San Diego Comic Fest ’17: Up and Early for Social Fandom for Geek Properties
Bright and early on a Sunday morning, collected in San Diego Comic Fest’s make shift “Kirby Café” panelists Jenny Stiven, Jonathan Tavss (working in...
San Diego Comic Fest ’17: Arlen Schumer Pays Tribute to Jack Kirby and Denounces...
Artist, illustrator, writer, and in a way Jack Kirby historian are a few of the titles that Arlen Schumer would claim for himself....
The Coolest Things I Saw Saturday at Toy Fair…
This is my first Toy Fair as "press", and it was fun walking around, searching for geekery items, brainstorming a little with the company...
San Diego Comic Fest Kicks Off with a Heavy Storm and Jack Kirby
As the winds howled outside and rain beat against the roof of the Four Points hotel by Sheraton, one thing was blatantly obvious: bad...
Does San Diego need both San Diego Comic-Con and San Diego Comic Fest?
Once upon a time, there wasn’t a San Diego Comic-Con.
Some would mark this period as “The Dark Ages of Conventions” (those being myself). It...
No Spandex Saturday: E3 Makes the dreams of 15,000 average gamers come true.
For years the Super Bowl of video games has been industry only, meaning if the average die hard gamer wanted to attend you had...
Rose City Comic Con partners with LeftField Media
In another sign of CON-solidation, LeftField Media has added Portland's Rose City Comic Con to their line-up of shows. RCCC began in 2011 under showrunners Ron...
Conchella: Atomic Crush Events to throw Comic Con Revolution
Last week, we mentioned behind the scenes convention veteran Mike Scigliano had opened the doors of his new event management company. Today, Atomic Crush...
MoCCA Fest 2017 reveals key art by Becky Cloonan
The Society of Illustrators has just unveiled the key art for the fifteenth annual MoCCA Arts Festival. It's by Becky Cloonan, so it's gorgeous. The...
Interview: The Magicians Returns and The Cast is Ready–Are You?
By Victor Van Scoit
Last year SyFy gave us Lev Grossman's The Magicians brought to life from page to screen by co-creators John McNamara and Sera...
Atomic Crush Events is open and taking conventions to their next level.
The convention scene is a fickle thing. Fans today are smart enough to see through the facade of new shows springing up which turn...
Phoenix Comicon decides to hire staff after all
After a few weeks of passionate arguments on all sides, and some legal squinting, Phoenix Comicon adn releated shows have decided to drop the "pay...
















