Diamond announces Comic-Con exclusives
Shop, shop, shop. This year's Comic-Con is only 6 weeks away and we're going to try to avoid non-stop con coverage for every minute of the remaining time but...it's gonna be hard. Here's Diamond's...
Comic-Con TV slate shaping up
In non-comics news, a slew of TV-show related Comic-Con news is beginning to flood the nets. Among the slebs expected to attend: Ron Perlman, Katey Sagal, Nathan Fillion, and Lost's Daniel Dae Kim. ...
Today's con news roundup: LA comes on strong, exhibitor badges prohibitive
Wow, Ultimate Con-Wars is heating up with this interview with LA Inc SVP Senior Vice President Michael Krouse and avp of Media Relations & Communications Carol Martinez. Krouse is the driving force behind LA's bid for the San Diego Comic-Con -- an ongoing wooing that Krouse has been pressing for years. And in this interview he lays it all on the line, baby, he''ll work.
San Diego sweetens the pot for Con by a cool half mil $$$
Oh, San Diego, how you have changed your tune.
Increasingly serious about keeping what they now admit is tens of millions of dollars in revenue to local businesses, and the glamor and publicity that hosting...
San Diego's future still clouded; locals "ambivalent"
Comic-Con International held a board meeting yesterday, but a decision was NOT reached on whether to stay in San Diego or to move to one of the other cities ardently wooing the big...
Con Report Part 3: San Diego convention center gets more land
As covered extensively in the local San Diego press, a complex real estate deal has been okayed which would
allow the San Diego Convention Center to expand. Control over a seven-acre tract out in back...
Anaheim woos Comic-Con with rooms, room
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While San Diego city officials have made their deep, long lasting love for the Comic-Con International known recently, Team Jacob, aka Anaheim, also has much to offer, including a big, roomy convention center...
San Diego changes its tune: I just can’t quit you, Comic-Con
Yesterday's San Diego Union-Tribune has a front page story by Lori Weisberg entitled Is Comic-Con really leaving San Diego?, and unlike virtually every other story about this that we've read and commented on here,...
SDCC 2010 party preview
NY Mag's Jada Yuan has been attending the Sundance Film Festival and since San Diego is now completely Sundance-ified, here's what we have to look forward to:
Yesterday, on day four of the Sundance...
San Diego: Friday falls!
And, sometime over the weekend, Friday joined Saturday as an official sellout at the San Diego Comic-Con.
San Diego convention report update
Quite a few people announced today or yesterday that one-day Saturday tickets at the San Diego Comic-con had sold out. It actually sold out on December 18th when we made the screen shot below:
We...
San Diego sellout contest ends today at noon
Since Saturday is rapidly approaching sellout any day now -- yesterday's little San Diego guessing contest ends today at noon. The thread will be closed, responses recorded, and then...the waiting game begins.