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The #Valiant Summit Has Begun At Twitter HQ
Bleeding Cool EIC Hannah Means-Shannon has flown out to San Francisco for the Valiant Summit being held at  Twitter#s HQ and broadcast on Periscope. I'm in London, keeping watch Follow along here. I do wonder what they'll be announcing? The publisher has grown in profile immensely of late, with the announcement of a slate of five movies[...]
San Francisco Comic Store Launches Subscription Box To Beat $15 Minimum Wage Impact
His store in San Francisco isn't the biggest, but as a figure, he launched a class action suit on behalf of comic retailers against Marvel Comics, beat them, and ended up causing the current FOC system at Diamond Comic Distributors. And that's just for starters. But where the direct market didn't beat him, it's possible that the[...]
Will Minimum Wage Legislation Threaten Comic Book Store Survival?
On February 2nd, the blog for Borderlands Book Store in San Francisco posted In November, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly passed a measure that will increase the minimum wage within the city to $15 per hour by 2018  Although all of us at Borderlands support the concept of a living wage in principal and we believe that[...]
Image Expo Returns To San Francisco In 2015 – Including Marjorie Liu
January 8th. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. San Francisco Bay. Image Expo 2015 Lots of announcements and comic creators showing off their stuff With Brian K Vaughan, Todd McFarlane, Scott Snyder, Emi Lenox, Jeff Lemire and Marjorie Liu making announcements, with surprise guests yet to be announced. All names mentioned have existing mage comics out – except for[...]
Comic-Con International Hands APE Back To Dan Vado
Vendors at APE, the Alternative Press Expo starting toay, report that they have just signed a waiver so that the show can pass their details on to Slave Labor Graphics' Dan Vado. Why? Well, APE is a comic con founded by Dan Vado in 1994, though Comic-Con International, the owners of San Diego Comic Con and Wondercon[...]
Brian Hibbs Of Comix Experience Buys Comics Outpost, San Francisco
In November, Gary Buechler, owner of the Comics Outpost store in San Francisco, posted the following: At the end of the week, the Buechler posted; The Comic Outpost will live on It has been sold This is a good thing! Later that day, Brian Hibbs of Comix Experience sent this message out: Dear Awesome Comic Outpost customer! I want to introduce[...]
Batkid Saves Gotham!
Miles has a dream to be Batman and the folks at the Make-A-Wish Foundation and nearly twelve-thousand volunteers turned San Francisco into Gotham City for the day and Miles into it's Dark Knight protector. The response outside of the city has been impressive as well #batkid has been the top hashtag on Twitter for most of[...]
Comics From The Rock, San Francisco
Frazer Brown writes; Here’s a little curio spotted on my recent trip to “The Rock”. A series of comics telling the tale of the 10+ escape attempts that
Academy Of Art University – The Comic Book Club
Among the leaders in these new curriculums is the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, whose  comic book industry-involved teachers and passionate students are making strides to make sure AAU is the top of the line in comic book education and unrivaled in its rich and engrossing community of creators This weekend on Bleeding[...]
Academy Of Art University – Ultrasylvania
Among the leaders in these new curriculums is the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, whose  comic book industry-involved teachers and passionate students are making strides to make sure AAU is the top of the line in comic book education and unrivaled in its rich and engrossing community of creators This weekend on Bleeding[...]
Academy Of Art University – Piecing Together Figments
Among the leaders in these new curriculums is the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, whose  comic book industry-involved teachers and passionate students are making strides to make sure AAU is the top of the line in comic book education and unrivaled in its rich and engrossing community of creators This weekend on Bleeding[...]
Monday Runaround: A Porn Film In A Comic Shop
And a launch party for Ellipsis by Tom Humberstone on Friday, July 27th, 7pm -8.30pm. ApeWatch: From Boom, in September… Planet Of The Apes: Cataclysm. KickWatch: Check out this Kickstarter campaign for an upcoming graphic novel called The Adventures of Joe and Nancy. PassWatch: As the publicity over gay superheroes seems to posess every media organisation going, agaian,[...]
WonderCon Without A WonderVenue
The annaul WonderCon comic convention in San Francisco had a record turnout this year, almost topping 50,000 in attendance And positive feelings in abundance So next year is expected to be an even bigger blast. Except… Except there's a problem. The Moscone Center when the show is held, and frankly the only local venue able to put on[...]
WonderCon Waiting To Get In…
WonderCon has just opened. This is how it looked before... This is how it looks today... And these are the people queuing outside who are about to make it