Conventions

This will almost certainly be the ultimate Con Disaster story for our times, as least for a year or so. DashCon held over the weekend in Schaumberg, IL, was a first year show aimed at Tumblr culture, planned as a meet-up for Tumblr users and such favorites as Welcome to Night Vale, a transmedia podcast that is sort of a Lake Woebegone for Tumblr-ites, Baker Street Babes, cartoonists such as Noelle Stevenson and…Doug Jones? You know the guy who was in Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth.

As we've been reporting, as comic-cons become bigger and bigger business, more and more under qualified con-runners are getting into the biz, easing to...

From kids to Kirby...even on the SLOW day of con there are over 100 panels. Ballroom 20 will b shut down but Hall H will...

So far this year's San Diego has been sounding pretty routine—no radical new venues or marketing efforts. But that was with 12 days to...

From Betty White to Scott McCloud. I counted 216 programs here. And they've expanded to the Marriott and....the Horton Grand Theater. Make sure to grab a toasted cheese sandwich while you're there. Most of the big movie announcements are still on ice, but some amazing comics folks, including McCloud, Gene Luen Yang, Eleanor Davis, a spotlight on Bill Finger and MORE MORE MORE. Can you feel the feels?

Using numbers from this (itself very interesting) ReedPOP media kit, Janelle Asselin ran numbers on New York Comic-Con demographics, with an eye to growth...

Yes it's that time, people as this site and all remotely connected to pop culture begin to be obsessed with nothing but Comic-Con, the...

OK, it is happening. A comics-themed off-site the Wednesday of Preview Night, this time Image's huge Image Expo event. Expect announcements and Image pride....

Today marks the end of the annual conference of the American Library Association, held June 26-July 1 near Las Vegas, Nevada.  Since it offered...

Building Creative Bridges has an insightful recap of Stan Lee's talk at the American Library Association's annual conference. The most hyperbolic quote? He and his colleagues,...

The annual conference of the American Library Association kicks into high gear today (It's been running since Thursday!), with the first full day of...

Every Winter, the American Library Association holds a conference in an arctic clime (Philadelphia, Boston) where awards are announced and some networking and training...