined Comic-Con!
Studio Coffee Run SDCC Thursday: Game of Thrones Panel Highlights
SDCC11: Live blogging the New 52 panel — UPDATED
Twitter: Two survival keys for #sdcc: 1) dl official Con app for a schedule and maps. 2) bring a poster tube! http://lockerz.com/s/122335498
SDCC11: ICv2 conference hightlights: digital comics sales doubled in 2010
Yesterday’s ICv2 Conference on Comics, Media, and Digital kicked off Comic-Con with a look at the business side of things. Over at Publishers Weekly, Calvin Reid and I have a brief recap of some of the stats that Milton Griepp presented at his annual White Paper.
Some quick hits:
GN sales were up 3% so far in 2011 — up more in bookstores, despite the Borders disaster, than in comics shops — while periodical sales were down 8%. The peak of sales for comics and GNs was 2006-2007. Coincidentally that was also a peak year for manga sales, which has declined significantly yet again. But the rate of decline has stabilized.
Time Machine: San Diego Comic Con 1988
This year’s show with its lines, security, street teams and skywriting to much for you? Return to the simpler days of San Diego Comic Con 1988 via Ironic Sans and their scans of the program book:
The Comic-Con Virgin Diaries: Nate C. day 3
I announced a new book yesterday! COW BOY, being published by good ol’ Archaia Entertainment. I’m writing, Chris Eliopoulos is drawing! Super-exciting, we’ve been working on it for a wnile. Me an’ Chris aren’t super-duper-megastars, so we figured doing an online announcement before the con started would be better than the weekend, when we could get drowned out by the massive announcements. So…yeah! Cool. In other news…
SDCC11: Spectacular images of Comic-con line
Folks have been lined up for a while to get into Comic-Con — camp Twilight must be packing up about now, hopes and wishes high. Meanwhile, the regular line is about to start entering the hall. Earlier this morning, this is how the line looked — we can’t copy but click for the largest version which shows people lined up all the way around the marina.
