Tag: Conventions

Kick off New York Comic Con in style with the Liberty bash, co-sponsored by the CBLDF, Image Comics and The Beat! It's shaping up to be THE don't miss social event of the show for reals. All are welcome but a $10 donation gets you a gift bag, and $30 gets you an OPEN BAR wristband! Details below:

While we haven't been too wild about software that delivers an ongoing RSS feed of your movements, when we were approached to look at the new location based social networking platform Maphook, we were more intrigued. Instead of just telling the world where you are and what you are doing, users collaborate to create a "story" about an event using "hooks" -- tweets, photos, posts, scores, Wikipedia entries, factoids and so on. It's sort of localized social networking combined with journaling, which is why we like it. Instead of having to go all over the place and search for info, it's archived in one spot.

While everyone we know is in a tizzy getting ready for New York Comic Con -- and the certain to be epic drinking fest surrounding NYCC -- the Wizard Big Apple Comic-Con was held this weekend, and nobody really noticed. You may recall that there was outrage and anxiety last year when Wizard announced it would hold the show the very same weekend as New York Comic Con. However, in the spring it was announced the Wizard show would move to the week ahead of NYCC, and also change venues from the huge Pier 94 facility to the much smaller Penn Plaza Pavilion, traditional site of the Big Apple Con.

Here it is!. A ton of comics, manga, anime and TV programming. UPDATE: We've been provided with a text file so you can see who and what is on each panel. Over 300 panels, and surely the most extensive anime/manga program ever in NYC...and the comics aren't bad either. A lot to look at but we've already marked this one down:

How many conventions can one comics-crazy town hold? We're about to find out as the dates for KING CON in Brooklyn have just been announced: November 4-7 at the Brooklyn Lyceum. That's three weeks after the New York Comic-Con, and four weeks before the next Brooklyn Comics Arts Festival. And the show is expanding to four days from two this year. X-MEn writer Chris Claremont has just been announced as the Guest of Honor.

The gang is all here, and it's awesome. Old skool comics as they are made and loved. Julia Wertz reading at SPXplosion at Atomic Books. Great store. Since last year, they also opened a section...

We've just posted the info on the upcoming Jet City Comic Show, which takes place September 25th in Seattle at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. It's a new one-day show with a nice guest lineup:

Portland's Stumptown Comics Fest, an increasingly popular stop on the indie comics festival circuit, is moving to the Oregon Convention Center, a bigger venue that will allow for growth. it has been announced. Initial...

Sounds like CCI: San Diego isn't the only comics show having some growing pains: There were HUGE lines and crowds at this weekend's FanExpo in Toronto, according to the CBC: Even though they had already...

If you were following our live tweets of the Harveys last night, (and those from ComixMix and JahFurry) you saw portions of Mark Waid's keynote speech transcribed. While claiming it was a "vodka-fueled rant," Waid delivered a heartfelt, if off-the-cuff, talk on the importance of the idea and the supremacy of comics as a medium of ideas. He started off with remarks on the history of copyright, stating it was a means to allow ideas to go into the public domain where they could remain powerful. "No one would say we'd be better off if Shakespeare plays weren't allowed to be read and performed in high schools," he used as an example. While not advocating piracy, his main argument seemed to be that it's already done, the genie is out of the bottle, and struggling to keep ideas protected isn't as important as finding a way to profit from those ideas.

The rest of Harvey night was a little bit crazy. The night was set up for triumph -- after the taxing San Diego party circuit, everyone was looking forward to just sitting down and...

In a world gone mad, there are still a few things you can count on, and comics at Baltimore Comic-Con is one of them. We got in last night for our annual dinner at the Rusty Scupper, this time with a bunch of Brooklyn compadres -- why do we have to drive four hours to see people who live a few miles away? Oh well, it's Con World.