New York Comic Con might not be the biggest comic convention out there, but don’t tell that to the over 100,000 reported people who showed up wearing cosplay and bearing comic books. The East Coast’s biggest comic book convention sold out Saturday, with many in attendance making the three-day endurance battle to buy exclusive merchandise [...]
Techland’s Joseph Chi Lin photographs the Masquerade Ball at NY Comic-Con 2010.
One of the highlights of Comic-Con, as far as we’re concerned, was the Sunday-morning “Techland Presents: Comics and Digital Piracy” panel, featuring comiXology’s CEO David Steinberger, manga expert Deb Aoki, and manga editor Jake T. Forbes, with Techland’s Douglas Wolk moderating. Aoki has posted a transcript of the entire panel over at About Manga. A [...]
DC Comics announced yesterday that the single-named artist Jock–best known for drawing The Losers–would be joining writer Scott Snyder as the creative team on Detective Comics as of November. We spoke briefly with Snyder at Comic-Con (before the Jock announcement had been made public) about what will be coming up for Batman in Detective.
If you didn’t already think that blogging was a particularly cut-throat, dog-eat-blog world, then perhaps this more-than-slightly-odd story will change your mind: Alex Billington, founder of FirstShowing.net, has been accused of “blackmailing” Universal to gain entry into a preview screening of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World at Comic-Con International by his peers.
This year’s Comic-Con was squirming with female nerds. TIME’s Vanessa Kaneshiro pulled some aside at the convention center in San Diego to find out what piques their interest. See what they had to say in the video above.
Hundreds of comics creators were showing off their work at Comic-Con International. We caught up with a handful of them to talk about their small-press projects, both new and still-in-the-works. In order of appearance: Meredith Gran (Octopus Pie), Cecil Castellucci (Odd Duck), Jacen Burrows (Neonomicon), Thomas Zahler (Love and Capes), Dylan Meconis (Family Man), Kevin [...]
There may be a quicker resolution to the question of whether Comic-Con International will leave San Diego than most expected; in a post-con interview with Comic Book Resources, CCI Director of Marketing and Public Relations David Glanzer said that the organization was looking to make a decision about the con’s future home much sooner than you might have expected.
I’m not going to deny it: I had an absolutely great time at this year’s Comic-Con. I saw some fascinating panels (and moderated a few), I found some books I’ve been looking for forever, I bought some fantastic original art, and I was convinced, contra Lev’s essay, that nerd culture is the healthiest it’s ever [...]
Man, the only thing I can say is that these five minutes go a long way to assuaging the concerns I had about Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation. Head over to Screened for a whole lot of awesome.
