Conventions

Here's a listing of the books that will be debuting this Saturday at the first Comic Arts Brooklyn festival. Information has been supplied by the exhibitors and hopefully something here will pique your interest. If you don't find something to pique your interest, you don't really like comics.

I'm so glad Tuscon Comic-Con was success. Maybe I'm biased and I'm proud of the Old Pueblo (Google it). The sixth annual comic con...

Even as comic-con fever sweeps the nation, a few areas remain problematic, and of them all the most problematic has traditionally been Los Angeles,...

Under the watchful eye of Buddy Scalera, the editors-in-chief for Dark Horse, IDW and Valiant gathered to advise writers and artists on how to...

Underground comics have made household names for a number of comics creators, whom at the forefront exposed a new era of radically unorthodox...

London Super Comic-Con, which started big with Stan Lee in 2012 and managed to keep the energy up (and improve as an event) this...

Detroit FanFare, which was held this past weekend, was the first show this year that I spent mostly behind a table, being a dutiful guest of the show. It was a welcome change from the usual running around and helping Ben McCool work his table meant I got to see comic-con culture from a new viewpoint. And I learned some things.

Last weekend I headed south for Kendal, a bustling town in the beautiful Lake District of England for a comics festival with a difference....

Moderated by Heidi MacDonald, this was a panel featuring a line-up of European artists discussing the rise and change in foreign comic markets. Panellists...

Once again, Chevy produced a white car, and allowed various artists to modify the body with body art. (Here are pictures from 2011.  Scroll down.) The...

Even if you're not at the Detroit Fanfare there is plenty to do around the world in comics this weekend!

By Bruce Lidl While the vast bulk of the comics industry, including most of The Beat staff, was gathered in Manhattan for New York Comic...