San Diego Comic-Con notes: Pro Reg opens as convention centers expansion wrangling drags on
Here's a little round-up of San DIego's two mayoral candidates, running to fill the seat left vacant when serial groper/haarasser Bob Filner got the...
SPX Exhibitor 2014 Lottery is underway!
That's right the first ever lottery style exhibitor application process is underway— a mad dash for table space at the one of the exceedingly...
Emerald CIty Comic Con 3-day passes already sold out online
Well, add Emerald City Comic Con on March 28-30th as a comics show where you need to be diligent about getting your passes AHEAD OF TIME. Three day passes for the Seattle show are now SOLD OUT online, but still available from retailers listed on this page. The retailers are all in the Seattle area so if you were planning on going you might want to find a pal to go pick you up a pass.
Is Image just a bunch of white dudes? Yes and no…
As soon as the above triumphal tableau from Image Expo was posted, just after Princess Leia presented Scott Snyder with his medal, I knew...
The Beat’s Annual Year End Survey, 2014 Edition, Part 3 — more thoughts on...
Yep it's more picks and prognostications, with a few tasty previews thrown in.
Ted McKeever, cartoonist
2014 Projects: THE SUPERANNUATED MAN
A new Golden Age...
Comic-Con announces first 20 guests for 2014
Speaking of anxiety dreams, Comic-Con International has announced the their first 20 guests. ta da! And they are:
Amanda Conner, artist, Power Girl, Before Watchmen:...
Nice photos: Comic-Con International 2013 Photo Gallery
The San Diego Comic-Con's official site has a nice picture gallery of the 2013 show up, that is sure to trigger flashbacks just like...
TCAF announces first six guests and expanding programming for 2014
While 2013's plum pudding is yet to be fully digested, the menu for 2014's comics events highlights is being set. And here to light...
Portland’s Stumptown Comics Festival on hold as some operations move to Rose CIty...
The Stumptown Comics Festival , Portland's long running indie comics show, is ending in its present form, but the Awards and its indie-focused programming...
UPDATE: Troubles and plagiarism charges grow for LaBeouf as Clowes contemplates legal action
LaBeouf-Gate—in which an A-list young actor continues to dig himself deeper and deeper after cluelessly ripping off a Daniel Clowes comic as the basis for a short films because SQUIRREL!—has been developing on several fronts.
Did Shia LaBeouf rip off a Daniel Clowes comic for his short film? UPDATE:...
If you look at the plot of Shia La Bouef's short film Howard Cantour, it sounds exactly like Daniel Clowes's short comic Justin M....
Must read: Convention Exhibitor Mega Survey shows what comics shows were most profitable for...
WOW. This is truly groundbreaking information. Mirthful culture Magazine The Devastator recently ran a poll asking exhibitors at various comics shows—from San Diego to SPX—how much money they made, where they exhibited and many other things. The results have been put into a fascinating infographic which we've only excerpted below. Go to the link to see ALL the info, including which shows made the most money, which are in decline and so on.














