Tag: Conventions

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 anniversary edition of the Long Beach Horror & Comic Con....

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. The 2014 show will be held April 18, 19,...

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 just passed this 2013 calendar year and was better than...

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, where a relatively inaccessible downtown convention center and the generally...

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 year, has a policy of announcing their guests in waves....

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. The Lakes International Comic Art Festival fully embraced a European...

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 registration has opened. There are quite a few changes this...

I'll be a guest at next week's Detroit FanFare con in Dearborn, and I'm happy to say that in advance of the event they have posted a Harassment Policy. More and more cons are...

While stock is still being taken of the record crowd at this year's New York Comic-Con—a crowd by and large peaceful and fun loving, and if my eyeball guess was right, perhaps 50%...