comic con Archives

NYCC '15 – Getting Cosplay Photos At SkinTight USA
And as you can see, people were not shy with some awesome cosplay which they brought over from the con. The night was perfectly started by a special cocktail they had put on called a Black Superman, which certainly helped to keep proceeds merry and rambunctious, especially with our entertaining drag hostess Erika Kalsh, in a[...]
NYCC '15: Pardon My Kandor
Chuck Brouillette writes, It was a beautiful autumn day in New York and I’d heard Friday may be gray and a much better day to be indoors and crawling the
NYCC '15: New York Gives You JazWings
Madeline Ricchiuto writes, JazWings, an offshoot of manufacturing and toy company JazWares, launched their crowd-funding, crowd-sourcing, manufacturing combination site this Monday to coincide with New York Comic Con JazWings is a platform for creators to gather support and funding for their ideas which follows them through the creative process, into the funding page, off into manufacturing,[...]
NYCC '15: Valiant Reveals New Shadowman Design For Operation: Deadside
In the meantime, Valiant has also debuted the first pages from Ninjak #10 by artist Doug Braithwaite – another preeminent member of Valiant's stable of exclusive artists that now also includes David Lafuente of the upcoming A&A series, also announced at New York Comic Con… Operation: Deadside will begin in December's Ninjak #10 and feature glow-in-the-dark[...]
NYCC '15: Inhumans Movie Cancelled By Marvel As Film Goes To War With TV?
UPDATE: You can find a follow-up article here. The original piece runs below. At New York Comic Con, it was announced that Marvel Studios would change the schedules of their first black solo lead and female solo lead films, Black Panther and Captain Marvel, to accommodate a new project, Ant Man And The Wasp. This seems like the first[...]
NYCC '15: The Artist's Alley Mile – Back And Forth From One Side To The Other (VIDEO)
New York Comic Con's Artist's Alley is big I reckon if you do all the aisles, that's about a mile Here it is… with a tiny clip removed at request. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHGg5bXXB8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: NYCC '15: The Artist's Alley Mile – Back And Forth From One Side To The Other (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHGg5bXXB8) [...]
NYCC '15: From One Side Of New York Comic Con To The Other (VIDEO)
But still a run from one side of New York Comic Con's show floor to the other – and then back again via a different route – for 2015. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZPJ9EMheWs[/youtube] Enjoy! Or your money back!   New phone Still a bit shaky and blurred But still a run from one side of New York Comic Con's show floor to the[...]
Charging For Signatures – The Readers Of Bleeding Cool Speak
Anyone who presents a comic to a pro at a comic con has already paid for that published work and it stinks of "double dipping" on the fans and readership, many who have already spent a good amount of cash themselves not only getting to a show but also spending money on sketches, small press[...]
Page Six One Six: Baltimore Comic Con Mini-Edition
Can't you guys anticipate that stuff better and send them out 24 hours earlier?" The entire room went silent as people looked around quizzically, wondering if the guy seriously just asked Diamond to exert greater control over the weather… For previous Page Six One Sixes that are a little… fuller, go here. 2009 Page Six One Six – 25th[...]
Asking Why Black Fans Avoid Black Creators At Comic Cons – The Pros Speak
Like Jay Z said "men lie, women lie, numbers don't." Now back to the subject at hand: my experience at comic cons when dealing with people of color has been a forced one, because most of them see a black man behind the table and they're with their white friends and are comfortable not being identified[...]
The Effect Of Not Charging For Signatures At Comic Cons (UPDATE)
Earlier today, we looked at Ben Templesmith's Tip Jar suggestion, encouraging fans to voluntary reward comic book creators at a comic book show for signing comics, or to donate to charity. But this weekend at Baltimore Comic Con, the conversation got a little more robust. It seemed to start with a difference between Neal Adams and retailer Dennis Barger[...]
LeftField Media Acquires Washington DC's Awesome Con
Launched by Ben Penrod two years ago, Awesome Con's  most recent show ran in June. LeftField Media was created by NYCC founder Greg Topalian along with Britton Jones, Mac Brighton, and Sharon Enright, and joins New York's Stream Con NYC, Play Fair and Chicago's AXPONA. Looks like they are coming for more traditional comic cons now… and we have a new player in[...]
Comic Con Wars – Columbus, Kansas City And San Francisco
   CXC – don't call it a comic con it's a comics festival Big difference, honest As Forbes reports, Festival director Tom Spurgeon says, "Our focus is different [from commercial conventions]," explains Spurgeon "It's on reading comics as opposed [what] some of comics' best creations share with TV and movies and [merchandise] Our focus is on authors and[...]
Larry Stroman On When Black Fans Avoid Black Creators At Comic Con
Larry Stroman, co-creator of Tribe and known for his work on Darkstars and X-Factor, wrote on Facebook. for all of you BLACK PEOPLE who go to comic shows,comic cons,events at comic stores who break your necks to AVOID every black creator working on an independent or mainstream book……you should be ashamed of yourselves. It seemed to strike[...]