Conventions

Yen Press has announced two manga style adaptations of bestselling YA novels: Sherrilyn Kenyon's Chronicles of Nick and Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices trilogy.  HyeKyung Baek...

Various photos taken on the show floor. Click the thumbnails to enlarge.

This is a little premature, but we might be looking at Sesame Street comics in the not-too-distant future.  APE Entertainment, which does have some...

This is interesting.  Viz is migrating Shonen Jump to a digital edition that's only 2 weeks removed from the Japanese original.  (And you can...

So yeah, another New York Comic Con is unfolding around us in all its tumult. We've been caught up in running a panel, and...

Hype alert! I'll be making my only scheduled public appearance at NYCC at 1:30 today.

New York Comic Con kicked off with a retailer breakfast sponsored by Diamond. Held in the Galleria room, it looked great -- and the bacon was surprisingly crisp -- but with an all-glass ceiling and walls it was hard to see or hear the speakers and their slides.

It's official: Three- and four-day passes for New York Comic Con are sold out. And fans are being urged NOT to line up to get in today due to having to line- up outside in a rain-slicked city:

Aside from Friday tickets, New York Comic Con has SOLD OUT!

Here are some sneak peeks, taken from my Samsung phone. Apologies for the resolution.

Events in New York were in full swing last night with the CBLDF signing at Forbidden Planet (above) ...and the Image signing at Jim Hanley's Universe (Moritat, above), and we're soon to be breakfasting with some retailers. Reporting from the floor may be dodgy but stay tuned...it's going to be a wild ride.

Special Ops Beat Correspondent Torsten has already been on the floor for NYCC set-up and filed the following report: