Conventions

  I'm in Toronto for TCAF and I'm trapped in a hotel room with bags and bags of maple bacon potato chips. Oh, Canada! Yesterday it...

The moment I met Steve “Captain” Kirk, I knew he was a serious business man. Aside from knowing he was a former Playstation and...

The slow motion car crash that was the failed Universal Fan Con continues to fascinate, the way all disasters do. NY Magazine's Lila Shapiro...

A look back at last week's pop-up convention.

The other day The Beat was the first to report that LA's Epic Icon Comic Con had been cancelled a week out. The two sites...

We've just heard through the grapevine of another con fail: this time Epic Icon Comic Con, to be held May 4-6 at the Los...

The comminity rallied in Baltimore this weekend to create an event that is being called "Nerd Woodstock."

If you're looking for a good time at a con, this weekend' sEast Coast Comicon is just what you might need.

Headed by Mike Towry and Chairman Matt Dunford, this convention pays homage to the early days of Comic-Con. Organizers of Comic Fest pride themselves in its intimate setting. In many ways, I find it to be quite charming, lacking the Hollywood of Comic-Con and instead allowing attendees and invited guests to mingle together. A lot of love goes into this convention.

“Five years ago, Marvel was in charge, and they ruled everything I did as a retailer. It was ‘Marvel first.’ Now, they are the bastard children of the industry. I’ve lost probably 25% of my comic readership because 25% of my Marvel fans got tired of my higher cover prices, the non-sequitur storylines, the almost incomprehensible X-Men this and that… Marvel has done nothing to drive the industry towards us.”

If you spent your weekend doing fun things like seeing family or going on vacation, you may have missed perhaps the biggest imbroglio in "When A Con is Crap" history, Universal Fan Con.

Looking back, Berger could see how the idea was very much in Shelley Bond’s and Vertigo’s interests. “The thing about Grimm Fairytales, the real fairytales, are that they are frick’n scary and bloody,” she said. “There is something domesticated about them nowadays… And I think most people today have their ideas of fairytales because of Disney.”