Conventions

As the SD10 schedule drifts out, the big movie panels are shaping up, and one of the biggest comic book movies at this year's...

It's up! Quick highlights:  10:00-11:00 Publishing Comics— Four publishers—Matt Gagnon (BOOM!), Gary Groth (Fantagraphics), Dallas Middaugh (Del Rey Manga), and Mark Siegel (First Second Books) --...

Panels on imprint, their Henson and Lucid projects and All Ages comics highlight the Archaia panels, and guests include Brian Froud and David Petersen.

Read it and get exhausted all over again. Sob, sob, why did they have to put The Expendables opposite Look Around You? Some quick...

San Diego Preview Night kicks off in exactly two weeks. A fortnight. And as of today we have exactly ONE PRESS RELEASE FROM A COMIC BOOK...

In our San Diego news round-up yesterday we neglected to mention that a contest to win a pass to The Big Show is underway -- and one of its hosts is right here at the Beat! Just click on the Comic-Con banner ad at the top of the pae (if it isn't visible hit refresh and it should be) and the ink will take you to a page where you can enter the contest. Via PR, a few lucky folks have already won four-day passes:

We're gonna try not to have minutely news updates on this year's San Diego, but it's probably gonna be daily from here on out, so here's a round-up of pertinent links and ephemera. Which reminds us....isn't it time San Diego was renamed Douche Prom?

Suck it, gastroentologists! Comic-Con does SO make lots of money for the city of San Diego! At long last an in-depth survey has shown what most long suspected: the San Diego Comic-Con is a cash cow for the local economy. While the con's own internal estimates have the economic impact of the 130,000+ fans who attend Comic-Con every year at more than $50 million, official estimates by the local convention bureau had the show's fiscal impact much lower -- $32 million in 2008. However, an actual survey of con attendees in 2008 has revealed the stunning truth: the con brings in $163 million a year, QUADRUPLE what was thought.

Okay we're not going to post EVERY tv PR we find about Comic-Con, but this one struck very near and dear to our hearts -- it seems Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, the stars of LOOK AROUND YOU are coming to comic-con. Yet another one of our favorite BBC cult shows, LOOK AROUND YOU has run on Adult Swim and if you've seen it you know that science has never been the same since these classic experiments, such as the creation of "sulphagne" or driving while asleep.

As reported here and a few other places, the San Diego Padres baseball team's schedule for July 16th contained an intriguing item called "Comic-Con...

Via pr -- GLEE is coming again and it's gonna be huuuuuge; also lots and lots of Fox cartoons. Fox TV just sent out...

If you read ONE local paper story about a comic-con/nerdlerbrity fest/back issue bonanza, it should be this one by Micaela Hood in the Miami Herald on this weekend's Supercon, because it nicely captures the peaceful intermingling of the fans in their homemade costumes, the dealers selling stickers, and the aging stars with nowhere else to go. As "Comic-Con" has become a brand name for an entrainment event where you can expect all this and MORE, the various strata of con-world must learn to live with one another. Just what IS going through Richard "Shaft" Roundtree's mind, anyway?