Conventions

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.

UPDATE: DeviantArt's Advisor in Chief Josh Wattles has issues a statement on the matter here, stating that the company has a busy schedule and could...

As posted by Torsten earlier, the floor map for SDCC is up....OMG IT'S SO SOON. Seriously I barely got my seedlings for Arbor day and we're planning Hall H already? You can compare the floor map to one from 2011 in this post. I never throw out a pdf! Pretty much the same.

Panic now... For those who are attending, Comic Con International has posted links to the exhibitor map on their blog. Click here to see the Comic-Con...

Image Expo has just announced five more guests, pretty much ensuring that these five will have new IMage titles: Nicola Scott, Jason Aaron, Kyle...

For the second year, ReedPOP has hosted a comics-focused mini-con on the Hudson River: Special Editon: New York City, promoted as "a pure celebration of...

It's a little hard to find concrete reports from indie shows these days unless Secret Acres or Robyn Chapman post reports, from the social media, looks like CAKE Chicago this weekend was a successful indie show. I've heard mixed reports on sales in past years, but based on the "haul photos" I've seen, a lot of comics were purchased. I dug up a few more concrete reports: