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Well it's seems the Salt Lake City con hits its goal with 100,00 attendees, according to a press release. That would make it the third biggest show in the US. Show Runner Dan Farr is very bullish on the show.

Okay this is an ad for Ikea, but it is also a fantasy for most of us. Like, a Sex in the City/Axe ad level fantasy.

This gallery of photos from a 1980’s SF Convention has been floating around for a while, but it just crossed my timestream. While all convention photos from every era share a few things—gaudy hotel carpet backgrounds, at least one ill at ease looking guy with a pencil mustache, women with flaming red hair—this one does prove a few things. Although they didn't call it "cosplay" back then —I believe the term was costuming—obviously people liked dressing just as scantily.

Man, you think the comics world is hot shit, and then you see this headline at HuffPo: 70-Year-Old Woman Auctions Off $1 Million Worth...

Fangasm, the reality show about nerds and their amazing lives, ended its run this week with a two hour season finale. I have to...

While stock is still being taken of the record crowd at this year's New York Comic-Con—a crowd by and large peaceful and fun...

It started, as we noted the other day, when Allie Conti, a writer for Vice, The Atlantic and New Times in Florida, wrote a...

by Brett Schenker -- It’s Monday, which means it’s a new edition of Facebook Fandom Spotlight, where I break down the demographics of a particular group of fans. For this week I attempt to figure out who exactly is creating and delivering us out comic books. That’s right, I attempt to break down those employed in the comic book industry. We’ll compare this group to the greater comic fandom.

By Brett Schenker Two years and some months ago, I posted the first study of what Facebook told us about comic book fans. 45 or...

In all the gender controversies rattling the comics world, one of the most frequently cited paradoxes is that although research such as DC's 2011 reader survey showed only 7% of comics readers were female, yet when you walk around any comicksy event you see a lot more than 7% women. Women make up a lot of tweeters, tumblrs, and cosplayers and cartoonists. Why this disparity?

Given the popularity of "Face Off", the SFX makeup competition show, it was only a matter of time before Cosplay got tome TV time—it's...

By Megan Byrd In the weeks and months leading up to the annual spectacle known as "San Diego Comic Con", dread of this event is...