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Bryan Brandenburg is well known to Bleeding Cool readers as the co-founder of FanX, formerly known as Salt Lake Comic Con, who went up against the San Diego Comic-Con over the "Comic Con" trademark, ended up losing to the tune of $4 million, which led him to apologise and to change the name of his convention[...]

Bryan Brandenburg is well known to Bleeding Cool readers as the co-founder of FanX, formerly known as Salt Lake Comic Con, who went up against the San Diego Comic-Con over the "Comic Con" trademark, ended up losing to the tune of $4 million, which led him to apologise and to change the name of his[...]

Bleeding Cool ran a report on the court case that went against Dan Farr, Dan Farr Productions, and Bryan Brandenburg of FanX: Salt Lake Comic Convention — formerly known as the Salt Lake Comic Con See, Bleeding Cool can call them that, but according to the court report, they are not allowed to. As well as the $4 million in[...]

Last December, San Diego Comic-Con ostensibly "won" its court battle with Salt Lake Comic Con over the rights to the name Comic-Con The trial, decided by jury, ruled that San Diego Comic-Con did indeed own the valid trademark to the term, and also that Salt Lake Comic Con used it without permission But the victory was[...]

Bryan Brandenburg, co-founder of Salt Lake Comic Con, says that the convention may turn to Crowdfunding to pay the legal fees stemming from its fight with San Diego Comic-Con over the Comic Con name. Brandenburg made a brief comment about the plans in an Associated Press story, and followed up with more details on Facebook[...]

At Salt Lake Comic Con 2017 over the weekend, panelists Shannon Barnson, Kaitlyn Booth, Luke Hunsaker, Christian Lambert, McCord Larsen, and John Siuntres talked all things Marvel TV, including The Defenders, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Legion. Marvel continues to expand all over television, so it was time to sit down with a bunch of other nerds to talk about[...]

At Salt Lake Comic Con 2017 over the weekend, panelists Kaitlyn Booth, Aaron Burton, Michaelbrent Collings, Brian Higgins, and Candace Tarkeshian discussed how mental health and illness is depicted in the media, and how it's handled within fandom. Mental health and mental illness has been used to justify plot twists, villain motivation and for comedic effect in genre work[...]

At Salt Lake Comic Con 2017 over the weekend, panelists Kay-B, Kaitlyn Booth, Debra Jenson, Valynne E Maetani, Kat Martin, and Kristal Starr discuss the experience of being a woman in geek culture in the current climate. A chance to hear from the women who make Salt Lake Comic Con and the Wasatch Front geek scene cutting edge and[...]

At Salt Lake Comic Con 2017 over the weekend, panelists Kaitlyn Booth, Lucas Fowler, CB Lee, Adam McDonald, Zane Riley, and M Brooke Wilkins discussed embracing LGBTQIA+ inclusivity in geek culture. Just as there are nearly an infinite number of colors in the rainbow, so too is there massive diversity among us in the LGBTQIA community[...]

At Salt Lake Comic Con 2017 over the weekend, panelists Kaitlyn Booth, J.R Johansson, Christian Lambert, McCord Larsen, and Tracy Mangum talked all things Legion and why it's the best Marvel property on television. Noah Hawley has taken one of the more obscure characters of the Marvel Universe and made 8 episodes of must see television[...]

The geek community surrounding Salt Lake Comic Con has not been a pretty place for the last several days, in the wake of the announcement, via Facebook poll, that the convention was thinking of inviting author Orson Scott Card as a guest Card has spoken out against the LBBTQ+ community since the mid 1990s, and[...]

Salt Lake Comic Con has announced that Stan Lee will not be able to attend FanX17 "…due to health reasons After a second visit to the doctor this morning, he was advised to rest and recuperate rather than risk getting worse."  The ever-busy Lee, who had to cancel last weekend's appearance at Big Apple Comic[...]

Salt Lake Comic Con's organizers have long contended that they should be able to use "Comic Con" in their name, without the hyphen, since the term is generic But San Diego's legal team argues that the similarity has confused people into thinking that Salt Lake's event is somehow associated with the larger California convention. As[...]

Appearing at Baltimore is Toe Tag Riot #0, an exclusive prequel to the the Westboro Baptist Church parody comic. Their target of their zombie punk rock heroes  in this prequel issue however are "misogynist cosplay creep douchebags" A story that won't be available in the regular series, it's limited to 300 issues, from the Toe Tag team: Written by[...]