Tag: Conventions
Macaluso resigns, Maata and Kessler take over at Wizard World
John Macaluso has resigned as CEO, President board member of Wizard World (WIZD), proffering his resignation last week after four years running the company and serving as the public face of Wizard.
John...
The truth about that “$10,000 VIP room” at a comic con is actually pretty...
The other day I ran a story about a guy named Jonathon Wall who is being charged with a felony in Utah for trying to use his Federal ID to get into what was claimed to be a "$10,000 VIP room" at the Salt Lake City Comic Con.
Something about that didn't set right with me.
Kick Watch: Comic Book Convention Survival Guide tell you absolutely everything about going to...
I received a nice note asking me to promote this Kickstarter for aComic Book Convention Survival Guide by Kyle Rose and Matthew Bernard.
The Comic Book Convention Survival Guide combines years of convention expertise...
The case of the $10,000 comic con VIP room
Wow, this story has it all. Unattainable glamour, a desperate scheme, legal drama. And a mystery I can't answer.
And now it’s Badge-o-ween for pros at New York Comic-Con
If you thought getting a hotel room for SDCC was bad, just try getting a pro badge for NYCC. Registration is open until Friday, April 29, 2016 at 11:59 AM EDT and pros will...
San Diego Comic-Con #hoteloween 2016: the terror of the random
The San Diego hotel room lottery, known variously as #hoteloween (by a few old timers) and #hotelpocalypse (by the current generation), took place this morning and it was a terrifying new version that found...
C2E2: Viz Media Announces Amano, Miyazaki, and New Streaming Line-up
Viz media announces new Yoshitaka Amano and Hayao Miyazaki art books, in addition to picking up Terra Formars and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure for their streaming collection.
Tolja! WonderCon cracking down on copyright violators
The great unsanctioned print crackdown we predicted a few weeks ago may be roaring down the highway. The following letter has been sent to exhibitors and Artist Alley tablers for next week's WonderCon:
Dear xxxx,
WonderCon...
The basics of tabling at conventions: #3 is something most people don’t know
With convention season swinging in high gear with C2E2 this weekend, followed by WonderCon, MoCCA and ECCC, let's review a little bit of convention exhibiting basics, shall we. With the flood of smaller shows,...
San Diego Comic-Con still wants a contiguous convention center expansion – but is it...
Looking inside some of the numbers on Comic-Con spending may reveal whether there's still hope for a convention center expansion.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 2/29/16: San Diego conventer center CONspiracy theory
§ Mark Fiore won this year's Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Already a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Fiore is the first to win for creating video content which run on the the...
French publishers threaten to start their own festival as Minister of Culture agrees to...
L'Affaire de Angoulême continues and will not stop. As we reported yesterday, 40 French publishers — basically all the important players in France— have said they will boycott the 2017 festival if changes are...
