Conventions

As reported the other day, ticket sales for New York Comic Con started at noon on Wednesday and ended in agony for most...

While fans were cursing the fates here in the U.S. as they tried to score tickets to New York Comic Con, fans in Austria...

New York Comic-Con tickets went on sale at noon EDT, and the server is having a hard time coping with demand, as a random sampling of tweets from a ten second window show.

Jamie Coville deserves immense praise for his efforts at recording panels at the conventions he attends, and he was at it again at TCAF...

Comic-Con International: San Diego has announced their fourteenth and final wave of Comic-con guests:

Via Mark Evanier's blog, I discovered two tidbits of interesting news: The Riviera Hotel and Casino, one of the oldest on the Vegas Strip, was...

After a few very successful years with Paul Karasik steering the programming, Comics Arts Brooklyn has announced a new Programming Director for 2015,...

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.

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...

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:

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.”

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...