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San Diego Comic Con is a month away Which is time for everyone at Bleeding Cool Towers to start getting very excited indeed! Now, it's natural for news reporting services to get distracted by the big splashy movie, TV and games contingents and forget the comics side, or just see the big splashy publisher panels[...]

SanDiegoWatch: An exclusive Clockwork Orange 12 inch statue for San Diego Comic Con from Retro Outlaw, detailed painted and bronze Because it's not creepy at all to have a statue of a rapist in your house. RianHughesWatch: Eight 2000AD short stories by Rian Hughes will be collected in a new volume, Tales from Beyond Science, written[...]

Picture the scene. The sun is setting across San Diego Harbour Bay. The crickets are sounding, the hotel sprinklers and sprinkling, the cosplayers are

Booth 616. While over at Wizard World Comic Con Philadelphia, Mike Wolfer will be running the show at Booth 601 With four VIP sets; Avatar With Ticket, $150 for a $500 of ultra-rare Avatar comics, with a special signing with Mike Wolfer Five premium Freakangels Art Prints, five Night of the Living Dead Art Prints,[...]

This Harley Quinn USB flash drive from Mimoco will only be sold at their booth (#4938) at the San Diego Comic Con this year, the design taken from the Batman: Arkham City game Only 800 have been made. This Harley Quinn USB flash drive from Mimoco will only be sold at their booth (#4938) at[...]

More swag for you to start planning to line up for at San Diego Comic Con In fact you might as well start now How else will you flip this lot on eBay, hmmm? DOLLHOUSE EPITAPHS #1 2011 SDCC VERSION Exclusive original cover! Retailer Bonus: 1 in every 5 copy that is picked up at the SDCC[...]

DeviantART is a long standing website that offers artists the shance to show their work in a social network, get work, sell work, and in many cases earn a living. So can you think of a better sponsor for Artists Alley at San Diego Comic Con this year? Providing support for artists there, including screens, connections,[...]

So I took the kids to Comic Con They loved having photos taken "with princesses", they drew on the Artist tables and they charmed convention organisers into giving them Japanese sweets My girls. Other highlights; Seeing Warren Ellis in the pub as men dressed as Alien xenomorphs walked by, and watching as he didn't even flinch anymore. People[...]

BBC3's The Fades was previewed for the first time at the MCM Expo London today. The footage shown involved ghosty things, old men, sexy women, yoots,

Dave Gibbons speech for accepting the Eagle Award Roll Of Honour 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuDx3lxe3ew Held at the MCM London Expo, one of the

Just bring photo ID with you. Seriously, Rufus Dayglo? Give this a go… Markosia will no longer have a table there, as they lost the table discounts available to other publishers, after getting involved with the London Super Comic Convention. Frank Quitely and Warren Ellis are the star comic book creators at MCM London Expo[...]

AlcoholWatch: This is the San Diego Superhero Cosplay Pub Crawl for Comic Con this year… You realise it'll just be men going, right? GlitchWatch: Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus – Volume 1 – listed by Marvel as $125, by Amazon at $100 and now discounted down to $63… MadMenWatch: Looks like X-Men First Class isn't the only superhero[...]

We've already had one Comic Con War in London this year, what with Kapow and MCM London Expo blasting each other in the spring with rather pointed press releases and comments. Kapow PR, often via Mark Millar, deliberately ignored MCM, as if it didn't exist, proclaiming a uniqueness for Kapow over a number of attributes that[...]

Bleeding Cool reported way back that there was a puzzle in the pages of Image comics series 27 that, if solved, would win the clever guy or gal a free return flight to the Comic Con of your choice on your continent, or a major contribution towards a flight further afield. And while author Charles Soule[...]

This is an artist's impression of what William Christensen may be planning for San Diego Comic Con 2011 Keeping Garth Ennis at the Avatar booth in a cage And supplying the odd Guinness to keep him pacified. Oh, okay, possibly not quite But Garth will be at San Diego, courtesy of Avatar The only place he'll[...]

Just arrived in the post. Waiting for me when I came back from the comic shop. That's good service. I'll have a couple of spare for San Diegoi for anyone

There has been criticism of late over the San Diego Comic Con, reflected in The Cleveland Show last night, that it has become less about comic books and more about Hollywood's marketing machine. It's an attitude that I've generally dismissed I believe that San Diego Comic Con is what you make it, there is so much available[...]

"Imagine a hundred thousand unwashed comic books fans in costume shoehorned into a musty convention centre that smells like ass and corn chips all waitig in line to see in three minutes of something the rest of the world will have to wait two weeks to see" Here's a combination shot from last night's The Cleveland[...]

The publication of the Bosnian-based comic publisher PrintMedia's preview of Strip Magazine has had its debut at the Bristol International Comic Expo

His visits to San Diego Comic Con have been fleeting, flying in, a panel, a signing, then flying out again He's a busy man. Even in the British Isles, he's not seen at Bristol, not at Birmigham, not at Thought Bubble in Leeds or in Dublin He didn't even appear at the more local Kapow a[...]

Look for people on his books like Julian McMahon, Ken Watanabe, Chris Hemsworth, Cobie Smulders and Yeardley Smith to start appearing at Wizard World events. But for now, here's a look at the programming for the upcoming Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con at Penn Plaza Pavilion in Manhattan on MAy the 21st and 22nd ,[...]

And then sees that person suddenly sell it for multiple times the price they paid on eBay. On the Adam Hughes Yahoo group, the artist's partner (and artist in her own right) Alison Sohn posted, having returned from the Boston Comic Con; Thank the piece of shit that moaned and practically wept about needing his Wonder Woman[...]

But it has been replaced by its twin brother (or possibly sister), the Birmingham Comicon, organised by, basically, the same people who organised BICS. How peculiar. The spin given to the Birmingham Mail is that with the usual Think Tank venue unavailable, they couldn't find a suitable or sizeable equivalent in the whole country, not even the[...]

Comics Launch Pad is a very different kind of comic convention While usually comic book professionals attend conventions for free, at Launch Pad they pay – but they are the only ones allowed to attend. It's a convention for comic book professionals or aspiring professionals, with talks, seminars, demonstrations and workshops in Birmingham, England. Keynote speakers will[...]

They're hosting an Artists Alley. Usually reserved for the comic convention, this involves a series of tables, each with an artist showing their work, sketching, signing, talking, networking, taking commissions, selling prints and ashcans full of their work Or, in Rob Granito's case, other people's work. Well, as the graphic novel has grown in stature at every[...]

Everyone knows that sex sells, but when you're standing on the floor of a convention brimming with genius IQs and let's face it, a shitload of expertise on all things comic-related, is it possible that there are more effective marketing approaches that tap into the intellectual space of your mind more fully than just a[...]

In fact there's a certain image I;m trying to track down right now… I seemed to have joined the consensus that this wasn't a mini-San Diego in any way shape or form, but instead a really good London comic con that punched well above its weight and gave people warm feelings of early Bristols or UKCACs[...]

Here are the nominees, see you all at San Diego Comic Con for the awards! Best Short Story "Bart on the Fourth of July," by Peter Kuper, in Bart Simpson #54 (Bongo) "Batman, in Trick for the Scarecrow," by Billy Tucci, in DCU Halloween Special 2010 (DC) "Cinderella," by Nick Spencer and Rodin Esquejo, in Fractured Fables (Silverline Books/Image) "Hamburgers[...]

But with Kapow continuing to claim that it's bringing San Diego Comic Con to London, while MCM thinks that's what they'd been doing the past few years, expect more of this. MCM London announced their best ever ticket sales so far of 15,000 two months away from the show, against KaPow's 11,000 – and note that[...]

Clicky for biggy. So I'll be at table 86, feel free to pop by and say hi, or just grab me as I run past. Bleeding Cool's Brendon Connelly will also be