Tag: Conventions

We couldn't make it to HeroesCon this weekend, but it sounds like everyone else did -- our reporters on the floor say the show is packed and word on the streets is that tickets presale was up significantly. Guests include everyone from Stan Lee to Babs Tarr and the show blog has all the updates and exclusive goodies. Follow our @comicsbeatlive in Twitter for buzz from the floor and hot scoops, and @comicsbeat on Instagram for pictures. Our Davey Nieves has been slaying it with the E3 visuals but there's more to come as always. Kyle, Hannah and Harper are all at HeroesCon so if you see them say hi and give them some news!

Two weeks out from Comic-Con (that's next week) is generally what we call "Hell Week" as all the details get locked down, programming goes out, meetings get set, dinners take shape and so on. But we're beginning to get a picture of what's new this year. And one thing that wont be new is selfie sticks on the con floor. The Con has updated its Tech rules to keep pace with the times, and selfie sticks, live streaming from panels, e-cigs and more are all prohibited:

Saskatoon Blitz is an anime/cosplay focused event that has been running for a few years with a good reputation, so this isn't a first year show meltdown, but they do seem to have had some real organizational problems this time out. Several exhibitors had problems with staff over tables in artists alley being first come, first served (what?) and then confusion over the show's hours led to a dispute that ended with an exhibitor being escorted from the show. And just to make it totally gross, on a private message board for the event, staffers started making horrible rape jokes about the exhibitor who complained. Not cool.

This weekend there's plenty of comics activity around NYC. Many will be interested in FlameCon, the first ever queen comic-con in NYC, to be held at the Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn.... but I...

As we reported the other day, the art sharing site/social network DeviantArt pulled out of sponsoring Artists' Alley at the Sn Diego Comic-Con this year. While the con folks are looking for a new...

With all the comic cons and comic arts festivals going on, creators and exhibitors are becoming increasingly picky about what shows they go to. A lot of it is scheduling, but more and more what makes a good show is whether it's profitable or not. You may recall the the Devastator and The Beat did a survey to get an idea of how and how much money people are making at shows. And of course there have been various arguments over whether cosplay, celebrities or hot dogs on a stick have more effect on poor sales at shows.

UPDATE: DeviantArt's Advisor in Chief Josh Wattles has issues a statement on the matter here, stating that the company has a busy schedule and could not devote the time to AA this year. Yesterday the folks...

As posted by Torsten earlier, the floor map for SDCC is up....OMG IT'S SO SOON. Seriously I barely got my seedlings for Arbor day and we're planning Hall H already? You can compare the floor map to one from 2011 in this post. I never throw out a pdf! Pretty much the same.

If Special Edition: NYC was a comic book, probably Warren Ellis would have written it and Brandon Graham or Geof Darrow would have drawn it. It was a perfectly fine show, with a great guest list and good time, but the venue, Pier 92, was...picturesque. I was last there five or six years ago for a Wizard show and in the intervening years it became even more decrepit, with plastic bags collecting yellowing rainwater, as giant air ducts throbbed like the Alien Queen's thorax, and damn river air curled pages and hair. I had a perfectly good time (I was only there on Saturday) and here are the pictures!

The Special Edition website can be a little hard to navigate in terms of panels so better late than never here's a COMPLETE text listing of the panels in easy to read format. See...

Torsten has the all stops out pedal to metal preview of SE: NYC but a reminder that tickets for NYCC will be on sale there, INCLUDING tickets that were reclaimed from scalpers after the...

Last Saturday, I headed to the NYC Javits Center to spend a day at BookCon 2015, part of a five day publishing industry extravaganza.  While I consider myself a convention veteran, having attended New...