Toronto ho!
It seems that we will once again be guests at next year's Toronto Comic-con along with Trish Mulvihill, Tania del Rio and Gail Simone, and doubtless many more to be announced.
Dragon*Con Bodice wrap-up
The other big fandom event this weekend was DragonCon down in Atlanta, and this show just gets nuttier and nuttier every year, apparently, and has beome a haven for admirers of the bodice treatment....
Baltimore promotes Webcomic HOTNESS
We'll be away again this weekend at the Baltimore Comic-con, an old fashioned comics type get together that is always fun. While the show is certainly not indie UN-friendly, we'd say the focus is...
Toronto Fan Expo Wrap-ups
Everyone is wrapping up the Great Canadian Comics War. Sequential leads the pack:
Well, the convention everyone loves to hate, Hobbystar's Fan Expo, happened over the past weekend. Among all the news about minor Hollywood...
PAX and Penny Arcade rule
This weekend's big video game/webcomic event was a convention thrown by a couple of webcomickers, PAX namelyPenny Arcade gang, Tycho and Gabe. Both Kotaku and Joystiq, the main vidgame blogs have extensive coverage. The...
McNiven allowed out of the house for a day
Steve McNiven, remember him? The guy who destroyed the comics industry? Yeah, that's right.
We kid about the destruction thing, but the life of the modern comics superstar is thrown into relief by this...
Baltimore Comic-con update
More guests! More events! More TUMBLERS! It's almost time for the Baltimore Comic-con, an always fun sojourn down on the Inner Harbor. While we just received an updated list of show exclusives which...
It’s MAGIC! at Dragon*Con with Misty Lee
Dragon*Con is definitely the most...unusual stop on the convention circuit. Held in Atlanta every Labor Day Weekend, it has the reputation as a show where fantasy reigns supreme and costumed con-goers parade down Main...
One more con: The Toronto Kerfluffle
The Toronto Star investigates the great Toronto Convention War:
There is a secret war brewing in this city's comics scene.Like any story set among spandex-clad vigilantes, this one conforms to some of the rules of...
Cons around the nation: Wichita, Seattle
Wichita, KS survives the trauma of cosplay, as the second Anime Festival Wichita draws to a close and a reporter wonders at the ability of people with shared interests to...meet!
More than 2,000 people were...
ComiKet heck!
Naniwa at MangaCast continues his account of ComiKet, the world's biggest comics show, with 300,000 attendees who are there to buy fan made comics. First comes the girl's day:
Follow me again, as I stumble...
A little bit more WizWorld fallout
Shocked reactions to the dismissal of Gabe Fieramosco and Stewart Morales, both here and at Newsarama have been overflowing. In Fieramosco's case, in particular, professional after professional from Peter David to Talant Caldwell to...