Tag: Conventions
SDCC ’14: Ronan Farrow, Chuck Nice and Lea Delaria on sexual harassment at cons???
MSNBC's Ronan Farrow got comedians Chuck Nice and Lea Dearia on his show to talk about Geeks for CONsent and their campaign to get more signage and a clearer harassment policy at the SDCC....
SDCC ’14: The Business of Geek Fashion
By Hannah Lodge
As the popularity of geek culture and comic book movies surges, retailers have seen a significant increase in the demand for stylish, tailored geek clothing. That demand is responsible for the niche...
SDCC ’14: Where is the Love? The Strange Disappearance of Romance Comics — panel...
By Matthew Jent
Friday morning, thoughts of weird love and doomed romance took over room 28 of San Diego Comic Con. Moderator Douglas Wolk was joined by author Michelle Nolan and Colleen Coover for a...
Comic Con: Beyond the Panels
By Hannah Lodge
For some, the real glamour of San Diego Comic Con lies beyond the confines of the convention center. For four days, the Gaslamp quarter is transformed into an outdoor festival, with parties,...
SDCC ’14: The year things didn’t get bigger
Although it's still overwhelming and nuts, there is a genera sense among the exhibitors, cab drivers and con vets that the massive show biz whirlwind has, if not contracted, at least stayed the same...
The Beat Podcasts! – SDCC ’14 Day 1: Eric Powell & Richard Starkings
Live from San Diego Comic Con, it's More To Come! Publishers Weekly's podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald.
In day one of...
SDCC 2014: Here’s the Actual Guest List
While we know every TV star will be at San Diego, and rafts of cartoonists, do you know who the actual GUESTS are? Here's a compressed list. It's a pretty impressive list; all special...
SDCC 2014: EGADS! Wristbands for Hall H’s First Panel of the Day!
Hall H camping at Comic-Con became a huge thing over the last five years or so, with thousands lined up all night, and for years people have been saying "Why don't they give out...
SDCC 2014: Welcome to Hell Week! And what could make it more hellish?
It's what I like to call Hell Week, boys and girls, the week before San Diego Comic-Con when every single thing has to get done, including all those things you thought of in January...
Ultimate when a con is crap: DashCon 2014 solicited people for money to pay...
This will almost certainly be the ultimate Con Disaster story for our times, as least for a year or so. DashCon held over the weekend in Schaumberg, IL, was a first year show aimed at Tumblr culture, planned as a meet-up for Tumblr users and such favorites as Welcome to Night Vale, a transmedia podcast that is sort of a Lake Woebegone for Tumblr-ites, Baker Street Babes, cartoonists such as Noelle Stevenson and…Doug Jones? You know the guy who was in Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth.
When a con is crap part one: London Film and Comic Con was crowded
As we've been reporting, as comic-cons become bigger and bigger business, more and more under qualified con-runners are getting into the biz, easing to more and more unsatisfactory convention experiences. This weekend's London Film...
SDCC ’14: Legends: The first thing you see when you land in San Diego...
So far this year's San Diego has been sounding pretty routine—no radical new venues or marketing efforts. But that was with 12 days to go. TNT just kicked it up a notch with the...