So George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, Christopher Paolini, Scott Westerfeld, David Anthony Durham and I walk into a bar.
Unlike some (bald) people, we can’t all be at Comic-Con this year, soaking up our annual allotment of nerd sweat and “he’s-right-over-there!” celebrity sightings. As the nexus of almost al things nerd, The Con’s been a gracious host to an increasing video game presence in recent years.
Dateline: San Diego! Where every year countless hordes of “Trekkies” and “cosplayers” and other freaky “pocket protector” types descend on the convention center for what “some” have called “nerd Woodstock”…
When you’re a professional, when you’re going there for work, the sad truth is that you do not go to Comic-Con with a feeling of joy in your heart. You go with a weary sense of inevitability.
Thinking about going to Comic-Con International 2011 this July in San Diego? Too bad. Unless you’ve managed to score tickets already, it doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen: all 100,000-plus spaces for attendees are now completely sold out.
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 [...]
“That television… it bewitched me,” – Galvatron from The Transformers
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.
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 [...]
