Karen Green to take over CAB programming
After a few very successful years with Paul Karasik steering the programming, Comics Arts Brooklyn has announced a new Programming Director for 2015,...
ComiqueCon Celebrates Women in Comics in November
ComiqueCon, a one-day festival celebrating women in comics, announced plans to bring its inaugural event to the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Mich. on Nov. 7. The festival will bring together female artists, illustrators, publishers and fans for a day of fun and discussion on the growing impact of women readers of comics and graphic novels.
NYCC 2015: Box Office Opens May 13!
GAH! We're heading deep into "comic con summer" (TCAF, BookCon, BookExpo...) and ReedPOP has announced that tickets for New York Comic Con, scheduled for October...
TCAF week is underway; here’s the events listing
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival takes place this weekend, but as regulars know, it's really more of a whole week of comics related events and exhibits. While the TCAf site has a perfectly awesome site listing all the events, just in case you are too lazy to click on the link, I've presented a digest version below.
The programming for TCAF proper is now available on the Guidebook app, but I don't have a copy to point you to. I can tell you I'll be mad busy with four panels! And the entire slate is as star packed as you'd expect.
The weekend is also the anchor for a series of satellite events as follows:
On The Scene: My Escape Into Another World at C2E2
by Seth Ferranti - - If C2E2 was a race I was in it to win it. As I stood in the long line waiting to get in, I felt like I was being herded like cattle. But instead of cattle around me, I turned to my right and there was Captain America, or at least a facsimile of him. A C2E2 staff member bellowed on a megaphone, “Move up closer to the people next to you. More people have to fit in. If you don’t move up I’m going to tell you the ending of Daredevil.”
On the Scene with Smaller Cons—Wizard World and Big Wow
by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson
Comic con season is upon us. It’s time for lining up, hoping to get that autograph and waiting to get into that...
C2E2 attendance continues to grow
ICv2 has a definitive business round-up of C2E2, the Chicago based show that just wrapped it's sixth year. And it's still growing:
Here’s a giant interactive map of 200 comics events around the world
Planning to visit a con, or set up? You can map your world tour with this resource. Biserka Stringer-Horne has just created a...
C2E2 2015: CM Punk to Write Ongoing Marvel Book
CM Punk announces his next step on the journey to be the best fighter/writer in the world.
C2E2 2015: Marvel Secret Wars “Battleworld” Panel
A recap of the Secret Wars: Battleworld panel that teases a lot of upcoming battles in the Marvel Universe.
C2E2 2015: Marvel Secret Wars “Last Days” Panel
A recap of Marvel's "Last Days" Secret Wars panel.
