Conventions

Just a quickie from the lobby -- great show, great people, and also a fantastic mix of comics and genres, from comic strips to...

The internet and the floor at HeroesCon were both abuzz with the announcement of Marvel's first simultaneous print and digital release with INVINCIBLE IRON...

Using the lobby Wi-Fi, while everyone else is at the con, but everyone is having a great time. As Johanna Draper Carlson put...

As usual, southern hospitality is keeping HeroesCon at the Charlotte Convention center a laid-back relax-a-con as opposed to some of the more frantic offerings...

Things to do. People to see. Cool art by Scott Morse and Tom Fowler. In case you haven't figured it out yet...ALL the cool people are going to HeroesCon, and it's gonna be a good time. You know the drill.

Can you help identify these pioneers? At first we were amazed at the number of girls there but then remembered it was the 70s and everyone has long hair. Also, maybe it's just those 70s fashions, but nerds of the 70s would totally be Williamsburg hotties today. Finally, notice how slim they are, in a world where high fructose corn syrup didn't exist.

The ongoing contest for the hand of Comic-Con International took another turn last week when San Diego Convention Center Corp. sent out an email to local hotels asking them to put in writing what they will charge for hotel rooms for Con. With Los Angeles and Anaheim's bids for the show getting more and more serious -- and Comic-Con organizers taking their time to make a decision -- it's yet another way to sweeten the pot and keep the Con in San Diego.

Are the Con Wars East over, or at least moving into a new, less militarized phase? The Beatand his Wizard army has announced a MAJOR pullback from hostilities, moving the 2010 Big Apple Con, which has been scheduled directly opposite and 20 blocks north of the New York Comic-con on October 7-10, to October 1-3, a week earlier.

Wow, Ultimate Con-Wars is heating up with this interview with LA Inc SVP Senior Vice President Michael Krouse and avp of Media Relations & Communications Carol Martinez. Krouse is the driving force behind LA's bid for the San Diego Comic-Con -- an ongoing wooing that Krouse has been pressing for years. And in this interview he lays it all on the line, baby, he''ll work.

By now you all know that Sunday's Simpsons episode used Ke$ha's Tik Tok as their opening theme as the above video shows. But did you know the episode also contained an in-joke relating to the San Diego Comic-Con's potential move to Anaheim? It's true! ...Thanks to ZT for the tip.

Oh, San Diego, how you have changed your tune. Increasingly serious about keeping what they now admit is tens of millions of dollars in revenue...

Comic-Con International held a board meeting yesterday, but a decision was NOT reached on whether to stay in San Diego or to move...