comic con Archives

Maybe that would be a better option for a number of creators… Photographs taken at, and courtesy of, Alternate Reality Comics from 2011, not at Phoenix Comic Con. Many of you read about the antics of one Joe Benitez at the Bleeding Cool Fan Awards a week ago The day after, he was rather sheepish and[...]

Thanks to Heri Mkocha for a great collection of  MCM London Cosplay photos and, for a change, taken in the bright British sunshine.  What a fantastic

Here's a batch of San Diego Comic Con exclusive items that can be pre-ordered by retailers to pick up at the show, or shipped afterwards, though the latter option may be moot if they run out, and priority will be given to retailers who are also exhibiting at the show. So… what will you do to[...]

So they've made a film about Comic Con, including all the strange and wonderful toys sold there. And now they are strange and wonderful toys sold there. Joss Whedon, Stan Lee, Harry Knowles and Morgan Spurlock HeroClix fugures, courtesy of Idle Hands. The queue for the Joss Whedon figure starts about… now Stan Lee seems to have been[...]

All at Wizard World Philadelphia this weekend. I'd forgotten about the one end right, you know...  

I asked her today after all the hustle this weekend at the Phoenix Con to talk about what she has going on and were she started from. Tell us were you are from originally? I was born in Reno but grew up in new Zealand! I used to have a little kid kiwi accent and everything :) How[...]

Yesterday, people and companies who had applied for panels at San Diego Comic Con 2012 were told if they were successful And it turns out I have quite the busy Thursday. At 10.30 am I'll join the likes of Rick Offenberger, Alan Kistler, Chris Thompson, Bryan Young, Dan Manser, Heidi MacDonald, Holly Golightly, Kiel Phegley, JC[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J59H5sSiwI The show started yesterday afternoon with a healthy turnout and a real party atmosphere that went well into the

I have no idea whose this is. But it is rather sweet. I seem to recall the Sixth Doctor managed to turn the external appearance of the TARDIS into a

Phoenix Comic Con is now open But I had a little wander around the queue ninety minute before it did open, and a peek inside the venue itself Why not join me? Phoenix Comic Con is now open But I had a little wander around the queue ninety minute before it did open, and a[...]

The day before the Phoenix Comic Con, Phoenix baseball team the Diamondbacks played the Los Angeles Dodgers, and won But also had quite a lot of cosplay action to deal with… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ [...]

Cracchiolo V writes for Bleeding Cool; The Motor City Comic Con in Novi, Michigan held its 23rd convention this weekend, and it continues to be a great convention. Ethan Van Sciver was busy drawing commissions most of the weekend, but he was pleasant as always to talk to He is working on the Green Lantern annual with[...]

  From Emir Pasanovic, Bleeding Cool's Croatian correspondent; Continuing the tradition of the past couple of years, 7th Makarska Comic Book Festival

On Wednesday I am getting up at 4am to fly to Phoenix (via Chicago) for the Phoenix Comic Con Where not only will we be launching the Bleeding Cool Magazine, but on Friday evening, hosting the Bleeding Cool Fan Awards. Voting closes tomorrow, and some of the categories are too close to call This is your[...]

While I'm at Kapow this weekend, in the US they'll be hosting the Big Wow Comic Fest. One of the highlights is the Awesome Inking Panel in which various

Yesterday was Mother’s Day, and I got my own mother a copy of Crossed. Since then she has disowned me, and called me ‘ungodly’ and ‘an accident’. Maybe

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool Long time Comicon attendee Ray Bradbury gets honored this year with the San Diego premiere of Shadow Show: All-New

If you have the We3-related password from the mailing list, you can book tickets for MorrisonCon right now. For $767. For one night. For one. For one two

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; It’s May already? Time certainly does fly when you’re discussing good comics, but passes by more slowly when

In a playbook seemingly taken from KaPow, the Grant Morrison convention, MorrisonCon, being held in Las Vegas has announced Gerard Way, Jonathan Hickman,

Walking Dead #100 comes out the same day San Diego Comic Con 2012 opens And it is so on. I've already got a Vannen Walking Dead wristwatch signed by Kirkman and Adlard It's sweet But for San Diego, they are bringing out a Walking Dead #100 Vannen Watch or $85, featuring Rick with one hand, based[...]

We're continuing to look at comic stores that are going above and beyond for Free Comic Book Day this year. On May the 5th, at Samurai Comics East in Mesa Arizona, Atomic Robo's Ryan Cody is putting on a one day comic convention, the Arizona Comic Mini Expo, or ACME, alsongside fellow comic stores Bookmans Entertainment[...]

That may be the case with for humans but as far as the chemistry between Boston and the Boston Comic Con, it's anything but. To be fair, the show should really be called "Artist Con", the big names and special guests almost entirely artists (rather than writers) The biggest names of the weekend, some of the[...]

Which makes the sprawling city-state seem an odd setting for a film and comic convention, but if the world's first Middle East Comic Con has demonstrated anything it is the particular hunger for comics, movies and all things geek in the Middle East. For those who have never visited the Arabian Gulf, Dubai's climate is best[...]

So much for the San Francisco Bay Area... Grant Morrison's MorrisonCon with Isotope Comics is happening in Las Vegas at the end of September. Grant, an

Independent publisher Jabal Entertainment have launched their first comic book, Jinnrise by Sohaib Awan and Tony Vasallo, at the first Middle East Film and Comic Con being held in Dubai, today and tomorrow.  We'll have people at the show reporting back for Bleeding Cool this weekend. International student Andrew Marcus' world is torn asunder when interstellar[...]

Matthew Diener attending C2E2 for Bleeding Cool. He wrote; Dynamite Entertainment President and Publisher Nick Barrucci led a packed panel of his bullpen

Patrick Reed writes for Bleeding Cool after returning from C2E2; C2E2 2012 was just about as low-stress and enjoyable as a convention could possibly be. 

Alex Wilson begins our C2E2 cosplay journey with a TikiStormtrooper... Taylor Ramsey writes; This year's C2E2 had a really eclectic batch of costumes

Alexander Hoffman writes for Bleeding Cool from Wizard World Toronto Comic Con. The con spectrum in Toronto has always been a little strange The Silver Snail (Toronto's most famous comic store) strictly attends FanExpo and Toronto Comic-Con (both Hobbystar conventions) The Beguiling runs TCAF (Toronto Comics Arts Festival), which is a free two day graphic novel/comic[...]