The nominees for this year’s Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards–effectively the comics business’s Oscar’s–were announced Thursday night. (The actual award winners will be announced at this July’s Comic-Con International in San Diego.) Half the point of making a short-list of award nominees, of course, is to get people to argue about what’s on them and [...]
Comic book convention season officially opens today, with the beginning of Emerald City ComiCon in Seattle. Between now and the middle of October, a whle lot of people in the American comics industry will be crisscrossing the country on a regular basis, digging through their pockets to come up with big announcements for every show, [...]
Will anyone ever be able to register for 2011′s Comic-Con International in San Diego? Yesterday, online registration for the event was once again shut down after technical problems less than thirty minutes after re-opening for the first time following registration opening and closing within two hours due to overwhelming demand on November 1st. The problem [...]
After months of hedging, speculation and delays, Comic-Con International has announced the plan for the show’s long-anticipated potential move after 2012: it’s staying put in San Diego and its convention center (and bits of the convention center’s neighboring hotels) until at least 2015, rather than moving to either Los Angeles or Anaheim.
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.
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.
Comic-Con International is here, taking over the San Diego Convention Center, most of the rest of San Diego, and the lives of the 130,000 or so people who go there from July 21-25. It is a pressure-cooker of an event, and it’s easy to have a miserable time there if you get caught up in [...]
Comic-Con International San Diego has now announced its full programming schedule for the July 21-25 event. We’ll be offering our picks of the less humongous panels early next week, but here are some of the gigantic events that you’ll want to plan your day around if you want to get into them. There are going to [...]
