The Techland Guide to Having a Good Time at Comic-Con

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 [...]

Where to See Techlanders at Comic-Con

Comic-Con International San Diego starts tomorrow, and its program schedule features roughly three billion panels. (It would appear that the line for the “Scott Pilgrim” movie panel started yesterday.) But a handful of them are particularly notable, because we’ll be there. Here’s the scoop on Techland’s own “Comics and Digital Piracy” panel on Sunday, followed [...]

Handicapping the 2010 Eisner Awards

This Friday evening is the 23rd annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards–the most significant awards in American comics, voted on by comics professionals. This year’s Eisners are being awarded in 29 categories, and since half the fun of this sort of thing is guessing in advance who’s going to win, here are my picks and [...]

Comic-Con International: What to Get in Line For Early

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 [...]