BookCon Archives

Last month, ReedPOP postponed New York's BookExpo and BookCon 2020 from the end of May to the end of July, the same week as San Diego Comic-Con With the current global situation still ongoing, and New York City's Javits Center being transformed into a hospital, this looked less and less likely Yesterday, ReedPOP pulled off[...]

At BookCon today, DC Comics announced a new psychological thriller comic book by bestselling author Kami Garcia and artists Mike Mayhew and Mico Suayan The 12-issue series will be called Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity, and will ship monthly starting in October In the out-of-continuity comic, Harley Quinn is a young and brilliant forensic psychiatrist helping the[...]

Last weekend BookCon, held in New York city, Heidi MacDonald moderated the Comics Are Awesome panel with Ben Hatke (Zita the SpaceGirl), Jennifer Holm (Sunny Side Up), Raina Telgemeier (The Baby-Sitters Club) and Jeff Smith (Bone). All of these talented artists came to Bookcon to talk about their lives in comics, answer questions and share stories[...]

By Jemal Flores At BookCon in New York City, the Women of Marvel panel was held at the Jacob K Javitz Convention Center This year alone, according to author Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures series ) there are 12 female lead comic book titles."Women are killing it," said Stohl They are, indeed, killing it Titles this year[...]

On BookCon day they closed off a side of the Javits Center, which was only open to people with BEA badges I found that odd since last year the whole Convention floor was open to us, Power Readers… It is also, apparently, weird to see someone returning books to a pile as opposed to taking[...]