new york Archives

iVerse To Take On ComiXology With App That Reads Pirated Comics Too
At New York Comic Con, I saw a rather interesting idea. Iverse are the company behind the Comics Plus app, which a few years ago was the big rival to ComiXology Then ComiXology snapped up a bunch of exclusive comic book companies, the likes of DC and Marvel got into bed with ComiXology and the point[...]
Resident Alien Gets His Mod On
Both famed Alan Moore collaborators, Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse’s Resident Alien return for a new series from Dark Horse Comics, Resident Alien: The
Adventure Time Takes Marceline To Space
Adventure Time is getting a new spinoff series in January, Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift taking the half-demon/half-vampire character and vampire
A Change In Collecting Original Art, Visible At New York Comic Con
As I perused the various pages of comic production art at this year's New York Comic Con I was surprised to see how often the post-production art on display, and for sale, was not the original hand-inked art, inked over the original hand-penciled art. Historically if there was a separate penciler and inker on a particular[...]
I Survived The Twins And Won MootCon 3 At New York Comic Con
Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, hosted their third annual MootCon on Thursday, the first night of New York Comic Con weekend Last year, I found out about MootCon 2 days after the fact, so I made it a point to keep an eye out for this year's event. The group of trivia[...]
A Week After Wristbandgate At New York Comic Con
by Ray Flook By now, most of you who read Bleeding Cool and were following its New York Comic Con coverage are familiar with what became known as "Wristbandgate." Now, I'm not looking to rehash what went down because that's not my purpose in writing this; so if you're interested in some background on it, you[...]
Ten Years of New Doctor Who At New York Comic Con – Comics, TV And Audio
Sorry for the error even though it was not mine. The original article appears below. Host Andre Tessier (LI Who and TARDIS Tavern) was joined on the NYCC stage by Ken Deep (host of Doctor Who an Occasional Podcast), Barnaby Edwards (President of Doctor Who New York), Nick Abadzis (writer for Titan Comics 10th Doctor), Deborah Stanish[...]
McCall's Pattern Company Booth At New York Comic Con
Their main office is located in New York while their factory where they print and distribute the patterns worldwide is located in Kansas. My grandmother was a seamstress in Germany and after immigrating to the U.S., she continued to do alterations out of the basement of her house I remember watching her sew as a kid[...]
Scenes From Around 'The Block' At New York Comic Con
by Ray Flook "The Block brings together art, design, collectible toys, pop-tech and fashion of the underground pop culture scene along with the tastemakers, trend setters, artists, thinkers and the brands that they create." (ReedPOP) I'm amazed by how much more popular The Block has become since its inclusion into New York Comic Con several years back[...]
Transforming Hasbro Into IDW, At New York Comic Con
Andy Bentley wrote for Bleeding Cool from New York Comic Con. The Hasbro/IDW partnership has been a fruitful one with the blockbuster success of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the ongoing saga of the Transformers The panel was all IDW consisting of John Barber (w), Amy Mebberson (a), Katie Cook (w+a), Mairghread Scott (w),[...]
Brian K. Vaughan, Cory Doctorow, An FBI Agent And An Ex-Israeli Soldier Join Forces at NYCC
"Kids don't have that stain yet." Vaughan then brought up a New York Times article that mentioned that kids who read the Harry Potter novels become more tolerant, precisely because the categories are made-up, like Muggles and Mudbloods, and not overt real-life groups, which could prompt defensive or resistant reactions. He joked to much laughter that unlike[...]