Saturday all hell breaks loose! Mark Waid! The Wayans Brothers! Oni! Damon Lindelof! GERARD BUTLER! Bob Burden! Kazuo Koike! Mary Fleener! Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, and Forry Ackerman together! Roger Langridge! Yoshihiro Tatsumi! Jon Favreau! Lee Marrs! Everett Peck! Bruce Campbell! Kevin Huizenga! Veronica Mars! Nicolas Cage! Jackson Publick! Yoshitaka Amano! Yieeee! DEAR DEAR GERARD […]
TO DO 7/7 BKNY: Rosario Dawson at Rocketship
That’s right, the OCCULT CRIME TASKFORCE is coming to Crooklyn! This Friday night, July 7th, at 6pm, please join us as we welcome David Atchison, Tony Shasteen, and Rosario Dawson. They will be signing copies of their new book OCCULT CRIMES TASKFORCE from Image Comics. (preview here) This is the premeire issue of a series […]
Heaven is for Heroes
With one of two exceptions, you can name anything or anyone in comics and you will always hear some caveats or complaints, no matter how popular or loved the thing is. But there are a few exceptions, and Heroes Con is one of them. Whenever it comes up, people say “You should go! it’s fun!” […]
What you will be doing on Friday, July 21 in San Diego
Friday programming is up! Sid Jacobsen and Ernie Colon talk 9/11! Stan Lee talks Spidey! Cherry Chevapravatdumrong talks Family Guy! Ahmet Zappa! Fat Momma! Scott McCloud! Snoop Dog! Amanda Connor! Eddie Campbell! Gene Yang! Amy Ganter! Lucy Lawless! RZA! Richard Kelly! Linda Medley! Jaime Pressly! Tycho & Gabe! Jennie Breeden! Samuel L Jackson! And…ROBBY THE […]
SDCC Programming for Thursday, July 20
Aieeeeee! It has begun!!! Brian Bolland! Rosario Dawson! Peter S. Beagle! Tim Biskup! David Arquette! Deepak Chopra AND Grant Morrison! KLANG! The Beat
Heroes Con ’06 Photo Parade
With a heaping helping of southern hospitality, aided by caffeine infusions at all hours, and only slightly impeded by the terror of BAGWORMS, Heroes Con ’06 was the friendly yet star-studded fest that everyone was expecting. Kudos to Shelton Drum and his crew for pulling it all off. We’re still working on our general remarks, […]
Xavier found in Gaslamp
Tom Galloway writes to tell us: Was surfing around to see what the Gaslamp Quarter restaurant scene looks like this year when I happened on an entry for the new-since-last-year Xavier’s Bar and Grill. Poor guy loses his mutant powers and gets kicked out of his own school and the best he can do is […]
More Heroes Con memories
Newsarama has a nice wrap-up report Fridayâs line was mirrored Saturday and Sunday as the show saw its highest attendance in over a decade. Anecdotally, the only day that had an even semi-solid estimate in terms of numbers was roughly 5,000 people through the door on Friday. Many observers speaking with Newsarama expressed the feeling […]
Anime Expo this weekend
It’s the biggest anime/manga fest of the year, highlighted by the epochal appearance of CLAMP! Pata has an entertaining run down of panels 1:00-2:00 pm CLAMP Panel Seating. Yes, the pre-event seating counts as something major, because I would like to see this just for the catfighting that will inevitably ensue. A cosplay Kamui will […]
ALA in perspective
Robin Brenner, Creator & Editor in Chief of Noflyingnotights.com, wrote to give us some much needed background on the graphic novel panel at the recent ALA show which Neil Gaiman reported on and we quoted: First, just to say, we were all thrilled that Neil Gaiman took the time to attend our panel. Both the […]