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San Diego Comic Con 2011 – EPIC Fail
Ticket sales for Comic Con International: San Diego 2011 are open The four day (with preview night) sold out at last year's show (which means now the only way to get into Preview Night at the show is to attend the previous show) and Four days for $105 full price, or single days for $37 ($20[...]
6am PT. 9am ET. 2pm GMT. November 22nd. Honest.
Because this is the date, these are the times, at which tickets for San Diego 2011 will go on sale Honestly this time With servers getting ready to take the rush. So Californians, wake up on time New Yorkers, get to work early Brits, don't have a late lunch Because those tickets will go, and go[...]
A London San Diego For 2011? Mark Millar Says We'll Find Out In Weeks
He states that his partner runs an event organising company in London and is planning a "huge San Diego style show" for next year. The location would be the Business Design Centre in Islington in North London for the 9th and 10th of April 2011. The aim is to create a European equivalent[...]
The Limey Has Landed
I'm sitting in a cool air conditioned hotel room in the Manchester Hyatt wondering if I should daub pro-gay graffiti on the walls to salve my conscience, but it'll only get cleaned off by overworked hotel staff… Landed in LAX earlier (with Antony Johnston, Antony Daniels and Gillian Anderson), got driven in by Pinguino (left) in[...]
Rich Johnston's Dance Card At San Diego Comic Con 2009
Okay, a bunch of you have asked what I'm up to at San Diego Here is my dance card, bookmark it if you want, email me to add your own Then bookmark this page and I'll add updates. I feel like having a Little Bleeders Breakfast on the Thursday,  Friday and Saturday, say If you're a[...]
Tony Lee's Guide To Surviving San Diego
Take it away, Tony! So, San Diego is coming up soon, and if you don't know what that means, then you should give your 'comic book fan' card in at the door and go home The San Diego Comic Con has become so big, so gigantic that it's known by both contractions – San Diego and[...]
San Diego Comic Con 2099 Take On Touts By Beating Them At Their Own Game
I recently ran a story showing how people have been selling tickets to San Diego Comic Con for over $600 on eBay. It looks like Comic Con have stepped up and have been selling a limited amount of tickets on eBay for cover price Which has destroyed the tout market overnight. Unless of course touts buy all[...]
Awwwww… Simon Pegg And Nick Frost Not To Film 'Paul' At San Diego Comic Con
Part of the movie takes place at San Diego Comic Con and there were high hopes that the production would film on location at Con, using the tens of thousands of exhibitors Sadly, this has not turned out to be the case Pegg told thelondonpaper "We are recreating Comic-Con for it in Alberquerque, New Mexico[...]
San Diego Dreaming: How Much????
This seems to be the new way to make a little money. Buy a four day pass to SanDiego for under $100. Sit on it for a month. Then, after it's been sold
San Diego Dreaming: The Strangers In Paradise Omnibus
San Diego Comic Con International does have a habit of providing consumers with one very very heavy prestigious item to fill their luggage allowance every year. With 1400 pages split over two hardcover volumes in one slipcase, with a third volume containing all the colour covers, this remastered, corrected complete volume of Terry Moore's masterpiece will[...]
San Diego-Style Comic Con To Come To London?
Strong rumours that a comic convention of a similar style and scope to the San Diego Comic Con and the New York Comic Con have been circling of late. One Liam Fisher claims to have the rights to put on a UK version of Comic Con in London. Fisher is behind this ad on a Newsarama forum[...]