Conventions

For the third year in a row, Donna Barr, creator of the Desert Peach and local activist, hosted the Clallam Bay Comicon in her...

But hurry: They are very limited. Based on the signing schedule I just posted, there will be some BIG surprises at Image Expo. A...

Evil Ernie, last seen in Dynamite's Chaos! mini-series, will be returning in his own series.  Ernie was one of the mainstays of the '90s...

You probably already heard, but Quentin Tarantino is co-plotting a Django (Unchained)/Zorro cross-over with Matt Wagner.  If you've seen his movies, you'll find plenty...

Hall H camping at Comic-Con became a huge thing over the last five years or so, with thousands lined up all night, and for...

It's what I like to call Hell Week, boys and girls, the week before San Diego Comic-Con when every single thing has to get...

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...