The Beguiling: Original Comics Art at San Diego Comic Con! [read more]
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SDCC11: the Beguiling Art Sale
Looking to buy some amazing original art at San Diego? Stop by the D&Q booth for the Beguiling art sale. Details below. Art above by Farel Dalrymple, from Meathaus: SOS; below, Paul Pope for Saks Fifth Avenue.
Vukojevich repanels Bell Comicumentary
Repaneled is a newish blog that recreates classic comics panels in new art styles. Up today:
Anthony Vukojevich's reimagination of a key panel from Gabrielle Bell's San Diego Comic-Con Comicumentary. [read more]
Gabrielle Bell’s Comicumentary ends
The definitive account of SD10, just as great as it began. Can't wait for the Uncivilized Books version of this epic of epicness.
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NYCC 10: BOOM! Studios — #2135
BOOM! STUDIOS GUESTS INCLUDE: Eisner & Harvey Award-nominated IRREDEEMABLE & INCORRUPTIBLE's Mark Waid DARKWING DUCK's Ian Brill & James Silvani 28 DAYS LATER's Michael Alan Nelson FARSCAPE & CARS: THE ADVENTURES OF TOW MATER's Keith R.A. DeCandido [read more]
NYCC 10: Cartoon Network and Adult Swim
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 CARTOON NETWORK: Firebreather Exclusive Screening and Panel 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. jgLocation: 1A08 Talent: Phil Hester (co-executive producer), Andy Kuhn (co-executive producer), Peter Chung (writer/ director) Fans will get the first look at Cartoon Network’s original CGI movie, Firebreather, with an exclusive screening! ... [read more]
San Diego triumphs in the battle of the convention bureaus
As announced last evening, CCI: San Diego's board, despite intense wooing from other cities, has decided to keep Comic-Con in San Diego. The announcement has been met with generally universal relief thus far. Yes, we moan, we complain, but exchanging the city of San Diego's mild temperatures and [read more]
BREAKING: San Diego Comic-Con to Stay in San Diego!
It's official, via a press release. After long, complex negotiations that involved serious offers from Los Angeles and Anaheim, Comic-Con International: San Diego has just announced they will stay in the city they are named for.
With the Con's contract with the convention center expiring in 2012, and [read more]
Gabrielle Bell’s San Diego continues
Wow, shit gets very, very personal in this installment.
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Girls like to buy stuff, Times claims
The New York Times has a story on how Comic-Con has become a venue to market to -- gasp! -- girls with lots of info on various toy and clothing lines, including gymnast Nastia Liukin's Supergirl line of clothing. [read more]
Women who went to Comic-Con and drew comic strips about it
Jillian Tamaki
And Gabrielle Bell — this one is an EPIC.
We could have SWORN there was a third…but can’t find it now. Readers?
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Charts of Note #2: Does Comic-Con KILL movie buzz?
Has all the Comic-Con hype actually TURNED OFF some moviegoers? That's what what a chart over at THR seems to show, Jay Fernandez reports: [read more]
SD10 the wrap-up: Eating scraps
Lesson #1 of San Diego Comic-Con 2010: You can’t live on breakfast from the Embassy Suites.
Or if you do, you will pay a fightful price.
It was Thursday morning at Comic-Con, the morning after Preview night and the day when things blast into high gear with a roar of [read more]
SD10: True Blood was EVERYWHERE
By Shannon O'Leary, Entertainment Editor<P>
Last week I said I’d turn in a late True Blood Recap after I got back from Comic Con. Last week I hadn’t actually gone to Comic Con yet. Going to Comic Con this year was not unlike attending The Fall of Saigon. It [read more]
SD10: The Final frontier
As images of SD10 filter out, the defining one has yet to manifest itself, but in this image of a woman helping her Iron Man-themed friend pee into a bottle, we have a fetish-palooza: water sports, mascots, bondage, superheroes. No wonder Comic-Con is all things to all people. But the [read more]
DC Comics announces “All-Star Green Lantern”
With little fanfare, right under the noses of thousands of Comic-Con attendees, DC Comics, in partnership with Converse, announced the creation of five unique designs. (Literally. Most of the DC booth staffers were wearing the new designs last weekend.)
Available in September from Journeys, the line will feature five different designs based on [read more]
How others cover Comic-Con
As we wait for the Beatrix to recover from her annual pilgrimage to San Diego, here are some other websites, and their consolidated reportage on Comic-Con International: San Diego.
These are some of my favorites, and some I could remember. The list is not comprehensive, merely a distraction while we wait [read more]
SD10: All the Marvel and DC news
While we’re gathering our thoughts, hydrating, and moving to a new secured location, Newsarama’s Lucas Siegel has all the bullet points news from Marvel and DC at the show. Discuss. We’ll wait.
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SD10: FBI and Disney team for Mickey Mouse reprints
Probably the biggest “classic comics” announcement at SD10 was a new series of reprints of Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse comic strip. Disney is partnering with Fantagraphics for the reprints, which will begin in 2011.
Gottfredson’s Mickey was far from the benign company spokesman we all know and love. Rather he [read more]
Image launches DAOMU
DAOMU, a hot Chinese graphic novel/”transmedai” series about a tomb raider, is coming to the US via Image. PR below.
Image Comics and Concept Art House announced plans to release a series of Daomu comics based on one of China’s best-selling novel series. This will be Daomu’s debut in the [read more]
SD10: The Mop-up
Today is getaway day. Saturday and Sunday always turn into frantic catch-up adventures with little posting time, and I won’t be able to get my final con thoughts up until tonight, but it was a pretty good show. No one lost an eye. The big question was whether the time [read more]