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Boom! To Announce San Diego Announcements – Before Comic Con
Last year, Boom! Studios came to San Diego Comic Con after the merger/aquisition/whatever-actually-happened with Archaia, with newly exclusive signed George Pérez in their trophy cabinet. By merging their already-booked booths, Boom! and Archaia has quite a sizeable presence as a result So what for this year and what to announce for a publisher who's local show[...]
San Diego Star Wars Exclusive: A Bustivus For The Restofus
  This is the San Diego Comic Con 2014 Exclusive bust from Gentle Giant for Star Wars character Jek Porkins. Yes, the fat X-Wing pilot with a beard. And the one who most resembles many comic con attendees, including myself So he has a special place in our heart And while other busts may look like this… Or this… Or[...]
San Diego Comic Con Registration Opens This Saturday. For Thirty Seconds.
You can increase your chances of obtaining a badge by reading all of the instructions carefully and having your personal information ready on the day of the sale. And if you still don't get in, there's always James Earl Jones… In other San Diego Comic Con related deadline news, Monday is the deadline for submitting works to[...]
Kickstarting The Seventies And Eighties With Jackie Estrada
Julius Schwartz and Jack Kirby from 1987. Jackie Estrada began helping to put on the San Diego Comic Con in the seventies, and currently administers the Eisners Awards, as well as co-publisher of Exhibit A Press. During which time, she took a photo or two.  Or two hundred. She is currently running a Kickstarter to fund the production of[...]
What Creators Really Get Out Of Cons – The Devastator Survey Numbers Are In
The wide array of shows that the survey ended up reporting on is truly impressive, including Emerald City Comic Con, WonderCon, Phoenix Comic Con, Comikaze, The Small Press Expo, APE, San Diego Comic Con, New York Comic Con, and Stump Town We reported on the survey previously at Bleeding Cool, and now the results are[...]
Fox's Sleepy Hollow Is Wildly Entertaining But Is It Wildly Inaccurate?
First off, I'm aware that we're dealing with a wildly fantastic fictional reality when it comes to Fox's new series Sleepy Hollow, so far up to 5 episodes and on a brief hiatus (due to the World Series), though it has been renewed already for a second season. *[This discussion is spoiler free, only using information[...]
Comic Convention Complaints Go International
Another who had been to the San Diego Comic Con complained that there were no creators as guests A third sounding more defeated said they had noticed at other conventions as well the the soul of comics was diminishing. Organizers of the event say that merchandise is a bit part of every convention and that the[...]
Bleeding Cool #1 Comic Blog And New Advertising Options
The San Diego Comic Con went from being the biggest comic convention of the year to the Pop Culture juggernaut that everyone has to be at The top slots of the box office charts were filled with Capes and Star Ships Batman, Punisher and Transformers logos started showing up on car windows and t-shirts everywhere[...]
The Morning After The San Diego Comic Con Before
This was the experience of many yesterday, trying to get tickets for San Diego Comic Con. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Q-KgZTMf8[/youtube] Which was rather different to the official version; [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucu2z6tVDm8[/youtube] One Bleeding Cooler got their tickets with, as they put it; 3 computers in Rhode Island and one in San Francisco It does seem that this is the way[...]
Sixteen San Diego Comic Con Panels In Full Audio
Thank you Jamie Colville and your amazing mutant powers of recording combined with HTML mastery and photography! Sixteen San Diego Comic Con panels, recorded with audio I even appear to be on a couple of them, but don't let that put you off… How to Get News Coverage (53:51, 49.3mb) Moderated by Rik Offenberger, a bunch of[...]
Mike Mignola's Last San Diego Comic Con
So, basically, if you want to see either at San Diego Comic Con, today would be your last opportunity… Joshua Stone writes in to Bleeding Cool; I was at Mike Mignola's booth today buying a print from his wife and I overheard her saying that this was the last time Mike was coming to San Diego[...]
Wednesday Runaround – The Logic Bomb Of DC Entertainment
Before Watchmen may get green-lit, but would  the original series get commissioned in the current  climate…? A 32-page book, no-ads; a stand-alone story with all new characters… and creator-owned? Would a company like DC go for that nowadays? Nah. "But they should." ExtraCurricularWatch: The Beat lists the massive carnivals and events going on around San Diego Comic[...]
San Diego Comic Con PR Runaround – Marvel, Disney, Adventure Time, Teen Wolf, Inbetweeners, Joss Whedon, Firefly, Tim Burton, Nathan Fillion, Fringe, EL James, 2000AD And More
Every morning I wake up to more San Diego Comic Con promotional activity So now, so can you. Marvel Studios: MARVEL STUDIOS will be hosting its Hall H Comic-Con panel on Saturday, July 14 from 6:00pm – 7:00pm. Marvel Studios presents Iron Man 3 Join Producer Kevin Feige and special guests as they provide an inside look at[...]
Diamond Sells Out San Diego Variant Covers
Bleeding Cool posted a run down of the exclusive items being offered by Diamond for San Diego Comic Con, to be sold by retailers at the show or after the show. Adventure Time (right), Amazing Spider-Man, Walking Dead 100, Mars Attacks #1, Astonishing X-Men #51, Batman Be@rbricks, Marvel and Battle Beasts MiniMates, R2D2 piggy banks and[...]