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This weekend, while I'm signing my new comic book at Forbidden Planet (have I mentioned that at all?) Wondercon, from the people who bring you the San Diego Comic Con, is kicking off in San Francisco. Everyone will be there Marvel and DC of course, but also Avatar, Aspen, IDW, Slave Labor Graphics, Boom!, Archaia, Image,[...]

So we had the great running of the San Diego Comic Con Ticket Purchase… now it's time for the sequel, getting yourself a hotel room once you are there. The San Diego discounted rates for local hotels are for sale from 9am PT, Noon ET, 5pm GMT on March 9th At which point you can select[...]

So San Diego tickets are selling/have sold out Despite clicking F5 until your key finger is bleeding (and that has actually happened to some people), it's proved too hard But don't despair, Bleeding Cool is here to save you And your Slave Leia costume Ten ways you can still get into San Diego Comic Con[...]

From TicketLeap.com (which now seems to be working perfectly fine) a complete sell out for tickets for San Diego Comic Con 2011 In one day Less than one day, actually And it would have happened a lot sooner had TicketLeap held it together… Bit for those of you without tickets, do not despair! In one hour,[...]

And now Friday and Saturday tickets for San Diego Comic Con 2011 have officially sold out too, James Sime of Isotope Comics is giving Bleeding Cool readers who failed to get their San Diego tickets a slight glimmer of light. Your own free FailFrog button to celebrate the failure of geekness infused with technology. Just send a[...]

But now it seems, even with the faulty technology, that not only is the Four Day Ticket close to sell out (if not already sold out) but the Saturday Only ticket is now approaching that, for both adult sales and senior/military sales. So while there is understandable frustration all round, both among people trying to buy[...]

UPDATE: Get past the green screen of death and it looks like the Junior 4 Day Pass may be about to sell out… "Why don't you use a proper ticketing company" was the cry after San Diego Comic Con had failed to sell tickets for the third time, as their site kept crashing Expense was cited[...]

4AM Sydney. Tomorrow is the big day when, fourth time lucky, you can buy your ticket for San Diego Comic Con 2011. Each time, so far, has proved disasterous With far more people wanting tickets than will ever be allowed through those doors, sites have crashed, crashed and crashed again But this time they have an expensive[...]

Spend three hour working at San Diego Comic Con, and get in for the whole day, free You could be filling bags with programmes, you could engage your Napoleonic desires by commanding crowds only go the way you are pointing, you could accompany Joss Whedon for a walkthrough, you just don't know! Registration for volunteers at[...]

But it is pretty much true, isn't it? San Diego City Council President Tony Young talked to Sign On San Diego about his plans to open the San Diego Comic Con with a parade. OK So, if you want more people to come here on Wednesday and rent out their hotel room and stay a[...]

For the movie Paul, the production team recreated San Diego Comic Con in New Mexico to begin the movie At the end of San Diego 2009, a number of publishers left material behind to be picked up by the producers to be shipped across the country and assembled to make the mock up as convincing[...]

You know what San Diego? Why not issue a list of comic book creators who aren't going to Con this year? It may well be shorter. The new guest list is comprised of Sergio Aragonés, Ed Benes, Anina Bennett, Yves "Balak" Bigerel, Chester Brown, Ernie Chan, Jo Chen, Seymour Chwast, Dick DeBartolo,Tony DeZuniga, Eric Drooker, Mark[...]

The San Diego Comic Con entrance passes use a specific coded entry system on badges, scanned on entrance and repeat scanned through the show Forged tickets are hard to get away with – but not impossible. However just photocopying your own entrance badge and selling the copies on Craigslist isn't going to work Especially when you[...]

Welcome to another Lying In The Gutters. This week's episode is brought to you by Epic and...kkzxslfl.. bbnnbxwjja... ERROR! ERROR! ERROR! Top Twenty

And so Comic Con International: San Diegio have closed registration again after, for the second time, the whole computer system crashed. Epic, the company