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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[...]

Seen in the small press sections of San Diego Comic Con, the people involved tell the story of the new, revived, Human Fly… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTwmuoJ0zSA[/youtube] Do you remember The Human Fly? A name used by many stuntmen, in the seventies it was adopted by Rick Rojatt, who inspired a nineteen issue comic series from Marvel with the name[...]

By Hannah Means-Shannon Duane Swierczynski, who seems to be just about everywhere these days, has always had a big old soft spot for true crime and

Welcome to the final set of coaplay photos from Bleeding Cool taken at San Diego Comic Con 2013, courtesy of Endymion Mageto, Devin Quin and Corey Hale… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ [...]

Dustin Hall writes for Bleeding Cool: While SDCC is, for many, the happiest place on earth, there's still important business to attend to. While others

Nikolai Fomich writes for Bleeding Cool: At Comic-Con this year DC held the DC Comics Too Tough Trivia Panel, featuring editors Eddie Berganza, Brian

But now that San Diego Comic Con has become the epicenter of all things pop culture, we're top dogs We're the tastemakers and we're an incredibly powerful tool if used properly. I was excited to hear what some of the industries best marketers and pundits had to say about  the Power of Geek panel on Saturday[...]

By Hannah Means-Shannon DC's "My Secret Origins" panel was held in one of the largest meeting halls of the con, but still felt like one of San Diego Comic Con's best kept secrets As fans scrambled to go to spotlight panels or those that were likely to yield big announcements, a powerhouse group of some of[...]

Joshua Stone writes for Bleeding Cool: This panel was moderated by John Siuntres, host of the Word Balloon podcast. The panel was made up of the top

Joshua Stone writes for Bleeding Cool: J. David Spurlock of Vanguard Publications moderated the panel, and he started off by asking Frank Brunner about

Eric Rezsnyak writes for Bleeding Cool: The “Gender in Comics” panel that took place Thursday at Comic-Con International stirred up controversy a week

San Diego Comic Con Cosplayers, with just the right amount of slo-mo… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-I3h15VgyE[/youtube] Can you see yourself? Let me know if you do… San Diego Comic Con Cosplayers, with just the right amount of slo-mo… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-I3h15VgyE[/youtube] Can you see yourself? Let me know if you do… [...]

Perhaps for some it's all about recognizing a name or subject. Best Publication Design Who Won: Building Stories, designed by Chris Ware (Pantheon) Who I Picked: Building Stories, designed by Chris Ware (Pantheon) Riots would have happened in San Diego if Ware didn't win in this category I still marvel at the design and size of the thing when[...]

Joshua Stone writes for Bleeding Cool: The panel was moderated by Mark Evanier, and featured an amazing lineup of comic book greats – Sergio Aragones,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArbSycXRAkA Aaron Haaland writes; Hey Fandom, I'm back from SDCC and ready to read more comics! I had a freaking blast at

Matt Harding writes for Bleeding Cool: 75 years of Superman. Let that sink in for a minute if you will. Superman has been with us through World War 2,

From the Marvel Studios panel at San Diego Comic Con… Last week, you couldn't get a dollar for Avengers #257 on eBay Then Karen Gillan took off her hair. Now the comic, the first appearance of Gillan's character Nebula is a five dollar plus book, with lots of room for growth. Just like Gillan's scalp right now. [...]

Hannah Means-Shannon writes for Bleeding Cool: Zach Oat and Chuck Terciera hosted the Diamond Select Toys panel at SDCC to give glimpses of soon to be

Bex Cook and Dan Oakley write for Bleeding Cool: Moderated by Mel Caylo and featuring Mouse Guard creator and driving force David Petersen and

Now they have a train that runs through San Diego. Those who say San Diego is no longer about comics are wrong Comics remain at the centre of the literature, the programming and the booths and displays, more than anywhere else It's just there's other stuff as well Comic Con evangelises comics to other fanbases. Even if[...]

Chris D'Lando writes for Bleeding Cool: When Max Gaines decided to package newspaper comic strips into the modern comic book, he fundamentally changed the

Joshua Stone writes for Bleeding Cool: The 2013 SDCC is my 11th, and in all those years I have never seen a panel go off the rails like this one did. The

Joshua Stone writes for Bleeding Cool: The panel included: James Lucas Jones, Oni Editor in Chief.  John Schork, Director of PR at Oni. Joe Harris, Writer

Hannah Means-Shannon writes for Bleeding Cool: George R. R. Martin, introduced by William Christensen of Avatar Press on behalf of his upcoming series The

Quin writes for Bleeding Cool: The Tick redefined superhero comedy for the modern reader, and Saturday at the San Diego Comic Con it celebrated its 25th Anniversary…again, I think If a marketing gimmick is good once, it's good twice, right? On hand for discussion were Ben Edlund, the creator of the Tick, Chris "Jackson Publick" McCulloch who[...]