Tag: C2E2 2014

Are you going to C2E2? The Beat is not for the FIRST TIME. Torsten will be there for all the inside story as only Torsten can cover it, but if you have a hankering to listen to people make awkward banter about upcoming comics and then race to feverishly type it up, you may be just the person we're looking for! If you'd be interested in covering it for The Beat, email me at comicsbeat at gmail dot com.

§ Maine cartoonist Jeff Pert died suddenly at age 53. Pert was known for his local humor, and his cartoon books were a staple of Maine gift shops. Casablanca Comics Rick Lowell remembered him: "His...

Dorkly is a sister site of College Humor that offers a lot of comics and gaming-related humor, but in a positive, not mean spirited, way. They're ramping up a lot of their offerings including launching a a series of events based around nerd-centric gatherings. One of the first is the Dorkly Fan Art Expo , where fan art will be displayed at C2E2 April 25-27.

With ECCC only a dwindling memory and a box of kleenex from the con crud everyone caught, C2E2 is bearing down on us on April 25-27. Chicago's biggest comics event will have the usual line-up of guests from all areas of the industry. However, the website panel listings don't allow you to see the whole thing at one, but courtesy of ReedPOP's Marykate Nagourney, here is the whole list of programming in an easy to find way. Highlights include a storytelling panel with Amanda Conner and Cully Hamner, Mark Waid on his digital and retailing exploits, Christina Blanch and Carol Tilley on various comics and academics topics, and the usual MArvel, DC, Dark Horse, Boom and so on panels

What shocking secrets will you learn in today's thrilling episode of Kibbles n' Bits?

It’s been an age since I went onto a Marvel conference call – heck, it’s been an age since I did anything over here which wasn’t an interview. So today when Marvel set up...

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While the next 120 days will, for comics pros, be filled with planning for all the shows between now and San Diego -- C2E2, WonderCon, Emerald City, MoCCA, TCAF, Denver, Heroes, and so...

ReedPop, the company that puts on New York Comic-Con, C2E2 and so on, has been hinting at international expansion for a while now and now it's confirmed that they are partnering with Oz Comic...

If you are open to working in Norwalk, CT, ReedPOP, the branch of Reed Exhibitions that runs New York Comic Con, C2E2, Star Wars Celebrations and the PAX shows, among others, has a couple...

By Matt O'Keefe Charles Soule is beyond busy. Since Image/Shadowline published his rock fantasy 27 in 2010 he has gone on to write a number of comics from publishers including Archaia, DC, and Marvel. With his creator-owned Letter...

Yep it's more picks and prognostications, with a few tasty previews thrown in. Ted McKeever, cartoonist 2014 Projects: THE SUPERANNUATED MAN  A new Golden Age format, B&W, 6-issue series from Shadowline/Image, coming out around June/July...