Tag: SDCC

And......it's all winding down. I always get sad when I format Sunday because when the bell rings, one adventure will end, and we'll have a whole 'nother year of planning and stressing. Some good panels here though and with Hollywood gone away, mostly comics and kids comics.

Well it's been a while since we had some of these but they never get tired: comic book creator collectible cards, coming courtesy of...

Yep, it's that time of year. Comic-Con is coming! I haven't been delving into all the specifics yet but as in year's past there...

Yep, it's coming. I was twice as stressed out at this time last year, but now...maybe I'm just jaded, maybe I just know I...

Embed from Getty Images This was announced last year but no one really paid much attention to it: Conan O'Brien is once again producing his...

Yesterday Deadline got a hot tip that Comic-Con International (which puts on SDCC) and Lionsgate -- already thick as thieves over Comic-Con HQ...

The San Diego hotel room lottery, known variously as #hoteloween (by a few old timers) and #hotelpocalypse (by the current generation), took place this...

Today Disney put out the official word on the dates for their next D23 Expo in 2017. The show is slated to take place...

Looking inside some of the numbers on Comic-Con spending may reveal whether there's still hope for a convention center expansion.

Really, the entire saga of San Diego's downtown, Comic-Con and the Chargers is one of those local stories that will go on as long as one old timer is around to yap about it on Snapchat. And as long as people can dream and make architectural renderings, there will be ideas for what kind of bizarro Brandon Graham-type building to put up in beautiful downtown San Diego. Like the above rendering of a proposed stadium that looks like a bunch of nesting tables stacked up wily nilly.

This may sound peripheral to the whole "expand the SD convention center" saga, but the problems with the Chargers aging Qualcomm Stadium (built in 1967) is very much in the mix as far as local politics go. The Chargers have been begging for a new stadium for ages—apparently the one they've got is so old it doesn't even serve artisanal hot dogs.

    There is apparently a grassroots petition campaign underway in San Diego, where concerned citizens hope to get a ballot initiative that will keep Comic-Con in...