This has been the first public engagement by the new organisation since the conclusion of the legal case mounted by the previous organiser and original festival assocation last month
Dave & Buster’s has announced that Doctor Doom will be taking over the restaurant/arcade franchise. Doom & Buster’s will celebrate the upcoming release of Avengers: Doomsday with a limited time takeover.
With attendance of 151,000, this year's NYCC is now the biggest reported North American comics convention, surpassing the San Diego Comic Con's 130,000. According to show runner Lance Fensterman, the increase of 20,000 from last year was due to selling tickets for a full day Thursday, which was previously a half-day "pro day.
I'm told neither number includes pros and exhibitors and 'industry support" however, so the exact number of numb and yet enthused people wandering the halls of either Comic-Con has not been released. Given the number of lookie-loos who hang around in San Diego, that event would still seem to be the biggest.
Many people wondered how NYCC could be bigger than SDCC when the Javits Center is smaller than the San Diego Convention Center. I'm sure Torsten can give us the exact dimensions, but on most lists I've ever seen, the Javits is actually larger than SD Convetion Center. This stat is misleading however.
by Zachary Clemente
On the extremely busy Saturday of this past weekend's New York Comic-Con, I had the sublime honor of interviewing Frank Quitely (pen name...
The NC Comicon will be held this year November 15-16 in Durham, NC. I've attended the last two years and to be blunt, it's a blast: a comics focused show in a great setting with lots of artists and enthusiastic fans. The show is expanding this year with more animation screenings—including the US premiere of a Kung Fa Panda short— as part of the second ComiQuest Film Fest. But there are also a ton of great comics artists including Fiona Staples, Sean Murphy, Bob Fingerman and John Paul Leon. John Barrowman provides nerdlebrity appeal. The show is run by retailer Alan Gill and artist Tommy Lee Edwards, and they put the effort in to make this a well rounded event.
Every once in a while I mention the "small companies banding together to survive in a hostile environment" strategy, and here's a perfect example. Aspen Comics, the long running company founded by the late Michael Turner, has acquired Big Dog Ink as an imprint. Both Aspen and Big Dog publish primarily periodicals, and that really is a tough business plan these days unless you have well known IP, and even then it is no cakewalk.
Writer Dustin Brady and artist Dave Bardin will adapt Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots into a junior graphic novel series, debuting from Mattel Press in Summer 2027.
Nate Cosby and Sebastián Píriz's new comic ThunderCats: Lynxana will be available with blind bag copies of the new main series' first issue from tomorrow, November 4.
During NYCC, Neckwav, the singing voice of Abby in the film, and Emmy-nominated actor/producer and talent manager and producer Rich Ting shared their thoughts and insights on the hit animated film
