Tag: Conventions

It's here! Once again, The Beat has teamed with The Devastator magazine for the annual Indie Exhibitor Convention Mega Survey 2015. This is an in-depth look at who is exhibiting, where they are exhibiting...

Comikaze Expo puts its best foot forward for 2015.

The ongoing legal battle over the trademark of the term "comic-con" between The San Diego Comic-Con (or to give it it's official name: Comic-Con International: San Diego) and the Salt Lake Comic Con flared up a bit yesterday when the SLC group claimed a win by being granted a trademark:

Oh yeah, speaking of Comic-Con, there seem to have been an even greater than usual number of investigative reports on the show, what it means, how it works etc. I'll link to a few...

Want to know what comic-cons are really about? Get these books. In my previous post I talked about the importance of community -- it is central to proper understanding of ethics, and as such it...

This has been alluded to over the last few days on social media, but the Houston Press sums up charges against Anime Matsuri head John Leigh, who, from multiple accounts, seems to be a...

EventBrite, the ticketing agency, caused a lot of talk last year when they released the results of the first survey of convention attendees with breakdowns on gender, spending and more. They've done another survey this...

While I was poking around the internet for the history of Marriott Hall the other day, I chanced upon some photos of San Diego in the 80s taken during and just after the construction of the Marriott Marquis and Marina. The first photo is prior to the hotel's completion in 1987. I'm not enough of an expert in San Diego history to know the history of the marina, but as you can see, it bears very little resemblance to the glitzy high rise neighborhood of today. There's no convention center, no Hyatt, no Embassy Suites, no Petco PArk, no Omni...nothing really.

A trip to Comic-Con with a good hotel room, two passes, dinner with the Suicide Girls and VIP access to a special burlesque show -- sounds like a good deal. How much would...

Life as we know it is going back to normal next year as the dates for SDCC '16 have been revealed and it's back to the normal third week dates of July 21-14....

For those who don't like to be surprised about what they'll find when they arrive at San Diego for the five day time slip known as Comic-Con, a plethora of information on what you'll see and find is already out there. SPOILERS ahoy, but forewarned is forearmed. As you may have noticed, the San Diego Public LIbrary is now a hotspot of comics-related events. I understand there'll be a whole slate of industry themed programing taking place there, but for early birds who get in Tuesday (an increasing number of people) the whole show kicks off with an Evening with Raina Telgemeier:

My second dip into the HeroesCon pool saw that my thoughts regarding today's possible increased attendance did indeed come to fruition, as the crowds around me intensified fairly significantly from the day previous. The pre-registration...