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 …
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Photos from the Masquerade Ball at NY Comic-Con 2010
Techland’s Joseph Chi Lin photographs the Masquerade Ball at NY Comic-Con 2010.
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Techland’s Comics and Digital Piracy Panel–Transcribed!
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 …
Interview: Scott Snyder on “Detective Comics”
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 …
Watch While You Can: The Avengers Teaser Clip
In an internet version of Whack-A-Mole, Marvel’s been slapping down the Avengers teaser that showed at Comic-Con 2010 a few weeks ago whenever it pops up. If you haven’t seen it, here ’tis:
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Here’s hoping Samuel L. Jackson narrates the whole movie like that.
Weird: Movie Bloggers Accuse Movie Blogger Of “Blackmailing” Studio
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 …
The Fan Girls of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Comics
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.
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Video: Small Press Creators at Comic-Con
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), …
Comic-Con To Announce Move Next Month?
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 …
Emanata: When I Am King of Comic-Con
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 been, both in numbers and in …
Thor Movie Teaser Leaks
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.
Enjoy it while you can, kids.
Comic-Con 2011 Preview Night Sold Out Already
Be very afraid: Preview Night at Comic-Con International 2011 in San Diego has already sold out. 15,000 four day passes for next year’s con – all of which allow participants access to Wednesday’s limited Preview Night opening – were sold on-site before the end of Comic-Con 2010, the fastest sell-out yet (In comparison, the same tickets …