NYCC

Midtown Comics Booth Signings: FRIDAY 2:00-4:00 Brian K Vaughan (Saga, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways) and Fiona Staples (Saga, Mystery Society, Northlanders, Jonah Hex) SATURDAY 12:30-1:30 Matt...

Have you ever wish you could be stylish AND help save the world all at the same time? If only such a thing was...

If you haven't seen the new color, hardcover versions of SCOTT PILGRIM, we'll let you in on the secret: They're GAWJUS. Volume 2, Lucas...

The seconds are ticking away, and with it, everyone's will to live. New York Comic Con is thundering at us, like a herd of...

It's almost a week before New York Comic Con commences, and we here at Beat Central are beginning to panic as we contemplate the...

Disclaimer; we're a sponsor of this year's ICv2 Conference on Digital and Comics, which will be held Wednesday, October 10th, the day before New...

By Steve Morris Launching at NYCC but also available now as a free digital comic, DC's newest member of the Justice League is perhaps the...

How exited is the audience for this year's New York Comic Con? Very excited. Ticket sales are already way ahead of last year’s pace, says show...

The programming schedule for this year's New York Comic Con has just been released...but in a hard to read format. As we have in past years, organizers have supplied a complete text document of all the programming. You'll note that there is a ton of great programming, but some of it is late at night -- 9 pm Friday for "The Truth about the Hobbit"? Some of us like our nerd stuff AND have a social life! Enjoy:

Pop culture business news site ICv2 has announced the ICv2 Conference on Comics and Digital II to be held in conjunction with this year's New York Comic-Con. It will be held on WEDNESDAY, October 10th,1:00 to 5:00 p.m. -- in previous years it was held on the Thursday prior to the Con but NYCC is essentially a 4 day show now. As in previous years, The Beat is a sponsor of this event. Here's the line-up of panels, with speakers to be announce. All of them sound extremely interesting.

by Merideth Jenson-Benjamin

In what has become an annual pilgrimage for the Benjamin family, last week we packed our Febreeze and granola bars, and headed out to San Diego Comic-Con. Once we got home, I had a post-mortem with my ten year old daughter about the experience. Our conversation follows:

The Comic Con International: San Diego holds a Talkback Panel every year to try and figure out what went right and what went wrong. The format of the Talkback Panel does not lend itself to formation of easy narrative. One representative from CCI sits behind a desk and answers questions from the line of convention attendees, taking down notes and suggestions, and responding when necessary. This year, the task fell to John Rogers, President of Comic Con International’s Board of Directors, to moderate the panel.