Tag: Boston
On the Scene: MICE turns fifteen
Sunday afternoon, the second day of MICE, and I’m headed to a panel. The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo is celebrating their fifteenth anniversary this year, going from a (locked) room at the end of...
On the Scene: MICE 2023 sows success by putting exhibitors first
MICE, the wicked crowded Mass. Independent Comics Expo, was a blast for fans and creators alike. The Beat was on the scene.
Review: Karl Stevens is actually ‘The Winner’ here
The pressure to do something a little more than make a transcript of your life seems to build on autobiographical cartoonists as they get older and realize that the lives of most people who...
ON THE SCENE: Boston Comic Con Regroups in Bellingham
by LTZ -- There was some unpleasantness in Boston this week -- you might have heard. Friday afternoon, mere hours before the FBI and police captured suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Hynes Convention Center sent word down: Boston Comic Con was off. It was an everyone-loses situation: the con organizers are almost certainly out a lot of money for nothing, the guests are out potential income (especially those who were taking a weekend off from steady gigs), the fans are out their con experience, the cosplayers are out their costume contest, and the retailers were out a big source of revenue. This was such an eleventh-hour move by the Hynes that the retailers had their merch packed up and ready to go, just waiting for the all-clear to start hauling it into the convention center.
