Tag: when a con is crap
FanX co-founder Bryan Brandenburg takes leave of absence after mishandling harassment complaints
A fairly huge story has been brewing on the convention scene all month regarding FanX - the huge pop culture event held twice yearly in Salt Lake City - its co-founder Bryan Brandenburg and...
Are last minute convention cancellations hurting everyone?
The other day The Beat was the first to report that LA's Epic Icon Comic Con had been cancelled a week out. The two sites that cover such #confails have also weighed in with some...
Universal Fan Con: What Went Wrong
If you spent your weekend doing fun things like seeing family or going on vacation, you may have missed perhaps the biggest imbroglio in "When A Con is Crap" history, Universal Fan Con.
When a con is a con: showrunner runs away with money, three guests hospitalized
Details are a bit sketchy, but clearly SOMETHING bad happened last weekend at the 2017 Cosplay Con & Anime Experience in North Little Rock, AR.
The event focused on cosplayers and guests were drawn from that...
Fandom Fest: Comic con held in an abandoned Macy’s doesn’t go well- UPDATED
A bizarre setting and questionable policies made everyone from Weird Al to fans change their plans for Fandom Fest.
Con Watch: An angry crowd formed when Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Norman Reedus departed...
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...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/8/17: Skeletor, confidant
§ It’s International Women’s Day so let’s kick things off with Nell Brinkley, the Jazz Age Great, and a drawing of a woman riding a giant lobster.
§ Comics writer Mags Vissagio (Kim & Kim) lost...
Con report: Comics Excitement was anything but
Another weekend, another when a con is crap, this time in Los Angeles.
Even more complaints about Marvelous Nerd Years Eve
As we reported a few days ago, the New Years Eye themed con Marvelous Nerd Years Eve had a lot of problems: people didn't show up, fans didn't always get what they came...
When a con is crap: Even Stan Lee was not enough to save Marvelous...
Marvelous Nerd Years Eve with Stan Lee, held this weekend in Dallas, is the latest show that over reached in its first year, drew far fewer people than expected, and has left a cloud of accusations in its wake.
When a con is crap: Panama City Beach Comic Con
We haven't had a crappy con tale in a while, but what happened at the Panama City Beach Comic Con in Florida seems to be a textbook case: the promoter (Greg Messick) announced a...
Has the great comic-con contraction begun?
What goes up, must deal with thinner oxygen at higher atmospheres. The last two years have seen unprecedented growth in comic cons/ media events around the world, with many showing spectacular growth.
But as we keep pointing out in our "When a con is crap" recurring feature, this also means a lot of fly by nighters and unprepared rookies are jumping in and not achieving the results they might have hoped for. And along the way, unsuspecting vendors, guests and attendees are getting caught holding the empty oxygen tank.
