Conventions

You may have noticed the new banner ad for WonderCon in Anaheim March 29-31, but what about a hoped for fall WonderCon back in the Bay Area? A statement on the WonderCon page says it is not to be:

So much going on part ii! But they are all in Brooklyn so gallery hopping is somewhat do able. Too Art for TV 6 We are...

A few straggler debuts are coming in for this weekend's Brooklyn Comcis and Graphic Fest including The Beat's own Michel Fiffe with COPRA. It's 24 pp, full color and Fiffe expects it to be MONTHLY.

The con season is finally wrapping up and I end it with a high note in my backyard.  By: Henry Barajas The con was founded by Mike Olivares a...

It's not too early to think about 2013, is it? Egads. To wit, panel submissions are now open for C2E2 which will be held...

King Con is on! This will come as news to many since the show never really let anyone know it was happening. But it is...

Well, the fifteenth New York Comic Con just concluded ten days of pop cultural programming in Manhattan.  While ReedPOP does not release exact data...

How times change. Whereas in past years, San Diego city fathers and mothers were indifferent at best to the pop culture behemoth running through their streets, the battle for the con in 2010 seems to have permanently changed attitudes. After a protracted negotation over where to hold the show in 2013 and beyond, Comic-Con and the city agreed to a three-year contract, running through 2015. However, perhaps fearful of another battle for the con, SD mayor Jerry Sanders has preemptively announced Comic-Con has signed a one year extension for 2016.

By most accounts, this past New York Comic Con was a success, giving fans access to all kinds of stars, comics and otherwise, and presenting a news fusillade on many topics. It was also crowded, congested and teeming with people. Crowding has been a serious issue at NYCC ever since the very first one, which was shut down by state troopers and left many people who had purchased tickets stuck outside. Since then the madding hordes have ebbed, but mostly flowed. Crowd control was pretty horrible in 2010, and got a little better in 2011—but my witnesses say it was back to 2010 levels this year.

Something which totally skipped me at NYCC, presumably due to being a thousand miles away from it, was the reveal of some Cliff Chiang's...

Last weekend, The Frankfurt Book Fair showcased two German comics awards: The Deutscher Cartoon Preis (German Cartoon Prize), awarded since 2006 Sondermann Publikumspreis (Sondermann audience award),...

So there are numerous comics fans wandering the Frankfurt Book Fair.  There are lots of manga fans, perhaps more than would be found at...