Conventions

It seemed to start at this year's ECCC, and before the year is out we'd expect it to be the new standard: streaming panels live from comic-cons for those who can't go but want to follow along at home. This year at C2E2 in Chicago, Twitch will be streaming a bunch of panel (Including one that includes The Beat DREDD and beyond)

Lots to drink do after hours at C2E2! Many details here.

Spekaing of sellouts, this weekend's Calgary Expo, which boasts a huge media and comics guest list of everyone from Stan Lee to Norman Reedus,...

@briansteez has informed me that #NYCC 4 day tickets are now sold out.Look for 3 days on sale soon....— lfensterman (@lfensterman) April 25, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Meanwhile,...

Greetings from Chicago. While The Beat has been faithfully ensconced in the Diamond Retailer Summit all day, C2e2 has been setting up shop across...

For the last few days Image has been releasing ambiguous teasers of this kind. Here at his lunch presentation at the 2013 Diamond Retailer summit, Image publisher Eric Stephenson revealed that it refers to a big media event to be held on that date in San Francisco. Robert Kirkman and Ed Brubaker will be there along with many "special guests." Admission will be charged but the event is free for retailers or press.

If social media is any indication, the amount of excitement over this year's C2E2—the big ReedPOP comics/entertainment expo in Chicago—is quite high. After a...

C2E2 -- the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo—kicks off on Friday although we'll be there from tomorrow on to cover the preceding Diamond Retailer summit. As they've done in the past. ReedPOP has provided us with a text only list of panels which is easier to scan than the database driven on eon the site. Sadly, it still doesn't include panel participants, but maybe next time. On the plus side -- very plus -- this is easily the best programming for C2E2 yet, a nice diverse blend of comics, SF, gaming and social based events with a strong local component. Some people last year questioned whether C2E2 would even make it to a fourth year, but it looks like its found its footing at last.

Wizard World has just filed its annual report for 2012  and the convention business was up a good bit in 2012. Year Ended December 31, 2012 December 31,...

by LTZ -- There was some unpleasantness in Boston this week -- you might have heard. Friday afternoon, mere hours before the FBI and police captured suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Hynes Convention Center sent word down: Boston Comic Con was off. It was an everyone-loses situation: the con organizers are almost certainly out a lot of money for nothing, the guests are out potential income (especially those who were taking a weekend off from steady gigs), the fans are out their con experience, the cosplayers are out their costume contest, and the retailers were out a big source of revenue. This was such an eleventh-hour move by the Hynes that the retailers had their merch packed up and ready to go, just waiting for the all-clear to start hauling it into the convention center.

Warning: watching this video is likely to cause your blood pressure to rise.

With the extraordinary events in Boston today shutting down the Boston Comic Con that was planned for this weekend, local Retailer Larry Doherty of...