Tag: Conventions

As reported last week, the incarceration and legal maneuvering of accused sex offender and Drgon*Con founder Ed Kramer has led more people, including professionals, to call for a boycott of the con while Keamer is receiving money for it. Tony Isabella, who attended the con far in the past, still has what might be termed a vivid account of it:

This weekend sees the first-ever Oxford Children Comics Festival, held on Saturday 4th. I'll be heading over meself, and there promises to be heaps...

Spekaing of sellouts, this weekend's Calgary Expo, which boasts a huge media and comics guest list of everyone from Stan Lee to Norman Reedus,...

@briansteez has informed me that #NYCC 4 day tickets are now sold out.Look for 3 days on sale soon....— lfensterman (@lfensterman) April 25, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Meanwhile,...

For the last few days Image has been releasing ambiguous teasers of this kind. Here at his lunch presentation at the 2013 Diamond Retailer summit, Image publisher Eric Stephenson revealed that it refers to a big media event to be held on that date in San Francisco. Robert Kirkman and Ed Brubaker will be there along with many "special guests." Admission will be charged but the event is free for retailers or press.

If social media is any indication, the amount of excitement over this year's C2E2—the big ReedPOP comics/entertainment expo in Chicago—is quite high. After a...

by LTZ -- There was some unpleasantness in Boston this week -- you might have heard. Friday afternoon, mere hours before the FBI and police captured suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Hynes Convention Center sent word down: Boston Comic Con was off. It was an everyone-loses situation: the con organizers are almost certainly out a lot of money for nothing, the guests are out potential income (especially those who were taking a weekend off from steady gigs), the fans are out their con experience, the cosplayers are out their costume contest, and the retailers were out a big source of revenue. This was such an eleventh-hour move by the Hynes that the retailers had their merch packed up and ready to go, just waiting for the all-clear to start hauling it into the convention center.

Warning: watching this video is likely to cause your blood pressure to rise.

Are you in London? Your weekend just got planned! Comica Comket starts on Friday, hosting comic creators including Frazer Irving, Julia Scheele, Brian Bolland,...

In non-Saga related news, the number of conventions in the UK continues to rise with smaller events around the country becoming even bigger and...

Almost as soon as I walked into MoCCA on Saturday, the first bits of news I got were show-related. Cliff Galbraith of the much...

The secrets of Stan Lee's hair and other tidbits from comics history at the just concluded Asbury Park Comicon.