Conventions

A Shop Called Quest  Booth # 4531 Adventure Time Fionna & Cake Card Wars #1 A Shop Called Quest SDCC Variant Cover Adventure Time Fionna &...

By Nick Eskey Thanks for tuning in boys and girls! This is the Friday update for the newest Funko toy exclusives available at this year’s San...

Two weeks out from Comic-Con (that's next week) is generally what we call "Hell Week" as all the details get locked down, programming goes out, meetings get set, dinners take shape and so on. But we're beginning to get a picture of what's new this year. And one thing that wont be new is selfie sticks on the con floor. The Con has updated its Tech rules to keep pace with the times, and selfie sticks, live streaming from panels, e-cigs and more are all prohibited:

Saskatoon Blitz is an anime/cosplay focused event that has been running for a few years with a good reputation, so this isn't a first year show meltdown, but they do seem to have had some real organizational problems this time out. Several exhibitors had problems with staff over tables in artists alley being first come, first served (what?) and then confusion over the show's hours led to a dispute that ended with an exhibitor being escorted from the show. And just to make it totally gross, on a private message board for the event, staffers started making horrible rape jokes about the exhibitor who complained. Not cool.

By Nick Eskey Funko, the company best known for their “POP!” line of figurines, will be releasing a plethora (great word huh?) of Comic Con...

The 12th Doctor and Clara battle an Alien force at SDCC in a con-exclusive issue is center stage among the con-exclusive offerings from Titan which also include a triptych of interlocking covers featuring Tennant, Capaldi and Smith and 10th doctor figures.

There is nothing quite like EternalCon. It's a throwback comics show with longboxes, cartoonists, wrestlers, Star Trek Cast members, toys and masks...all set in an aviation museum, namely the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, LI. This year's event expanded quite a bit from last year, and artists alley was set up in the actual museum, so you could wander around and buy a comic from Greg Pak and then look at a Spitfire, or buy some old books while perusing the terrain of Mars. I saw a lot of oddball robotic sculptures dotting the premises and I never figured out of they were part of the con or part of the museum.

Aspen Comics reveal their plans for SDCC including a very limited edition of Michael Turner's Fathom.

This weekend there's plenty of comics activity around NYC. Many will be interested in FlameCon, the first ever queen comic-con in NYC, to...

As we reported the other day, the art sharing site/social network DeviantArt pulled out of sponsoring Artists' Alley at the Sn Diego Comic-Con this...

By Nick Eskey Those who are watching the ticking clock of San Diego Comic-Con know that it’s less than a month away. This is one...

With all the comic cons and comic arts festivals going on, creators and exhibitors are becoming increasingly picky about what shows they go to. A lot of it is scheduling, but more and more what makes a good show is whether it's profitable or not. You may recall the the Devastator and The Beat did a survey to get an idea of how and how much money people are making at shows. And of course there have been various arguments over whether cosplay, celebrities or hot dogs on a stick have more effect on poor sales at shows.