Quebec tabletop publisher Scorpion Masqué announced their latest game, Festival, which will be coming out this Fall The game will put all of you in charge of your own cities as you attempt to create the best closing ceremony to your own festival, complete with fireworks shows that will end each one You'll use tiles[...]
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This summer's Adult Swim Festival is going the "Block Party" route and taking the show to Philly from August 5-7, and they're not messing around right out of the gate The weekend includes over 15 shows across 4 venues, all set to remind you about the things you love about Adult Swim via games &[...]
Games For Change dropped details today about their 2021 Festival, including themes for the event and a call for submissions The event will take place July 12th-14th, and while not specified in the news, we're guessing this year's event will be held online As usual, the event will focus on "social justice, ensuring a thriving[...]
This year, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will be in the spotlight at SXSW Festival – which will be taking over most of downtown Austin, TX with multiple events Not to be outdone, network programming pal Broad City will premiere its final episodes on Sunday, March 10 – followed with an exclusive[...]
Coming off of the success of last year's inaugural edition, the Tribeca TV Festival will be heading back to New York City this September to celebrate the best and brightest storytellers in televison and episodic storytelling.
From September 20-23 at Spring Studios, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the stars and creators of favorite and[...]
Blockers writer Evan Goldberg and producer James Weaver talk about the missing element from their movie in this exclusive interview from the red carpet at South by Southwest 2018.
America's largest and longest running horror film festival unleashed the "first" wave of its official 2017 film line-up on Tuesday, as Screamfest Horror Film Festival prepares to stalk the grounds of the TCL Chinese in Hollywood from October 10-19, 2017 Celebrating its 17th year, the film festival gives filmmakers and screenwriters in the horror and science[...]
Breaking this morning out of the ComicsPRO conference in Memphis, TN, Valiant has just announced via Entertainment Weekly that the award-winning publisher is partnering with the 2017 Vans Warped Tour for a first-of-its-kind artwork and branding collaboration spanning the festival's upcoming summer season.
Not only has Valiant artist Kano designed the lead artwork and design materials[...]
There are many things that excited me about 2000AD's upcoming 40 Years of Thrill-Power Festival on 11th February And not just that Hammersmith is just a thirty-minute bus ride away from me But that is one of them.
Here are all the others… including panels hosted by Bleeding Cool's Olly Macnamee Tickets have sold out, but Bleeding[...]
We have already run the DMC-In-The-House Thought Bubble live set of It's Tricky and Walk This Way, but here's a look at some of the rest of party night…
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Joining the traditional Thought Bubble DJs Kieron Gillen and[...]
Bleeding Cool Editor-In-Chief Hannah Means-Shannon will flying in early for the Thought Bubble Comic Festival in Leeds and I'll be joining for the Thought Bubble Convention a little later It will be the first time for both of us, as for me the show is usually on at an awkward time for me, and Ms[...]
Bleeding Cool's Senior Scottish Correspondent Gary Gray writes from Edinburgh;
For the last few years the Edinburgh Book Festival has been dipping its toe in comics Normally the Book Festival focuses on purely the written medium with a few comics related events thrown in, mainly focusing on creators who cross borders of the medium such as[...]
By Hannah Means-Shannon
After a successful inaugural year in 2012, taking over the same space as the previously running Philadelphia Alternative Comic Con, the Locust Moon Festival is returning on October 5th, moving to a bigger venue at the Rotunda on Walnut Street, and adding twice as many creators to its list of guests and exhibitors[...]
Chris Ware, Joe Sacco, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Paul Cornell and Posy Simmonds are taking are part in Stripped as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Other names include Denise Mina, Paul Gravett, Melinda Gebbie, Warren Pleece, Roger Gibson, Chris Riddell, Jon Naught, Stephen Collins, Robin and Lorenzo Etherington, Robbie Morrison, Jim[...]
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is an attempt to bring the comic book festival more common in European cities such as Angouleme or BICS.
On the back of renewed media interest in the graphic novel, after the award success of Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes, Bryan Talbot and Mary Talbot and founding the festival along[...]
On Saturday, January 12th from 10am to 4pm, The Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture of Harlem, New York, will be launching their first Black Comic Festival.
It is described as "a dynamic festival for young people that celebrates the rich tradition of black superheroes and features a screening of the film "White Scripts and[...]
Last month I went to the launch of Dudebox, a new customizable vinyl figure line, at a club in East London. It was the most Nathan Barleyish event I'd ever been to and I used to work in advertising.
Tomorrow that venue will host ELCAF, the East London Comics & Arts Festival I may have to[...]
A couple of weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran a piece on the About Heroes podcast, and their decision to run what appeared to be a puff piece interview with
Legendary French cartoonist and one of the founders of L'Association, Louis Trondheim has written an open letter to the largest comics festival in the world, Angoulême, published in the major French newspaper, Le Monde yesterday.
Here is an attempt at translation.
Angouleme: Love It Or Lose It
Since time immemorial, creators have been dissatisfied with the Angoulême[...]
French comics magazine Zoo is publishing a free special edition for Angoulême. And, because it's free, they're putting it online in advance too. The cover
This is what happens when upu mess with a comics arts festival It up sticks and moves across town Issues with the Institute of Contemporary Art have seen the annual ComICA festival drop those capitals to become plain old Comica and relocate its main stage to the London Print Studio in West London, well away[...]