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The FIQ – International Comic Book Festival, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil last month is the largest comic convention in the American continents With 148,000 beating San Diego's capped 130,000 attendees. It may pale against the likes of Japan's Comiket and France's Angouleme, but it's a lot closer for the average American than either of those[...]

And now both have a comic convention. They may be on sligjtly different scales however But The Canny Comic Con, being held next Saturday does have one jewel in its crown that San Diego does not, one of the best selling comics in the world, it's the home town of Viz Comic. Which is why Viz's Simon[...]

Here are the judges for next years Eisner Awards, to be held at the San Diego Comic Con! In Western-traditional reading order, they are… Brigid Alverson, comics journalist and reviewer After earning an MFA in printmaking, Brigid worked as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter She started MangaBlog to keep track of her[...]

And Gail Simone has been round the Leeds City Centre shops looking for a Dalek. It can only be the launch of what many consider Britain's best comic convention, Thought Bubble. This weekend, as part of the Leeds Sequential Arts Festival running right now, the city will host a comic convention dedicated to style. Add Jeff Lemire, Adam[...]

I attended the MCM London Expo this weekend. Met up with friends, found some cool stories, saw lots of cool comics, costumes and finery and my two

At the MCM London Expo, Alex Fitch interviewed Batgirl and Fury Of Firestorm writer Gail Simone as she gave us all manner of insight into her work. This

A couple of years ago, the MCM London Expo was held at the Excel Convention Centre at the same time as a Mission Of Peace And Light, attempting to unite

Those attending the MCM London Expo who usually swerve to the far right of the massive hall expecting the Comics Village may grow increasing puzzled as

Dirk Manning writes for Bleeding Cool when he's not doing a million other things. No one was sure what to expect last year when the news broke that Mid-Ohio Con, long seen as one of the most stable and consistent of the independently-owned regional shows of the Midwest, was being bought by Wizard World. On the eve[...]

But it's not down to the local government it seems, but Comic Con International: San Diego City Council President Toby Young tweets; Comic Con's David Glanzer has been reported as saying that "Young's statements about the discussions were inaccurate and said Comic-Con's primary reason for not wanting to have the parade [...]

When San Diego Comic Con is on, the whole town turns comic con and people arrive just to hang outside the show, to watch the cosplayers, to go to the comic-themed parties, to even be tangentially part of the experience New Yorkers, not so much They've seen it all before And anyway, the Wall Street[...]

It may seem a rather stretched juxtaposition, a New York Comic Con being a litany of visual treats, but that's never stopped Tommy Edison before And here's his video report… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPdk6A8fRLI[/youtube] Previously… Edison reviews Scream 4. It may seem a rather stretched juxtaposition, a New York Comic Con being a litany of visual treats, but that's never[...]

Check it out in the player below! The DC Superhero Statues of New York Comic-Con Our own Stephen Totilo spent some time at New York's Comic Con today, and among his activities he's put together this video of some cases of super hero statues from the DC Comics booth Many of the old favorites are in the[...]

Chrissy Williams, wife of Uncanny X-Men writer Kieron Gillen, is in and around Times Square right now in the middle of the Wall Street protest that has

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