Conventions

I had no idea what to expect as I approached the Wizard World Comic Con NYC Experience last Friday evening. First off it was located a new venue—Basketball City—in a part of Manhattan that I had never been to except on an FDR Drive flyover: a mysterious realm east of Chinatown, north of the Seaport and south of the Williamsburg Bridge. In local speak we call it "no mans land": the moody banks of the East River.

Denver Comic Con is a phenomenon. In only two years, it has become one of the largest comic conventions in the country, and figuring...

Okay we told you ComiXology has a lot of stuff going on at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. Not only are they co-sponsoring the...

Among people I talk to about cons and comics, about half won’t bother to go to Wizard World Cons, about a quarter might go,...

Last weekend saw the second ELCAF take place in London, an indie comic festival which headlined with publishers Nobrow, SelfMadeHero, and Blank Slate. It...

You read that right. The offbeat Valiant buddy comedy is getting a variant cover for comic-con, by indie idol Tony Millionaire. Only 750 copies...

Each year at Comic-Con we wonder what will be the big display outside the Hilton Gaslamp? There's a little grassy patch there and it's...

Comics events in the Big Apple have been gangbusters for the last few years, but that doesn't mean it's easy to put on a...

The floor map of this year's Comic-Con has just been released. It's all here, the toys, the zombies, the heartaches. You can read the complete...

ComiXology is getting more into the mix. Already the #1 digital distributor for comics, with more than 100 million comics downloaded, the company is...

Toucan, the San Diego Comic-Con's official blog, unveiled Dave McKean's Sandman cover for the souvenir books, aka that nice looking thing you get in...

Bucking trends, fans and How I Met Your Mother, one plucky comics publisher is going ahead with plans to actually set up at Comic-Con...