comic con Archives

This weekend, while I'm signing my new comic book at Forbidden Planet (have I mentioned that at all?) Wondercon, from the people who bring you the San Diego Comic Con, is kicking off in San Francisco. Everyone will be there Marvel and DC of course, but also Avatar, Aspen, IDW, Slave Labor Graphics, Boom!, Archaia, Image,[...]

So basically I just realised I'm flying out to Chicago's C2E2 comic convention on Thursday For some reason I thought it was happening the week after No biggie. Saturday will be the big day for me, I'm on the Year Of Warren Ellis panel at 4.30pm (room 475a) and then running next door to present the[...]

The big Marvel announcement at Emerald Comic Con is that… the big announcements will be at C2E2 Where I will be Shame, it's so much easier to report on them at home with Twitter. Anyway, we co learn from WeeklyCBReview that the new arc of Thor in April will include Galactus, possibly coming to Asgard[...]

Courtesy of the Top Cow panel Emerald Comic Con and courtesy of WeeklyCBReview of the Weekly Comic Book Review tweeting away, comes the unseen original art for the cover of Architects #12… As well as  Netherworld debuting in April being compared to The Matrix and Inception, that Darkness #90-100 will be "the culmination of everything Hester[...]

Directly from the Vertigo panel at Emerald City Comic Con, Ed Kaye of Hypergeek writes for Bleeding Cool, and runs down the bullet points for discussion… Love And Rockets' Gilbert Hernandez is to draw a guest issue of iZombie. Cowboys, a graphic novel by Gary Phillips and Brian Hurtt is out in June from Vertigo Crime Darwyn Cooke[...]

1. Yes there are a number of Seattle's Real Life Superheroes present at the show. No sign of Phoenix Jones as of yet. Or at least not in costume. At least

Because I could be in the middle of this, in Seattle, waiting to get into the Emerald City Comic Con. Say I wonder if Phoenix Jones is in there somewhere? Little Bleeders don't forget to keep us informed of how it all goes down, at richjohnston@gmail.com Yeah, okay right now, I'm happy to be snuggled up[...]

Usually held in the autumn, BICS is the sister show to the Bristol Comic Con, still going ahead as planned. However, for deprived Brummies, the organisers are putting on Comics Launchpad on June 18th in Birmingham, aimed at comic creators and aspiring creators. The British International Comic Show has been cancelled for 2011, as the regular[...]

So we had the great running of the San Diego Comic Con Ticket Purchase… now it's time for the sequel, getting yourself a hotel room once you are there. The San Diego discounted rates for local hotels are for sale from 9am PT, Noon ET, 5pm GMT on March 9th At which point you can select[...]

Baltimore Comic Con has the Harveys SPX has the Ignatz Well, C2E2 has its own comic book awards, the Bleeding Cool Fan Awards To be voted on by your good selves The choices have been made by a selection of judges who wish to remain secret, but there's space to add your own choice as[...]

The spokesman for the Kapow comic convention, funded by Titan, publishers of CLiNT and owners of Forbidden Planet, and run by Millar's PA Lucy Unwin And Millar's trademark exaggeration came into play, claiming that Kapow was what London needed, a comic convention like the old UKCACs but there was nothing like it And somewhere to[...]

Bleeding Cool's Mayank Khurana has been on the floor of Comic Con India (okay, the ground, then), camera at hand, catching the cosplay and the commerce on camera at India's first comic conference. Bleeding Cool's Mayank Khurana has been on the floor of Comic Con India (okay, the ground, then), camera at hand, catching the[...]

And gameplay previews of the Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters game. And also note that supertitle, "London's Comic Con" Looks like someone's wanting to make something very clear More on that to come I think… an all new London MCM Expo website will launch tomorrow in conjunction with the title sponsorship. MCM London Expo is[...]

Okay, I think we know what many people will be queuing for at San Diego Comic Con 2011 Apart from tickets to San Diego Comic Con 2012, that is. The Revenge Of The Jedi Death Star See it here, along with everything else Hasbro has planned for the year so far… Okay, I think we know[...]

After the song… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvcL-oBXOFs[/youtube] After the mad rush… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uTQVomQIXI[/youtube] After the other song… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0y-eywao44[/youtube] …Keith Fitzgerald, VP Engineering at Ticket Leap explains just what the hell happened on Saturday when people tried (and failed) to buy tickets for San Diego Comic Con 2011. Saturday, February 5th we experienced an unprecedented level of ticket demand for the wildly popular Comic-Con International event[...]

Here's his analysis of the San Diego Comic Con Ticket Leap meltdown over the weekend… and what to do next year. Given this year's registration problems and the hotel problems of the last several years, Comic-Con needs to realize two key points: 1) Both convention and hotel registrations are effectively lotteries To a significant degree, whether you[...]

When San Diego Comic Con sold a thousand tickets online in a test last December, they received half a million hits as people tried desperately to buy tickets. Yesterday, they got thirty three million hits. And that is the reason that TicketLeap were unable to cope Despite having the ability to increase servers based on load, and[...]

And now Friday and Saturday tickets for San Diego Comic Con 2011 have officially sold out too, James Sime of Isotope Comics is giving Bleeding Cool readers who failed to get their San Diego tickets a slight glimmer of light. Your own free FailFrog button to celebrate the failure of geekness infused with technology. Just send a[...]

But now it seems, even with the faulty technology, that not only is the Four Day Ticket close to sell out (if not already sold out) but the Saturday Only ticket is now approaching that, for both adult sales and senior/military sales. So while there is understandable frustration all round, both among people trying to buy[...]

UPDATE: Get past the green screen of death and it looks like the Junior 4 Day Pass may be about to sell out… "Why don't you use a proper ticketing company" was the cry after San Diego Comic Con had failed to sell tickets for the third time, as their site kept crashing Expense was cited[...]

4AM Sydney. Tomorrow is the big day when, fourth time lucky, you can buy your ticket for San Diego Comic Con 2011. Each time, so far, has proved disasterous With far more people wanting tickets than will ever be allowed through those doors, sites have crashed, crashed and crashed again But this time they have an expensive[...]

Spend three hour working at San Diego Comic Con, and get in for the whole day, free You could be filling bags with programmes, you could engage your Napoleonic desires by commanding crowds only go the way you are pointing, you could accompany Joss Whedon for a walkthrough, you just don't know! Registration for volunteers at[...]

John Holland writes for Bleeding Cool from the floor of New Orleans Wizard World. Yesterday's report can be found here. Today started a lot slower than

I can't help it, I have an anal fixation of always being early for any event I attend.  I live about an hour outside New Orleans so I left at seven and was in the Hall a little after eight, and that's even after turning down the wrong street and having to come back around. [...]

The Amazing Arizona Comic Con on this weekend.. Pokewoman by Grant Brummett The Walking Dead panel by Matthew Noteboom. Adrian Lopez takes a shot of people wondering why they didn't decide on Batman… The Rob Liefeld/Jeph Loeb panel from organiser Jimmy Jay's point of view… And from Rob Liefeld's… It's all too much for Joe Benitez Jimmy Jay pushes his Walking Dead[...]

But it is pretty much true, isn't it? San Diego City Council President Tony Young talked to Sign On San Diego about his plans to open the San Diego Comic Con with a parade. OK So, if you want more people to come here on Wednesday and rent out their hotel room and stay a[...]

For the movie Paul, the production team recreated San Diego Comic Con in New Mexico to begin the movie At the end of San Diego 2009, a number of publishers left material behind to be picked up by the producers to be shipped across the country and assembled to make the mock up as convincing[...]

You know what San Diego? Why not issue a list of comic book creators who aren't going to Con this year? It may well be shorter. The new guest list is

The San Diego Comic Con entrance passes use a specific coded entry system on badges, scanned on entrance and repeat scanned through the show Forged tickets are hard to get away with – but not impossible. However just photocopying your own entrance badge and selling the copies on Craigslist isn't going to work Especially when you[...]

When Mark Millar announced Kapow as the first big British comic con in London since the UKCACs, people at the MCM Expo were understandable a bit narked Millar initially dismissed their show as being "anime" rather than comics – although ignoring the fact he'd been promoting Kapow with expected film content. Well, MCM are fighting back[...]