MCM conventions expanding in Europe
Speaking of conventions and their spread, the MCM Comic Con brand is expanding to Germany and Belgium. Currently MCM holds shows in...
ReedPOP and CBS launch 50th Anniversary Star Trek con: ST: Mission New York
More cons! More NICHE cons. And this one is bringing it back to where it all began! ReedPOP, purveyor of New York Comic-Con, PAX,...
Con Wars: Salt Lake and San Diego maybe closer to settling
The ongoing trademark battle between Salt Lake City Comic Con and the San Diego Comic-Con may be closer to settling, although it's only listed...
Author Marc Tyler Nobleman seeks video of a WonderCon panel
Marc Tyler Nobleman is the author of Bill the Boy Wonder, a kids picture book bio of Bill Finger, illustrated by Ty Templeton, and...
The Black Comic Book Festival drew 5000 people
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The Black Comic Book Festival, held at the Schomburg Center in Harlem, just has its 4th outing on Saturday and by all accounts it...
Convention Center Scorecard: Political Footballs in San Diego and Los Angeles
In Geek News: The St. Louis Rams football team will be moving back to Los Angeles.
(Yes, sports fans are geeks... they possess esoteric knowledge,...
MoCCA Arts Festival reveals 2016 key art by Noelle Stevenson
Just in time for her selection as comics industry Person of the Year, Noelle Stevenson has been announced as the creator of the key art for the 2016 MoCCA Arts Festival. MoCCA and Stevenson go back a ways: back in 2013 her student piece "Knight of Swords" was featured in MoCCA's Student Scholarship Competition. Stevenson was just a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art at the time. She's gone on to become a regular exhibitor at MoCCA, and hopefully in 2016 as well.
$1 Billion Expansion of Javits Center Announced by Governor Cuomo
This morning, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a $1 Billion expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City.
Construction will start...
Wizard World Portland gets exclusive Doctor Who variant cover
Wizard World Portland gets the Time Lord treatment in an exclusive variant cover for the upcoming show in February.
CON-solidation: how con fatigue is setting in
ICv2 has an interview with ReedPOP czar Lance Fensterman which covers a lot of growth items for NYCC (Hint: more venues not more days) and also the ongoing con saturation we're seeing:
Comic-Con may be staying in San Diego for now, but the Chargers want to...
This may sound peripheral to the whole "expand the SD convention center" saga, but the problems with the Chargers aging Qualcomm Stadium (built in 1967) is very much in the mix as far as local politics go. The Chargers have been begging for a new stadium for ages—apparently the one they've got is so old it doesn't even serve artisanal hot dogs.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/4/16: They stufffed HOW many people in a comic-con?
Comiket, the world's biggest comics event, shrank a bit at the just concluded winter fest Comiket 89. It only drew 520,000 people over its three day duration, down from 550,000 at Comiket 88 last summer. It's worth noting that this is daily attendance: about 150,000 actual humans actually showed up on day 1, 170,000 on day 2 and 200,000 on day 3. See, even Comiket does turnstile attendance!
