comic con Archives

I had the distinct pleasure to sit down and talk to her at Baltimore Comic Con a couple of weeks ago Below is our chat. In the 1970s there were a very small number of women writing comics Between now and then, how do you feel the representation of women in the comics industry has changed?[...]

The cover to the first Danger Academy, out in December 2011 from Kickstart Entertainment, as seen at the Birmingham Comics Con today. The Gloom, also by Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood will be published by Arcana in early 2012… Also, Mark Millar didn't make it to Birmingham Comic Con because he had the flu, which also[...]

David Doub writes for Bleeding Cool; First let me give you some perspective on where I am coming from in my comparisons of Wizard World Chicago and the Baltimore Comic Con Dusk Comics is a small indy press out of Dallas Texas Our main focus is on horror but we have everything to Malaysian manga[...]

Joshua Lazarus writes for Bleeding Cool; Fans gathered at the Baltimore Convention Center at Maryland's Inner Harbor this year to celebrate the 12th annual Baltimore Comic Con. For me, it's my fourth year in attendance, and this convention in particular holds a special place in my heart It was four years ago that I was attending a[...]

The London Super Comic Convention is a new London-based comic book convention set for February 2012, using the same location at the biannual MCM, the ExCel Centre in the East End of London. The organisers are a mysterious lot, the most I could find out was through the website being registered to a doctor operating in[...]

Follow him at @JoshuaLazarus It was Sunday at the Baltimore Comic Con, and even the awful weather couldn't keep thousands of fans away from the Baltimore Convention Center. Sunday has long been the day of the convention where Marvel and DC host their more open, discussion-based panels This year, due to Marvel's absence, the attention was all[...]

Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool; With the drama* of the previous year behind them, a room full of impressively talented comic professionals gathered at the Baltimore Comic Con last night to present the 2011 Harvey Awards. For those not familiar, the Harveys (named after comics legend Harvey Kurtzman, founder of MAD Magazine) are the Tony Awards[...]

Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool; One of the most interesting stories San Diego Comic Con this year was that of the "Batgirl of San Diego" – a Stephanie Brown Batgirl cosplayer who grilled DC executives at panel-after-panel about the lack of both strong female superheroes and the lack of female creators in the DC universe. The[...]

Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, have you seen this man? This is Kenneth Arron, or Kenny Aaron, or Kenny Yochelson… or whoever he is today Bleeding Cool has previously reported on his fictitious claims as to having co-founded Image Comics. He's been in and out of jail for years posing as a variety of people from a[...]

They can kill a man if you catch him off guard, but you can't stop an armored vehicle with it.) Over the last few years the media presence has expanded, becoming more of a pop culture catch-all than a comic con. Anyone who's read my articles with any frequency knows that I write almost exclusively pertinent[...]

It was one of the hotter items at this year's San Diego Comic Con The glow in the dark variant cover for Chew #19 Bleeding Cool covered it at the time And it now goes from anywhere from $24 to $50 on eBay No wonder some people tried to hoard them… But in November, I understand[...]

Here are the credits; Created by: Stan Lee and Terry Dougas Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Written by: Max Work Artwork by: Skan Srisuwan In association with POW! Entertainment Available end of 2011 What does "created" mean in this context? Anyway, expect Romeo And Juliet: The War to debut at New York Comic Con from 1821 Comics and Pow!… Two groups[...]

The website for Rick Olney's latest attempt to slither his way back into the comic industry, the remotely located Adirondack ComicFest, is continuing to

I saw this image briefly at the Retailer Presentation at San Diego Comic Con by DC Comics, but wasn't quite quick enough to capture it Thankfully DC Comics have included it in this week's comics As part of DC Nation, this reworked version of Justice League Of America #28 seems to both reference and mock[...]

Looks like Cyborg is back for this one. So... who is going?

Thanks to Jamie Colville and his mighty recording devices, we have fifteen panels from the San Diego Comic Con in audio, as well as the Eisner Awards It's just like being there if you close you eyes And queue up at the computer for an hour And have a large bag digging into your shoulder. Maggie[...]

Under the banner Comic-Con Groupies Escape Reality & Leave Others To Save Dark Economy, news network RT America ran a piece on San Diego Comic Con that questioned the entire basis of the show Noting the homeless problem in downtown San Diego, and that attendance to the show cost individuals a thousand dollars or more,[...]

At San Diego Comic Con, one thing you couldn't escape from at the DC panels was the issue of gender Thanks to one woman (known as Kyrax2 on Twitter) dressed as the Stephanie Brown Batgirl who went to all of the panels to ask question, then follow up question, then follow up question, creating a[...]

Aaron returns to A Comic Shop in Florida from San Diego Comic Con and Tri-Force Mike with plenty of San Diego swag and a chance to check through tomorrow's comics today But no store exclusive cover of Amazing Spider-Man #666, Aaron? For shame… Weekly TOP PICKS: 7.27.2011 Top Books AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #666 – DAN SLOTT! SPIDER-ISLAND! For[...]

Security at San Diego Comic Con is generally tight Lots of security guards, plenty of eyes, stealing work is hard, if not impossible. But one would have though that original artwork would be safer at, say, San Diego Zoo Apparently not. The car of Astro City artist Brent Anderson was broken into at the San Diego [...]

The queues for the Hall H opening panel at San  Diego Comic Con on Thursday… started on Monday The convention organisers put out tents, the queue grew and grew, as Twilight fans jockeyed for position and street cred to make sure they got into the panel for the upcoming film. Then when the show opened, Hall[...]

Silke Donnelly writes for Bleeding Cool. As expected, I had a great time at Comic-Con this year. And though I may have pushed myself a bit too hard over

 There were some very signficant stories — IDW had a strong slate of announcements, Legendary released some Holy Terror art from Frank Miller (and also worth noting here is that some of Image's big announcements, came pretty late in the show and thus haven't peaked yet) — which would probably have garnered substantially more interest[...]

Peter Svensson writes; Clips from future episodes were shown at the final day of Comic Con, giving glimpses of the second half of season six Stars Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, writer Toby Whitehouse and producers Piers and Beth spoke about the show to a standing room only crowd, disappointing many who couldn't make it to[...]

Event fatigue seems to be setting for Dan DiDio who is reaching manic levels on the podium right now, but he thinks people on the flor are feeling better

At San Diego Comic Con, Marvel has confirmed previous reports of a new Defenders series by Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson And while this does actually have Namor… these are not all the Defenders This is the team that goes after the "ticking clocks" of the Marvel Universe. At San Diego Comic Con, Marvel has[...]

The cover to Fear Itself #6, folks. Thor going toe to toe with a certain serpent... who of course does not have toes. After Fear Itself comes Battle

At Comic Con today, Uglies writer Scott Westerfield announced a manga adaptation of his sci-fi novel series Uglies starting in May next year Drawn by Steven Cumming, an American living in Tokyo, these will be four books of 200 pages each, and will retell the story of a world where people get extreme plastic surgery[...]

Fables has grown into DC/Vertigo's largest franchise, spinning off into series upon series, with games and TV shows also in the offing. But now all those spin-off mini-series will appear as an ongoing series-of-mini-series called Fairest, announced at the Fables panel at San Diego Comic Con A consolidation if you will An attempt at increased brand[...]

We all loves the motorbiking dog of San Diego Comic Con Well, last night outside the Omni hotel, he was back With a friend in tow… play that funky video! We all loves the motorbiking dog of San Diego Comic Con Well, last night outside the Omni hotel, he was back With a friend in[...]