Tag: Conventions

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...

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.

While for some thoughts are turning to Thought Bubble in Leeds or the Miami Book Fair, ou on the west coast, it's the fifht...

You'd think with New York Comic-Con over, I'd be settling down to the Halloween festivities and on to the holidays...but noooooo. Through a series of odd circumstances, I'll actually be at three shows in five weeks!

After two successful years in Anaheim, WonderCon is staying there for the third year in a row, as revealed on the show's official page....

I'm so glad Tuscon Comic-Con was success. Maybe I'm biased and I'm proud of the Old Pueblo (Google it). The sixth annual comic con...

Even as comic-con fever sweeps the nation, a few areas remain problematic, and of them all the most problematic has traditionally been Los Angeles,...

London Super Comic-Con, which started big with Stan Lee in 2012 and managed to keep the energy up (and improve as an event) this...

Detroit FanFare, which was held this past weekend, was the first show this year that I spent mostly behind a table, being a dutiful guest of the show. It was a welcome change from the usual running around and helping Ben McCool work his table meant I got to see comic-con culture from a new viewpoint. And I learned some things.

Last weekend I headed south for Kendal, a bustling town in the beautiful Lake District of England for a comics festival with a difference....

Even if you're not at the Detroit Fanfare there is plenty to do around the world in comics this weekend!

It is never too soon to fret about San Diego Comic-Con! We've already had badge PRE-REGISTRATION, Film Festival registration, professional registration, and now press...