Tag: con wars!

We;re ve been telling you for a while now that the Shamus Brother, Gareb and Stephen, were looking to get back into the convention game. And they are back, with the Ace Universe. Gareb, founder...

With all the money flowing through the con business these days, it's no surprise that lawsuits are springing up. The last few days have revealed a quartet of complicated CONtroversy stories that are vague...

Citing both a decline in convention attendance and the number of shows, Wizard World's latest SEC filings show a 50% drop in revenue for the first half of the year.

  So much is going on in the con world right now. I don't want to call it Con Wars yet, but the competition for guests, venues, vendors and fans is getting fierce as more...

Are there too many comic cons? Apparently not because John Macaluso, who was the showrunner at Wizard World until about a year ago, is launching his OWN line of shows, Fandemic. The inaugural show will be...

Adding a comic-con and a comedy festival to a usic festival featuring thee likes of Weezer and Crystal Castles, Chris Hardwick's first IF10T fest could be the start of something big.

Over the past 12 months I have been witnessing troubling times in our industry. Some people choose to ignore it, some think it’s a passing thing. Many vendors have taken note and decided to take measures until the industry fixes itself again. This will take time, and may never be the same.

Elite Con, will be held one day only, Sunday March 12 in Tampa FL, and it's a little different, a a trade show/collectors event. It has many unusual features, as laid out on its...

  Yesterday a rather curious message went out from Wizard World to vendors with a new table policy: they will no longer accept credit card payments for booths and tables, but require payment by cash...

by Bryon@miniworld (Here's an op-ed written by a veteran vendor who attends many comics events a year. We've been hearing a lot of viewpoints on the comic-con explosion from creators and publishers but here's the...

Los Angeles has gone from NO NFL teams to TWO in the 2017! WOW! After years and years of threats and ballot measures, San Diego Owner Dean Spanos just threw up his hands and announced...

A new framework for volunteering raises serious questions about law and business strategy. The Beat's recent articles on volunteering at Dragon*Con and Phoenix Comic-Con highlight an interesting new approach to legal limits on for-profits using...