San Diego: Your feet will hurt even more
A story from last week we didn't have time for: San Diego has announced a planned 300,000 sq. ft expansion of their existing convention...
Baltimore Comic-Con this weekend
Yes, it's Baltimore once again! We elected to go down and enjoy the Harveys, the scenic inner harbor and our occidental pals as opposed...
New York Anime Fest THIS WEEKEND
The New York Anime Fest kicks off today, and we haven't given this NEARLY the kind of buildup we should have, but it should...
SPX is coming…let’s party!
Hoo boy, SPX is looming in a few weeks, and Baltimore Comic-Con and the New York Anime Fest are just around the corner. We...
The mighty PAX
Some news over the weekend from PAX, the show that started as a fan-meet-up for PENNY ARCADE:
The Penny Arcade Expo celebrates its fifth anniversary...
Ah, Dragon-Con
We received some photos -- retrieved at great peril -- of our pal Bob Burden at Dragon-Con.
Our roving reporter spotted Bob Burden right after...
More 1974 Comic-con memories
Via Sean Chen, more photos from Eugene Gordon, taken at a comic book convention at the Biltmore in New York, 1974.
You know what's interesting...
Brief links
§ John Jakala runs into the kind of people who reflexively defend the superhero genre while observing:
The superhero comics that do stand out are...
FOUND: New York Comic Con c. 1974
Artist Sean Chen wrote to us with a real comic book history mystery. It seems that Sean's neighbor is a man named Eugene Gordon,...
The very last links
§ Just for the record. Everyone -- but everyone -- sent us these links to Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at SDCC. Part 1...
The future of The Land of Wanders
Graeme McMillan rounds up all of the complaints and dark sides and whatnot in a fairly brilliant post all should read:
It was the con...
SDCC: a few last nibbles
Gordon Bennett! It takes a whole week just to catch up with all the Comic-Con stuff online! We are done after this -- we...
