SDCC '13

Okay kids, the lottery is here. SDCC is going their annual badge resale, but you'll need to enter a lottery to be able to...

If you are like The Beat, you have always wanted to see a graphic of San Diego Comic-Con's attendance growth and now thanks to this infographic presented by Film School Rejects and BuyCostumes.com, you can! (click for big) There's much more in the complete chart including masquerade info and how Comic-Con compares to a Super Bowl in economic impact.

Hotels, badges...can there be yet another San Diego Comic-Con-related lottery? Why yes. Parking. Ace Parking offers pre-sale parking at the convention center for $12...

Get those packages out today with material for consideration in the Eisner Awards. Details here. Judging will take place next month (if the usual...

While we all know the San Diego Comic-Con reigns as the biggest, loudest, most stressful and exciting media event in the world, we've also...

Since planning for Comic-Con is now a year-round endeavor, here's some of the latest news for July's megafest. § The much-debated convention center expansion...

As the lamentwitterations filter over the land, the results of this year's Hoteloween are being discovered. And while the lucky ones who got their first hotel choice smile to themselves, the tweets of the homeless fill the air.

That's right, even if you weren't on the internet at 12:00:00 pm pst ON THE DOT, there are still excellent hotels available right now. Many are on the shuttle root, many are name brand resorts.

If you're into writers of the past and present or cartoonists of the future, here's your chance to help honor someone in either category. Both the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing -- which recognizes comics writers past and present -- and the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award -- which recognizes a new artist who is, uh, promising -- are open for nominations. Both awards and finalists are chosen by juries, but they accept nominees.

The technical causes of the heartache and frustration experienced by those hoping to register for this year's CCI: San Diego were enough for the CCI folks to issue the following statement:

Everyone hit go, complain, spinning wheel, white room, waiting list, unfair, people got in ahead of me, don't refresh!, crying, spinning wheel, oh god you hit refresh no why oh god no, why isn't there a lottery, Comic-Con sucks, hooray this is going to be the best week of my life, etc etc etc.

This Saturday at February 16, 2013 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time (PT), badges for the 2013 Comic-Con International San Diego will go on sale. There will be joy, there will be despair, there will be tweets, there will be a video.