Tag: Nerdlebrities

Cast members from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, including Simu Liu, are coming to Awesome Con, as two convention entities team up.

The Beat sits down with Fantastic Beast's Dan Fogler to talk about his comics writing career, the great coming yin/yang union, conspicy theories, and the coming of Brooklyn Gladiator in April.

Some news that's been floating around for a bit: Comic-Con HQ, the streaming video-on-demand channel focused on all thing Comic-Con lifestyle, will stream as its own channel no longer. The channel, which was launched...

Seeing as we're talking metrics this Monday, one of the stats revealed in one of the data presentations at last weeks ICv2 NYCC Insider Talks was that Riverdale ranks right after The Walking Dead...

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...

Convention season kicked into high gear last weekend with WonderCon, Anime Boston, Fan Expo Dallas and MoCCA all taking place, and the schedule just gets busier from here. Of all of them Fan Expo Dallas had the...

According to court documents, the lawsuit filed against former Wizard exec Shephen Shamus for Breach of Contract and Misappropriation of Corporate Assets (among other things) was settled last month. No terms were announced. As you may...

While this story has nothing to do with comics, it does have to do with cons, and when people see the word con, they think of the wonderful world of "Comic-Con," a celebrity filled nirvana...

Say it ain't so, Norman Reedus. Last week convention company Wizard World fired their Chief Marketing Officer Stephen Shamus, and they filed suit against him. The suit alleges that Shamus used his position to obtain more than $1 million worth of signed memorabilia and collectibles from Wizard World guests which he then sold. A sweet set-up for some extra cash, if true.

  Call this not a con war but an offsite war and not even really a war, but...it's getting so you can't swing a cat without hitting some kind of nerdlebrity activation around Comic-Con. The...

Disclaimer: I was a sponsor and paid guest for Awesome Con held last weekend in Washington, DC so considered this a sponsored post. That said, as you know, I write a lot about comic cons, and...

  Sometimes you gotta go with the real thing. Vampira, aka Maila Nurmi, was one of the first TV Horror hosts, and a star of Plan 9 from Outer Space, friend of James Dean, a carpenter,...