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Last month, Bleeding Cool ran an article on the San Diego Reader's collection of cosplay photos with caption by comedian Jay Allen Stanford that received the ire of the cosplay community for being overly sexually insulting. Captions were taken down, apologies made, lessons learnt. Until this week, when again the San Diego Reader posted cosplay photos with more[...]

A Hawkeye cover that looks like it's from Saga… To be presented at San Diego Comic Con… here are the nominations for the Eisner Awards 2014 This is the year of Hawkeye, of Saga and of The Wake Of Love And Rockets, of March Book One and Bluffton: My Summers with Buster. And of Fantagraphics and Image Comics[...]

You can increase your chances of obtaining a badge by reading all of the instructions carefully and having your personal information ready on the day of the sale. And if you still don't get in, there's always James Earl Jones… In other San Diego Comic Con related deadline news, Monday is the deadline for submitting works to[...]

GREEN LANTERN IS ALL TRUE The origins of the universe, from Green Lantern - and shots from NASA! MELINDA MAY... THE COMIC? Tom Breevort replies when

Clydene Nee is a regular volunteer staffer at San Diego Comic Con She works at Artists Alley, hell, she  runs Artists Alley, and has been principle in standing up for the artists and the space at the show every year, when other commercial pressures have reared their head. And she needs help. Mark Brooks, who has set[...]

Take a deep breath. You will not have to spend the rest of the Christmas period preparing for the sixteen seconds in which you'll need to get online, and then the subsequent four hours in line to purchase tickets for San Diego Comic Con 2014 Because Comic-Con registration has now been delayed until next year, so that[...]

Filmed at San Diego Comic Con Look at the smiles on their faces… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_02lenttwQ[/youtube] Filmed at San Diego Comic Con Look at the smiles on their faces… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_02lenttwQ[/youtube] Filmed at San Diego Comic Con Look at the smiles on their faces… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_02lenttwQ[/youtube] [...]

But San Diego Comic Con are still keeping their options open, reupping their trademark registration for the title, last applied for in 2009 And sitting alongside their 2011 registered San Franscisco Comic Con Always handy to keep those options open when negotiating with the city over the future of San Diego… their current contract with[...]

(Nov., 7-9, Cox Business Center) *new* With those fifteen plus San Diego, New York, Emerald City, Phoenix, Baltimore, Dragon Con, Heroes Con, Mega Con, Wondercon, APE, Mid-Ohio, Long Beach and Toronto just to name a few… you are looking at a convention every other weekend during the year… assuming they are not booked on the same[...]

The final video from San Diego Comic Con from Patrick Willems and the Afterwards They Will Explode team. Do go back and check out all the others… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-8_vJ-vMZE[/youtube]   The final video from San Diego Comic Con from Patrick Willems and the Afterwards They Will Explode team. Do go back and check out all the others… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-8_vJ-vMZE[/youtube]   [...]

[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/podpress_trac/web/9369/0/orbital-podcast-dan-parent-sdcc-2013.mp3]Robin Harman writes; Recorded at this year's San Diego Comic Con, our very own Chris Thompson, along with First Comic's News' Rik Offenberger, hosted a special panel looking at the career of Dan Parent. Through discussion with Dan, we hear the story of how he got into comics, his education at the Joe Kubert School, his career[...]

Kendra interviewed young kids at San Diego Comic Con about their choice of cosplay for Bleeding Cool. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyytXuzzl-w[/youtube] Man, that was uplifting. Kendra interviewed young kids at San Diego Comic Con about their choice of cosplay for Bleeding Cool. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyytXuzzl-w[/youtube] Man, that was uplifting. [...]

Patrick Willems and friends hit San Diego Comic Con… my favourite video yet, [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8Mzel8uUk[/youtube] Patrick Willems and friends hit San Diego Comic Con… my favourite video yet, [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8Mzel8uUk[/youtube] Patrick Willems and friends hit San Diego Comic Con… my favourite video yet, [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8Mzel8uUk[/youtube] [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgc5jFvyuMg[/youtube] Patrick Willems did rather well at San Diego Comic Con His friends caught up to him on Twitter… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgc5jFvyuMg[/youtube] Patrick Willems did rather well at San Diego Comic Con His friends caught up to him on Twitter… [...]

Patrick Willems continues his journey to San Diego Comic Con, and this time gets to see The World's End and shake Edgar Wright by the hand as he promises himself he would But how? Here's how. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDBsjU1VjC4[/youtube] Catch his previous episodes below, and his actual interview with the World's End Three on the other side of Bleeding[...]

Patrick Willems continues his video coverage of San Diego Comic Con (after a quick break for his epic Breaking Bad Jr video) – this time is was collecting the required cards to get into the screening… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3RX-Sj8T3s[/youtube] You can see the previous installments below… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nNiVjtgiVU[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Xv1UKe-YU[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4dw4l55li0[/youtube]     [...]

CBR ran a piece on the Paul Pope/Gene Yang discussion at San Diego Comic Con. Bleeding Cool was at a different discussion so we had some different stories (including a great one about a barber) However what we didn't have was this exchange… Paul Pope: "Batman did pretty well, so I sat down with the head of[...]

Patrick Willems brings you the second and third part of his San Diego Comic Con experience in video form There are Jeff Goldblum impersonators, Gandalf traps and the CBLDF party – and who exactly finished off Kristan Morrison's drink. Get down with the funky crew. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Xv1UKe-YU[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4dw4l55li0[/youtube] And Part One if you never saw it… shame on you. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4dw4l55li0[/youtube] [...]

The Hobbit's Azog for $1750, Green Arrow for $800, Superman for $600, Spider-Man for $550, Spider-Woman for $525, Bag End for $200… you can see why everyone wanted exclusive San Diego Comic Con exclusive Lego toys this year. And with such demand and so few figures, something was going to give. Dan writes for FBTB; So after Thursdays[...]

I only got to go down to SDCC for a day this year and had meetings most of the time I was there, but I did get to wander for a few minutes and found

By Nikolai Fomich  I remember Carmine. I met him once, a few years back at Wizard World in Philadelphia. I had bought a used copy of 1992’s The Greatest

The first Afterwards They Will Explode video from San Diego Comic Con Patrick Willems attended the show for Bleeding Cool and this is a teaser of what we are to expect. And I expect greatness. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nNiVjtgiVU[/youtube] The first Afterwards They Will Explode video from San Diego Comic Con[...]

[audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/2254/0/PCHPodcastEpisode49point5.mp3] by Chris Thompson The San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) specials continue with Episode 49.5! As with the previous show, this stuff is raw and unedited with a lot of ambient noise – but it's a great way to sample the flavour and character of SDCC This time around I catch up with old podcast friend and A1[...]

Every day is a new day, and even Wolverine had a rough go of things. Distant Worlds. July 18 Tonight is the last night that I have a friend with me and I decided to save all the craziness of attending after con parties and spend the evening at the Symphony. Tonight the San Diego was playing Distant Worlds,[...]

I remember when I heard the band Ween for the first time I thought "This is what I've been waiting to hear my entire life, I just didn't know there was a name for it." Sitting in the airport killing time before my flight home (I spent about 10ish hours in the San Diego Airport,[...]

Louis Falcetti writes; The panel for Bizarre? Queer? Perfect: Taming The Wild Webcomics Frontier, was an inspiring, interesting experience, featuring an

During Comic Con a friend gave me a call, saying they were doing a screening of the new Fox network show Sleepy Hollow and he had extra wristbands to get me in. Seeing a network show early is great but the best part was they gave out free pizza.

Alex Wilson writes and records for Bleeding Cool: Mike Norton is one of the best artists working in the comic book industry to date. His work in includes

Aaron Hale writes; It's kind of a tradition for me that the first night of San Diego Comic Con my wife and I attend preview night then we go out for a nice dinner This year we chose a restaurant in the downtown area called The Palm Not only did I have the best steak of[...]

Data courtesy of Bleeding Cool's Mark Seifert, based on some serious jigging around with Bleeding Cool page views. With the films and TV, Marvel won San Diego Without them, it was an easy win for DC Comics. They say that comics play second fiddle to films, TV and games at San Diego Comic Con I've never[...]