Conventions

Okay its official -- EVERYONE is coming to Comic-Con and putting on a show. If you thought it was already a three-ring circus, you were only half right Now it's a three-ring 3D circus. Cirque du Soliel the internationally renowned brand-name for acrobatics, swinging by your hair, juggling and other wonderment, will be bringing the finale of its Kâ show to Comic-con in a staging at Petco Park on Friday Night, which will be set against a 3D projections.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: WAR IN THE NORTH is a new video game for multiple platforms which, as we've excitedly mentioned before, covers the war in the north between the various races of Middle Earth. They'll be marking a major presence Comic-Con with a big event Saturday night in the Gaslamp district.

Sunday programming for this year's San Diego Comic-Con has been released. Hollywood has left, except for a few stragglers, and Old Town comes out in full force:

Everything you need to know about the future of comics, the death of the pamphlet, webcomics, and the Britisdh invasion of comics.

True believers will have a lot to see and do at Comic-con.

People...places...comics...Eisners...

First Comics is coming back in a relaunch led by co-founder Ken Levin and Larry Young.

Top Shelf has shared their signings and book debuts with us and here's the list: Debuts/Signings: -- Craig Thompson (redesigned Blankets Hardcover & Softcover) -- Kagan McLeod (Infinite Kung Fu) -- Nate Powell (Any Empire) -- Robert Venditti/Mike Huddleston (The Homeland Directive) -- Ray Friesen (Pirate Penguin vs Ninja Chicken) -- plus the new Okie Dokie Donuts (Story 1) -- plus the new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1969

Artist John Higgins is a crucial member of the Watchmen team -- he colored the original and the remastered Absolute edition. To mark 25 years of Watchmen -- and his appearance as part of the con's year of the Brit -- Higgins is releasing a limited edition Watchmen portfolio exclusively for San Diego Comic-Con 2011.


Programming for PREVIEW NIGHT and Thursday is up! If there ain't something you like here then you are sick of life! Highlights later,

CCI has just released the exhibitor list and floor plan for this year's show. How you can figure out your escape route, and where to pose, and how long it will take to go from the Corey Feldman autographing session to buying a an exclusive Mini-Mate 7th Bounty Hunter from the left action figure. We've made our own EXCLUSIVE annotated map with some regions of note. Click to embiggen.

The con itself rolls out a couple of features, Fantagraphics announces some amazing debuts, and Casey/Johnny Storm/Lucas Lee/Jensen/Steve Rogers will be signing at the Marvel booth, most likely.