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Chris Evans, Captain America from Marvel's recent films, will make his Wizard World Comic Con debut at the New Orleans Ernest N Morial Convention Center on Saturday, January 9th for Wizard World New Orleans. He'll be meeting fans, signing autographs, posing for photos with a live Q&A session. He'll be joined at the show in Saturday by Hawkeye[...]

A limited run of Walking Dead #1 with a new cover, this time by The Crow creator James O'Barr, used as a giveaway for people going to Wizard World – in this case Wizard World Louisville, from November 6th to 8th at the Kentucky International Convention Center VIP attendees will receive an additional black & white[...]

By Cat Taylor Howard Chaykin at Wizard World Comic-Con in Nashville, Tennessee: He had a lot of opinions and wasn't afraid to share them (Part 2, find Part 1 here) Despite presenting a somewhat "prickly" personality at his first panel, Howard Chaykin, delivered an enormous amount of information and was incredibly entertaining Plus, he turned out to[...]

By Cat Taylor Howard Chaykin at Wizard World Comic-Con in Nashville, Tennessee: He had a lot of opinions and wasn't afraid to share them (Part 1) I knew it wasn't going to be a boring panel when Howard Chaykin marched into the programming room and looked around with mock disgust as he shouted, "Only eight people showed[...]

This weekend, there are several pop culture conventions going on throughout the country, but it marks the first ever Wizard World Pittsburgh as well As we've done here on Bleeding Cool in the past, we'd like to suggest some panels to you that will be particularly educative and inspiring to the comics fan who wants[...]

Campbell was in the area this weekend for Wizard World at the Donald E Stephens Convention Center. His style works… but he may need to work on his geography a bit. Campbell will be next seen in Ash Vs The Evil Dead premiering October 31st on Starz. [youtube]https://youtu.be/LyKal_GvH6A[/youtube] [...]

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Wizard World is coming to Orlando, and Mike is planning world domination with a We Be Geeks get together! Also did the Star Wars cannon get completely ruined? This, and more on another astounding episode of We Be Geeks. Subscribe today on iTunes and Stitcher and leave a 5 star review Leave a voice mail on[...]

But there are plenty of other imaginative promotional options available to the pair. Such as printing 1,000 copies of the 35,000 print run of Sex Criminals #11 as blankish sketch covers and spending the day drawing genitalia and other provocative images on the covers, before sealing them up in the bags that all the copies will[...]

It features Carl Grimes, eye socket flu frontal… Which suggests that Skybound may not be bound by this recent Image Comics edict. As with others, it will be provided free to all full-price attendees at Wizard World Comic Con Des Moines, June 12-14th. While VIP attendees will receive an additional black & white sketch version of the comic. Watch to[...]

On Saturday, Wizard World will be pushing their new digital TV channel CONtv with a rather tempting offer Free streaming of the David Tennant and Billie Piper panel from Wizard World Philadephia on Saturday 1.30am ET and Stephen Amell at 3.30pm. You can sign up here for free access to both panels: The Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey[...]

And now Marvel has launched their very own subscription box, and everyone else is watching the market avidly. I understand that Wizard World is launching their own version, the first Comic Con to enter the market And calling it Comic Con In A Box while they are at it, applying for a trademark under the terms[...]

In 2014, Wizard World brought in $23,060,178 in revenue This is over double their 2013 revenue of $11,186,134. This is on the back of running seventeen events in the year, as opposed to nine in 2013, with an average revenue per show of $1,356,481. With 2014 operating expenses increasing to $6,823,253 from $3,921,585, that's an increased revenue-per-show a reduced expense-per-show based on 2013's numbers. And[...]

Cinedigm and Wizard World have announced that CONtv will launch on March 3rd The multi-platform OTT service geared toward the Comic Con community will be available as both a free ad-supported platform as well as a $6.99/month subscription that would open up exclusive content as well as ticket bundle prices for upcoming Wizard World shows[...]

reporting for Bleeding Cool in Portland Oregon, at Wizard World Portland. There are many heroes in comic books Mostly we see super heroes in the pages of comic books, sometimes every day heroes as well, but the heroes behind the scenes are truly rare.  There is also the Hero Initiative, a non-profit that in its own[...]

Wizard World Chicago Comic Con is in August And that is how the Chicago comic world is divided. Aside from this year, when Wizard World will run a the Wizard World Comic Con Fan Fest Chicago event the month before C2E2, in March. For $25 for the weekend or $15 for a day – or free admittance to[...]

Nina Williams vs JayCee (Tekken) – Tajfu (/) & Neko-tin. Photographer -TarasVB Denise Dorman's comments about the recent convention experiences of she and her husband, the famed fantasy illustrator Dave Dorman, caused considerable online commentary. Reddit launched a thread with exactly that. johndesmarais No, Cosplay is not killing Comic Con – Comic Con is killing comic fandom at Comic Con (although the article actually[...]

Marvel and Wizard World continue their collaboration with the latest exclusive variant cover, this one is Death Of Wolverine #1 by John Tyler Christopher for the Richmond Comic Con This is the second exclusive variant by Christopher as he drew the Amazing Spider-Man #1 for the Atlanta Comic Con in May. Christopher will be on hand[...]

Wizard World has applied to register the trademark for Wizard World Comic Con TV to cover Streaming of audiovisual and multimedia content via the internet; transmission and delivery of audiovisual and multimedia content via the internet; video-on-demand transmission services and Entertainment and educational services, namely, providing non-downloadable movies and television shows in the field of fantasy, science-fiction, comic[...]

By Hilton Collins Rising star Jon Bernthal, most famous for playing nefarious, tortured deputy Shane Walsh on the first two seasons of The Walking Dead, answered fan questions during a Q & A panel Sunday at Wizard World Sacramento at the Sacramento Convention Center. The actor shared numerous anecdotes from his career, mostly from his time on[...]

Limited to 250 copies. The Michael Golden cover to Daredevil #1 being given away at Wizard World Louisville Comic Con. The Winter Soldier: Bitter March #1 given away at Marvel's SXSW panel yesterday, signed by members of the panel And already several copies at low prices on eBay… Travis Charest's cover to Starlight #4 – and the original[...]

Taken at Wizard World Sacremento Comic Con by Hilton Collins, for Bleeding Cool… is there anyone you recognise? Is it you??? #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 */ Taken at Wizard World Sacremento Comic Con by Hilton Collins, for Bleeding Cool…[...]

Ian Melton writes from Wizard World Portland Comic Con, I spoke briefly with Joseph Michael Linsner, first about his work on Conan about how Dark Horse approached him originally to be their cover artist to do something totally different than what Marvel had done with Conan before. He also spoke about the Wolverine/Black Cat mini-series Claws from[...]

Ian Melton writes for Bleeding Cool from Wizard World Portland Comic Con: Wizard World has partnered up with the LA Film School, and its owners Paul Kessler and Diana Derycz-Kessler, to announce the Wizard World Independent Film Contest and Awards. Winners will be announced at each Wizard World Comic Con going forward, giving the winners a $2500[...]

But crack Bleeding Cool reporter Ian Melton tells us, from Wizard World Portland, that not only has the convention expanded to twice the size it covered last year, but he reckons there's twice the crowd there as well. Hardly scientific, but definitely expansion for the comic convention organisers in the Portland area, and deservedly given the[...]

Ian Melton, our reporter on the ground at Wizard World Portland this weekend, has picked up on some big news regarding writing duties on Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Slayer titles in 2014. Issues 3 to 5 of Buffy season 10 will be co-written by Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander in the show, and Christos Gage[...]

I mean, really, if there's a cooler place to socialize and network with fellow professionals than amongst dozens of dinosaur fossils and exhibits, I've yet to experience it. Oh… and as an added bonus, the architecture of the building was also the inspiration for the Hall of Justice from the Super Friends. Yes… really! Look! Wonderworld Comics (Taylor,[...]

Marvel Comics has announced a program for the VIP attendees of the 16 Wizard World Comic Con's scheduled for 2014 Each VIP will receive an exclusive variant cover of a Marvel comic The first two covers will debut in Portland (Jan 24-26) and New Orleans (Feb 7-9). Comic's legend Neal Adams will be doing the first[...]

That particular weekend Nashville played host to it's first ever Wizard World convention. The Nashville area has seen its share of smaller fan conventions of various types over the years but Wizard World putting on a full scale Nashville Comic Con was more obviously designed for the mass public than the comic niche The convention[...]

So… how many copies of Walking Dead #1 can one man own? Wizard World continues to put that to the test with its Nashville Comic Con and the free variant copy given to attendees (and the B&W version to VIP attendees) with a cover by Mico Suayan It's the seventh in their line of exclusive Walking[...]