A Comic-Con comes to India
According to this article, India is getting its first comic-con, a two-day affair to be held next month in New Delhi, and called...Comic-Con India:
Diamond heads back to Chicago for 2011 retailer summit
Diamond has just announced that they'll be holding their retailer's summit this year in conjunction with C2E2 in Chicago, as they did last year. The Midwest location allows for access to a wide swath of retailers. This year's show will focus on the topic of attracting new customers, with a day of workshops and focus groups on Thursday, March 17th, and a retailer breakfast on the 18th. Diamond also announced participation at a variety of shows throughout 2011.
Wizard cons expand potential guest pool
Is Wizard World trying to turn into TCAF? Of late, the convention tour has been reaching out to indie cartoonists, suggesting a rather unlikely team-up.
Crime does not pay: 2 busted for selling bogus Comic-Con passes
Two young men from LA have pled guilty to selling bogus Comic-Con passes. The two advertised their counterfeit passes on Craigslist and sold them...
Self Portraits: Neil Gaiman
Back in the Summer of 1994, I was visiting my relatives in Germany.
I had heard of the Erlangen Comics Salon, a comics festival being held...
51,658 people tried to buy Comic-Con passes today
TicketLeap, the company tasked with handling the onslaught of ticket requests for San Diego, has analysis of how it went. With numbers.
What happens when...
Comic-Con International manages to sell 1000 tickets in 60 seconds. UPDATE: Next announcement in...
Well, the test seems to have worked in that Comic-Con International was able to actually sell 1000 tickets. But it all happened so fast.
People logging into the TicketLeap site were able, after some hanging, to get in and register for tickets. But according to Jonah Weiland, who joined with others to attempt to buy tickets, within moments, a “Checkout failed: Not enough tickets remain for the event to fulfill your purchase” result came up. So about 1000 tickets were sold in 60 seconds. Given the 250-requests-a-second that David Glanzer referred to yesterday, that's not hard to believe.
San Diego Pass-o-ween: David Glanzer on selling tickets
While the annual internet meltdown for getting a hotel room at the Comic-Con International in San Diego is now an annual tradition, it still came as a surprise to many this year that just selling passes to the mega-entertainment/comics event got too big for a server to manage. On November 1, tickets went on sale for the first time, and the con's website couldn't handle the number of requests. On November 22, a second attempt with a new, professional event seller was made, but the demand melted their servers to slag, too.
With the expeditioneers set up at base camp, and looking anxiously at the snows about to come, San Diego is about to make another attempt to scale Everest. The con is trying a test tomorrow at 8 am PST with a two tiered system – Logging onto the site of Ticketleap – a ticketing company Ticketmaster alternative specially set up to handle huge web demand – will get you registered. Once the horde of hits is managed, an email from Epic Registration – which was handling ticket sales in the last attempt -- will allow you to buy two tickets.
Comic-Con schedules test to sell tickets again
After two attempts at putting four-day passes on sale, Comic-Con International: San Diego is giving it another shot, this time with a
Registration Test which will roll out tomorrow. They'll attempt to sell 1000 badges via TWO different companies, in a process so complicated we couldn't summarize if we tried:
Prepare to be skeeved: Dolls of the Cons
Jody Culkin is an artist, photographer, and teacher. Thanks to being married to PW comics maven Calvin Reid, she's also a veteran of many comics and book shows. Camera in hand, she has chronicled the activities and faces of the past seven or eight years of comic cons -- her work can often be found in PW Comics Week.
But she also has a hobby.
Comics invade Singapore with international band of scalawags
The Singapore Toy, Games & Comic Convention was held this weekend in Singapore (where it's now Tuesday), and the excitement for comics seems to have taken hold in this emerging comics nation. The show is notable in that is was purchased by ReedPOP, owner of such domestic fests as New York Comic-Con and C2E2. The guest list was a merry band of international scoundrels, including Phil Yeh, Phil Ortiz, C.B. Cebulski, Matt Fraction, Gail Simone, and Ivan Brandon from the US, Salvador Larroca from Spain, David Lloyd from the UK, Guiseppe Camuncoli from Italy, and, as the wise-cracking gentle giant , Croatia's Esad Ribic. If you were going to cast a comic book convention movie where people have to fight aliens or fend off a killer or fly off to an asteroid to something, you could not have a better bunch. We can just picture the scenes where Fraction must dismantle the alien's guidance system, or Yeh offers to let them read an issue of The Winger Tiger in our mind's eye.
Stumptown goes curated
It was only yesterday that we wrote, "the curated show is here to stay," and sure enough, word has come that the Stumptown Comics Fest is also going curated. . Show director Indigo Kelleigh writes that due to the demand for tables, they already have a waiting list 100 exhibitors long despite moving to a larger venue.
