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At San Diego Comic Con, Ashley Wood will be atending… and signing his little arm off. You can pre-order Popboy Big Beautiful Book, collating Popbot volumes 1 to 8, 400 pages, in a 500 limited edition over-oversized hardcover-in-slipcase for $125, then pick it up at the show, or get it delivered. You can also pre-order Fat Tarino,[...]

Attendees at past San Diego Comic Cons have become accustomed to advertising and marketing for the show reaching them on the very keys to their hotel rooms There really is no way to escape. But this time, Warner Bros have really gone to town, getting the promotional rights on all key cards in thirty-six hotels surround[...]

On the Friday of San Diego Comic Con, the comic creator bar across the tracks that Bleeding Cool first told you about, TR!CKSTER, will be holding a tribute to the films of Akira Kurosawa as part of a benefit for Japan relief, with the Criterion Collection and Toho Co. The show will contain work by the[...]

Bleeding Cool has already told you that deviantART, the site that lets artists to showcase their work, is sponsoring Artists Alley at San Diego Comic Con this year But we haven't told you how… DeviantART will be hosting two huge display screens that will hang from the ceiling over Artists' Alley These screens will be[...]

Bleeding Cool reported a few weeks ago that it looked as if the aspiring artist website deviantART was being lined up to sponsor Artists Alley at San Diego Comic Con this year. Well, it looks like talks went well. Not only will deviantART sponsor the Artists Alley, with around two hundred comic book artists showing and selling[...]

From Marvel and Dark Horse, a thousand-copuy limited edition statue, retail price of $49.99, only sold at the San Diego Comic Con 2011, with a limit of four per customer And then flipped instantly on eBay Queues will start at booth 2615… From Marvel and Dark Horse, a thousand-copuy limited edition statue, retail price of[...]

Click here. UPDATE: "Your current position is #6893  in line." Ha. UPDATE x2: CAUSE I'VE GOT A GOLDENNN TICCCKKKETTTT! Misstjg: I got my pass to ComicCon!

Two new San Diego Comic Con Exclusive T-shirts from Diamond Comic Distributors… first a Godzilla T-shirt based on the IDW San Diego exclusive comic cover… And a Mini-Mates T-shirt based on… a Bruce Springsteen album cover. What an interesting choice… Two new San Diego Comic Con Exclusive T-shirts from Diamond Comic Distributors… first a Godzilla T-shirt[...]

Here are three exclusive editions of comics being sold by Dave Elliott at San Diego Comic Con 2011. First up there's the Heavy Metal September issue, where the creators of Imaginary Friends Studio are filling the entire issue with their creations Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau provides this wraparound cover to wrap around the actual issue, manually He'll[...]

Whatever the reason, one thousand five hundred four-day tickets for the San Diego Comic Con 2011 have been returned by their purchasers for a refund. And now, with probably a hundred thousand people wanting tickets, this many will be put on sale again. At some time. On some day. You will get an hour's notice if you follow this[...]

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY IS COMPLETE A lot of the studios have been announcing their programming for the San Diego Comic Con 2011 But one or two comic book panels are sneaking in there too Here's everything so far – add other ones you know in the comments and we'll update! Let's crowd source as much of[...]

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[...]

The sun is setting across San Diego Harbour Bay The crickets are sounding, the hotel sprinklers and sprinkling, the cosplayers are snuggling down in their sleeping bags outside Hall H And a lowly security guard prowls the halls looking for any intruders who posed as statues in the Sideshow Booth. He turns the corner to the[...]

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[...]

The San Diego Comic Con exclusives get earlier every year. In August, IDW are publishing Dave Stevens: Complete Sketches & Studies, collecting all four of his sketchbooks, long out of print, in a hardcover volume. But they're making the collection available a few weeks earlier at San Diego Comic Con You can order copies now, one cover[...]

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,[...]

If no one has worked it out before the trade paperback 27: First Set is published, there will be a random draw ingfor anyone who does follow the instructions, gets the answer and sends it in, in the first week of publication. Unless of course someone completes the puzzle first… The first issue of 27: Second Set[...]

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[...]

That's good service. I'll have a couple of spare for San Diegoi for anyone with 3G access who fancies helping with some panel reportage for Bleeding Cool I can't be everywhere… 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[...]

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[...]

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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[...]

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 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[...]

So San Diego tickets are selling/have sold out Despite clicking F5 until your key finger is bleeding (and that has actually happened to some people), it's proved too hard But don't despair, Bleeding Cool is here to save you And your Slave Leia costume Ten ways you can still get into San Diego Comic Con[...]

From TicketLeap.com (which now seems to be working perfectly fine) a complete sell out for tickets for San Diego Comic Con 2011 In one day Less than one day, actually And it would have happened a lot sooner had TicketLeap held it together… Bit for those of you without tickets, do not despair! In one hour,[...]

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[...]