Conventions

So Thought Bubble 2013 has come and gone, a massive celebration of British - and foreign - comics talent, lead by the mighty Lisa...

This gallery of photos from a 1980’s SF Convention has been floating around for a while, but it just crossed my timestream. While all convention photos from every era share a few things—gaudy hotel carpet backgrounds, at least one ill at ease looking guy with a pencil mustache, women with flaming red hair—this one does prove a few things. Although they didn't call it "cosplay" back then —I believe the term was costuming—obviously people liked dressing just as scantily.

Tonight sees the British Comic Awards underway as part of Thought Bubble, with awards being handed out for Best Comic, Best Book, Emerging Talent...

While for some thoughts are turning to Thought Bubble in Leeds or the Miami Book Fair, ou on the west coast, it's the fifht...

You'd think with New York Comic-Con over, I'd be settling down to the Halloween festivities and on to the holidays...but noooooo. Through a series of odd circumstances, I'll actually be at three shows in five weeks!

You might not know that tomorrow is in fact Dungeon Fun Day, but if you're a fan of fun comics like Adventure Time or...

Next weekend - the 23rd/24th - sees Thought Bubble kick off once more, officially the best convention in the UK and therefore I would...

After two successful years in Anaheim, WonderCon is staying there for the third year in a row, as revealed on the show's official page....

Yikes, the 2014 comics calendar just got a new event to get it off to a bangin' start: the third Image Expo, to be...

They are dressed up across the nation, and here in durham, NC for the NC Comicon which is winding up as you read this....

And yet more amazing comics. Please stop by and check these out, and if you can't go, surf on the links like I'm doing. A lot of great books and new cartoonists to discover.

Yet more incredible debut books from tomorrow's Comic Arts Brooklyn fest, being held at the Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the Knitting Factory down the street.