Tag: Conventions
SDCC ’17: President Brains, Nanobots, and Nuclear War Comedically Combine in Rob Kutner’s “SHRINKAGE!”
In 2015, veteran comedy writer Rob Kutner (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Conan) launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Shrinkage, a phantasmagorical burlesque...
Convention news: BLERD City takes over NYC on July 29-30
Not making it to Comic Con this week? Don’t sweat it. On July 29 & 30, the Big Apple will transform into BLERD...
Marvel goes all in at D23 with MCU, TV, Gaming, and more.
This year the festival of all things Disney, D23 , happens the weekend before SDCC. From July 14-16 at the Anaheim Convention Center, fans will...
Phoenix Comicon 2017 was different and here’s how
Okay… so it’s about a week since Phoenix Comicon, and I’ve still been trying to grapple with the weird sheen that seemed to take...
NO SPANDEX SATURDAY: IndieCade announces 2017 festival dates and a new location
In a week filled with the ups of Destiny 2 announcements and the lows of losing a music scene legend, we take a step...
ACE Atomic Crushes First COMIC CON REVOLUTION in Southern California
Atomic Crush Events may have found the last gold mine of Southern California as its inaugural Comic Con Revolution event this past weekend in Ontario...
NO SPANDEX SATURDAY: GeekChic Promotions on the power of content in a convention.
So in our last discussion about convention programming, we talked about how to better your panel proposals and the harsh things coordinators for conventions...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 5/10/17: Who fired what now?
§ This column has been absent for the usual reasons, a big deadline on an outside project, travel and the fact that running this...
Comic-Con Vendor Reviews: Motor City Nightmare 2017
By MiniWorld
A little behind here, (3 shows to be exact) so it will be a few days before I'm caught up.
Motor City Nightmares is...
Man charged with using comic cons to lure teen girls for sex
A Maryland man was arrested in Utah after allegedly using comic con and pop culture events as a means to meet teen girls and lure them into sex.
Derrick...
Paperfilms crew announces spring convention schedule and website sale
What is Paperfilms? It's not really a studio, but not just a loose confederation either. It consists of Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Justin Gray, Paul Mounts,...
NO SPANDEX SATURDAY: Have you thought about pitching panels for conventions?
So there's a few different topics I want to get to in the coming weeks: best punk bands, my apology to the Nintendo Switch,...
