Tag: Conventions

Yep, it's convention season again! And over in New Delhi the 4th Annual Indian Comics Convention, one of the shows organized by Comic Con India, just wrapped up, with, as the PR said: • Kids and...

ReedPop, the company that puts on New York Comic-Con, C2E2 and so on, has been hinting at international expansion for a while now and now it's confirmed that they are partnering with Oz Comic...

If you are open to working in Norwalk, CT, ReedPOP, the branch of Reed Exhibitions that runs New York Comic Con, C2E2, Star Wars Celebrations and the PAX shows, among others, has a couple...

Here's a little round-up of San DIego's two mayoral candidates, running to fill the seat left vacant when serial groper/haarasser Bob Filner got the boot. Both support the convention center expansion but lawsuits may...

That's right the first ever lottery style exhibitor application process is underway— a mad dash for table space at the one of the exceedingly few premiere indie shows that is not entirely curated. But...

Speaking of anxiety dreams, Comic-Con International has announced the their first 20 guests. ta da! And they are: Amanda Conner, artist, Power Girl, Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre Brian Crane, cartoonist, Pickles Eleanor Davis, cartoonist/illustrator, Stinky, How to...

When I first read MariNaomi's story of the guy who was sexually harassing on that panel, I thought he was an asshole and should be outed. And then I thought, gee I wonder if...

While 2013's plum pudding is yet to be fully digested, the menu for 2014's comics events highlights is being set. And here to light the first burners is TCAF with it's first guest...

The Stumptown Comics Festival , Portland's long running indie comics show, is ending in its present form, but the Awards and its indie-focused programming will become part of the Rose City Comic-Con, which is...

WOW. This is truly groundbreaking information. Mirthful culture Magazine The Devastator recently ran a poll asking exhibitors at various comics shows—from San Diego to SPX—how much money they made, where they exhibited and many other things. The results have been put into a fascinating infographic which we've only excerpted below. Go to the link to see ALL the info, including which shows made the most money, which are in decline and so on.

I had a brief chat with San Diego Comic-Con's David Glanzer about WonderCon staying in Anaheim for another year for for PW, and talks are ongoing about heading back north: While the construction is over,...

This gallery of photos from a 1980’s SF Convention has been floating around for a while, but it just crossed my timestream. While all convention photos from every era share a few things—gaudy hotel carpet backgrounds, at least one ill at ease looking guy with a pencil mustache, women with flaming red hair—this one does prove a few things. Although they didn't call it "cosplay" back then —I believe the term was costuming—obviously people liked dressing just as scantily.