Tag: Conventions

If you've noticed that this year it's been even tougher than usual to get a badge to New York Comic Con, you were't just...

By Carolina Cooney After having to cancel their original mid-April date due to the Boston Marathon bombing, Boston Comic Con was back this past weekend...

As the comics live event business diverges into Cons and CAFs (comic arts festivals), both seem to be thriving. In 2013 Fort Wayne got...

Okay we don't run too many contests here at The Beat, but when the prize is as awesome as this—a piece of original art created for you by Neal Adams—it is something we can't pass up offering Beat readers a shot at.

Last weekend also saw the Manchester Comic-Con take place over here in the UK, a one-day event last Saturday. And again, public demand for...

Following the news earlier this year that the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival is now no more, it appears a new festival has just...

by Bruce Lidl   If nobody cares about DRM on digital comics, why does everybody keep bringing it up? San Diego 2013 was unquestionably a triumph for...

So we move on from SDCC, and towards even brighter things. Thought Bubble has quickly established itself as one of the best conventions in...

By Carolina Cooney Arriving Tuesday as an exhibitor gives one a special portal into the magical world known as Comic-Con. Having been a show exhibitor...

Looking for an autograph from Brian K. Vaughan, Amy Reeder or Jimmie Robinson? I certainly am. But as I'm not at SDCC, you'll have...

Author Nancy Collins has been relentless in publicizing the connection between Dragon-Con and Ed Kramer -- in fact it's undoubtedly due to her efforts...

I had no idea what to expect as I approached the Wizard World Comic Con NYC Experience last Friday evening. First off it was located a new venue—Basketball City—in a part of Manhattan that I had never been to except on an FDR Drive flyover: a mysterious realm east of Chinatown, north of the Seaport and south of the Williamsburg Bridge. In local speak we call it "no mans land": the moody banks of the East River.