Conventions

Before You Buy The Book See The Movie By David Nieves Tons of exciting announcements came out of the Image Expo keynote today. It's become the...

What goes up, must deal with thinner oxygen at higher atmospheres. The last two years have seen unprecedented growth in comic cons/ media events around the world, with many showing spectacular growth. But as we keep pointing out in our "When a con is crap" recurring feature, this also means a lot of fly by nighters and unprepared rookies are jumping in and not achieving the results they might have hoped for. And along the way, unsuspecting vendors, guests and attendees are getting caught holding the empty oxygen tank.

New year, new looks for some familiar websites, and some observations about Comic Con that I never revealed until now!

It's a time of consolidation and retrenching, and some don't make the journey to the next phase. One such entity is the Detroit Fanfare convention, as announced on this Facebook post. A planned February is being cancelled, a Kickstarter cancelled (and pledges not charged) and the event is not going to be held again.

By David Nieves The holiday isn't quite over yet but Dark Horse Comics is already getting set to take our Christmas money. Today the publisher...

Long Beach Comic Con 2014: Did Cosplay drive up Attendance and Sales? by Pamela Auditore Ticket sales for the Long Beach Comic Con held the weekend...

Soon 2014 will be a memory and 2015 will be an itinerary from Travelocity. And WonderCon Anaheim—to be held April 3-5 in Anahaim has...

This weekend's poison gas attack on a furry convention continues to be the source of much talk. New York Magazine interviewed Keu, a furry...

You heard it right. Strike while the iron is hot. In an announcement on his Facebook page, Broderick has announced his intentions to start...

I'm not going to give updates on this every time there's a post, but just to keep up with various developments, that indie comics...

SIMPSONS creator @mattgroening4 just popped into #thinktankgallery for the @ComicArtsLA event. Only 3 HOURS LEFT! pic.twitter.com/1AjbgP7VEy — Think Tank Gallery (@ThinkTankDTLA) December 6, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js ...or that's...

That is certainly not a headline I ever thought I would write. Thousands of people attending MidWest Furfest, a large gathering of Furry enthusiasts,...