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The Denver Post is covering what appears to be a serious split amongst the management of the Denver Comic Con, following conversations with co-founders Charlie La Greca and Frank Romero, no longer associated with the show But they are setting up a SaveDenverComicCon.com website and promoting a town-hall style meeting about the issues on Sunday. The[...]

  That's the poster for the Barcelona Comic Con, by Carlos Pacheco. The statue of Columbus points to America, the continent he discovered, and that's the direction the superheroes are flying in from Expect a strong American contingent this year…   That's the poster for the Barcelona Comic Con, by Carlos Pacheco. The statue of Columbus points to America,[...]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMR1ReDvZ8[/youtube] A recent episode of The Big Bang Theory (aka, The Show That Hates You) saw the compatriots fail to get tickets to San Diego Comic Con, despite some serious screen refreshing (the kind of thing you're not meant to do) Alternatives mentioned such as WonderCon in Anaheim were just not enough[...]

I understand that Swiss/British publishing, conference and investor company Informa purchased the Dallas Comic Con last week. The show, running since 2002, has previously been run under the SciFi Expo banner from the OfficialPix company. Last year, Bleeding Cool broke the news to the wider comics community that Informa had purchased the Toronto Fan Expo, and this[...]

Olly MacNamee writes, The MCM Midlands Comic Con returns to the International Centre in Telford this coming weekend, Saturday 15th February 2014, and as well as popular returning guest Hannah Spearrit (Primeval, S Club 7) the big draw no doubt will be the appearance of several stars of Red Dwarf, Danny John Jules (Cat), Chris Barrie[...]

He has exhibited the statue at a number of comic conventions and was recently invited to do the same at Stan Lee's Comikaze convention in 2012, after he approached them. It didn't go well Walker has finally been able to write about it First the e-mail he received: He also mentions his disability: A spinal injury sustained during[...]

A couple of years ago, the North London comic convention Kapow won two Guinness Book Of World Records for the fastest produced comic book and the most creators on a single comic book for a special issue of Mark Millar's and Leinil Francis Yu's Superior. Well, Kapow is no more And their world record has been beaten[...]

Ian Melton writes from Wizard World Portland Comic Con, I spoke briefly with Joseph Michael Linsner, first about his work on Conan about how Dark Horse approached him originally to be their cover artist to do something totally different than what Marvel had done with Conan before. He also spoke about the Wolverine/Black Cat mini-series Claws from[...]

Ian Melton writes for Bleeding Cool from Wizard World Portland Comic Con: Wizard World has partnered up with the LA Film School, and its owners Paul Kessler and Diana Derycz-Kessler, to announce the Wizard World Independent Film Contest and Awards. Winners will be announced at each Wizard World Comic Con going forward, giving the winners a $2500[...]

But crack Bleeding Cool reporter Ian Melton tells us, from Wizard World Portland, that not only has the convention expanded to twice the size it covered last year, but he reckons there's twice the crowd there as well. Hardly scientific, but definitely expansion for the comic convention organisers in the Portland area, and deservedly given the[...]

Ian Melton, our reporter on the ground at Wizard World Portland this weekend, has picked up on some big news regarding writing duties on Dark Horse's

Clydene Nee is a regular volunteer staffer at San Diego Comic Con She works at Artists Alley, hell, she  runs Artists Alley, and has been principle in standing up for the artists and the space at the show every year, when other commercial pressures have reared their head. And she needs help. Mark Brooks, who has set[...]

The golden ticket at San Diego Comic Con is a four day pass for the whole show, with the Preview Night thrown in But they sell out fast Then the Saturday sells out, then the Friday, then the Thursday, then the Sunday… It's going to be a bit different for San Diego Comic Con this year[...]

[audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/2889/0/PCHPodcastEpisode67.mp3] Chris Thompson writes: Following on from last week's exclusive presentation of Alan Moore & Lance Parkin in conversation at The Princes Charles Cinema in London (which you can still listen to here) I bring you a couple of panels from this year's Malta Comic Con, featuring Mike Carey & Sean Phillips. First up, Mike & Sean take[...]

Take a deep breath. You will not have to spend the rest of the Christmas period preparing for the sixteen seconds in which you'll need to get online, and then the subsequent four hours in line to purchase tickets for San Diego Comic Con 2014 Because Comic-Con registration has now been delayed until next year, so that[...]