Tweet So what’s news? Besides the large number of titles ranking within the Top 1000?
Comic Action 2012: Germany’s Gen-Con + Comics
10/21/2012 by Leave a Comment
TweetWhile searching German comics publishers, I discovered a German comic con happening one week after the Frankfurt Book Fair: Comic Action 2012. http://www.comicaction.de/php/index.php?action=ausstellerinfo Here are the bullet points: Running since 1999 Part of SPIEL, a massive games show (halls 4-12 in Essen, 8+9 for comics) 152,000 visitors, 763 exhibitors from 31 nations showing their products [...]
Frankfurt “Comic-Con” 2012
10/20/2012 by 6 Comments
TweetWhile 115,000 people converged upon the New York Comic Con last week, some 280,000 booksellers, publishers, and bibiophiles packed the halls at the Frankfurt Book Fair, held October 10-14.
Mars Attacks… IDW?
10/17/2012 by 7 Comments
TweetWhen IDW recently announced their massive sales numbers for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, one of our commenters wondered if there would be a “Mars Attacks My Little Pony”. Guess what?
NYCC 12: NYCC Team addresses cosplay, crowding, first aid kits
10/16/2012 by 4 Comments
TweetAt one of the last panels of the day, Lance Fensterman and his executive staff sat down and received criticism, kudos, and suggestions from convention attendees. The panelists (biographies from ReedPop): Lance Fensterman is Group VP of Reed Pop which means he oversees the team and events on a day to day basis. He also works [...]
NYCC12: Day Four
10/15/2012 by 1 Comment
TweetSo I got to bed at Three AM (yeah, late night blogging…I lead such a glamorous life), and got out at Eight. Napping on the subway, my subconscious woke me up at Times Square, and I had to wonder… had I slept through to Monday? No, the crowded Sunday subway train was packed full of [...]
NYCC12: Day 3: It’s Getting Crazy…
10/14/2012 by 1 Comment
TweetOkay… again, I got up at a decent hour, and made it to the show around 11. I made the mistake of having the taxi let me off at the curb near the Yellow entrance, and someone with a megaphone berated me. (Hey, if that’s a problem, get the police to direct traffic. The taxi [...]
NYCC12: Day Two in Words and Pictures
10/12/2012 by 3 Comments
TweetToday, I got to the show at around 11:30. As I tried to hurry to the Andrews McMeel booth to get a book signed, I was amazed at the number of people wandering around. Shouldn’t they be at work on a Friday? Anyway, the crowds were not so thick that I could not crowd surf, [...]
NYCC12: Day One in Photos
10/11/2012 by 2 Comments
TweetMost of the first day was spent wandering the show floor from Three to Nine, checking out the big booths before the maddening hordes arrive tomorrow. Here are some photos. Taken from my cellphone. Sorry about the resolution. Any pics you’ve found online? Feel free to share yours!
NYCC12: New Kid In Town: New Exhibitors at Comic Con
10/11/2012 by 1 Comment
TweetSo today starts the seventh New York Comic Con. Unlike San Diego, it’s still not too difficult for a company to rent a booth on the show floor. (When the show map app went live a week ago, there were about an aisle’s worth of empty booths available.) The My Show Planner is quite an [...]
NYCC12: Survival Guide
10/11/2012 by 5 Comments
Tweet Okay, the professionals at Reed Pop have posted their survival tips, and it’s pretty good, covering most of the particulars. As you can see by the map above, once again there are colored entrances. (No, not like that… well, kinda.) Pros and VIPs enter through the Blue Entrance, and line up right outside Hall [...]
NYCC 12: Day -1: Pre-Show Photos!
10/10/2012 by 1 Comment
TweetOkay… I’m a bit confused… there is no “Day Zero” (unless that’s the early morning hours leading up to “zero hour” when the show opens). So, I’m counting Tuesday as “Day Minus Two” with GallaCon, and today as “Day Minus One” with the ICV2 Conference. As with last year, I wandered around Javits, snapping a [...]
Today is Torsten Day at Stately Beat Manor!
10/10/2012 by 4 Comments
TweetLast year, The Beatrix proclaimed October 10th “Torsten Day”, so I thought, “Why not make it an ongoing celebration?”
Coming Attractions: Fall-Winter 2012: Fantagraphics, W.W. Norton, and Related Publishers
10/07/2012 by 4 Comments
TweetEisner! Swarte! Hernandez! Lou Reed! Schulz! Kelly! Kubert! Tardi! Gottfredson! Van Sciver! Ryan! Woodring! Barks! Sendak! Bushmiller! Everett! Frazetta! Davis! Medley! The Crumbs! Wilson! Krigstein! Deitch! Millionaire! Bagge! Lots of great stuff from Fantagraphics, and from their distributor, W. W. Norton!
Michael Uslan to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Monmouth University
10/06/2012 by 3 Comments
Tweet Michael Uslan, executive producer of the Batman motion picture franchise and a pioneer of the academic study of comic books, thereby elevating the stature of the medium, will receive an honorary doctorate from Monmouth University during their annual Founders’ Day Convocation next Wednesday.
Fool’s Gold: Searching for Longbox Treasure: Asbury Park Comic Con, Part 2
10/06/2012 by 5 Comments
TweetWhen last we saw our stalwart treasure seeker, he was riding the subway, reading comics which he had found in the discount bins at a comics convention a beer bottle’s throw from the Asbury Park boardwalk. What tawdry tales did he thumb through while riding the rails to and from work? What four-color fictions fed [...]
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