Tag: Conventions
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 6/2/15: Second Avenue Caper wins a Lammy
§ The Lammy Awards were presented last night, aka the Lambda Literary Awards, which honor LGBTQ literature in many categories from lesbian romance to transgender fiction. The Graphic novel nominees were:
100 Crushes by...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 6/1/15: Do not movie Comic-Con to Las Vegas!
Wow last week was as arduous as Comic-Con, between Book Expo and BookCon...but I survived, and I never bought any food at the Javits! Okay, I did buy some Pinkberry on Friday afternoon because...
Denver Comic Con had 16 panels on Women—including one that was a flash mob
Denver Comic Con is a bit of a puzzler. It's a huge, fast growing show that entertains many people, but it's also had a lot of problems with crowding, ownership and some eye-rolling over...
SDCC ’15: Nerd HQ teams with IGN and the SD Childern’s Museum
Doubtless spurred by my relentless questioning of their existence, yesterday it was announced that Nerd HQ would be returning to Comic-Con this time merging with IGN and with a new venue, the...
You can still get a ticket for New York Comic Con…and not on Stub...
As reported the other day, ticket sales for New York Comic Con started at noon on Wednesday and ended in agony for most of the aspirants, who spent hours waiting for screens to...
All 70 2015 San Diego Comic-Con guests are revealed
Comic-Con International: San Diego has announced their fourteenth and final wave of Comic-con guests:
On the Scene with Smaller Cons—Wizard World and Big Wow
by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson
Comic con season is upon us. It’s time for lining up, hoping to get that autograph and waiting to get into that must see panel. If it’s a murder of crows and...
C2E2 attendance continues to grow
ICv2 has a definitive business round-up of C2E2, the Chicago based show that just wrapped it's sixth year. And it's still growing:
Here’s a giant interactive map of 200 comics events around the world
Planning to visit a con, or set up? You can map your world tour with this resource. Biserka Stringer-Horne has just created a massive interactive map of more than 200 comics conventions in...
Booth removed from Calgary Expo after members derail panels
A new and potentially awful chapter in Con Wars opened up today.
The Honey Badgers are the ladies auxiliary of the MRA (Men's Rights Advocates) groups, and MRA groups are largely affiliated with GamerGate, the endlessly annoying group that has been fighting diversity behind a shield of anti-censorship for the last since last summer. And sadly this warzone—mostly held on social media until now—just got dragged into the real world of the Calgary Expo.
Stan Lee pacts with Steve Wozniak for the Silicon Valley Comic Con
Huh, what was I just saying? 10 minutes ago? It seems that Stan Lee has pacted yet again, this time for Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley free spirit to starts something that is...
Comic-Con International and Lionsgate team for new nerd-focused VOD service
WonderCon isn't the only part of the CCI empire that's going "Hollywood." CCI has just signed a deal with Lionsgate for a new subscription video-on-demand service that will launch later this year.
Lionsgate—the studio...
