Comic Book Critics » SDCC ’10

SDCC11: the Beguiling Art Sale

The Beat — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:45:40 +0000

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.

The Beguiling: Original Comics Art at San Diego Comic Con!

Vukojevich repanels Bell Comicumentary

The Beat — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:13:04 +0000
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.

Gabrielle Bell’s Comicumentary ends

The Beat — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:05:12 +0000
The definitive account of SD10, just as great as it began. Can't wait for the Uncivilized Books version of this epic of epicness.

NYCC 10: BOOM! Studios — #2135

The Beat — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:01:38 +0000
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

NYCC 10: Cartoon Network and Adult Swim

The Beat — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:00:31 +0000
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! ... Robot Chicken Signing Location: Room 1C02 Talent: Seth Green, Matt Senreich MAD Signing at the DC Comics booth #2243 Childrens Hospital Signing Location: Show Floor - Autograph Alley Talent: Rob Corddry, Jon Stern, Rob Huebel and Erinn Hayes, Lake Saturday, October 9 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. 2:00–3:00 p.m. 3:45 -- 4:45 p.m.

San Diego triumphs in the battle of the convention bureaus

The Beat — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:00:56 +0000
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 convenient layout for the bland boulevards of Anaheim or gang-infested alleys of Los Angeles wouldn't have really been much of an improvement. It isn't much of a surprise, really -- things had been going this way for a while and it was very clear that the board wanted to stay in San Diego.

BREAKING: San Diego Comic-Con to Stay in San Diego!

The Beat — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:12:53 +0000
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 the facilities MAXED out for space, everyone has been wondering if the con would move to a different city that offered more perks, The city of San Diego has been seen as indifferent to the biggest civilian convention of the year, although that has changed in the last couple of years.

Gabrielle Bell’s San Diego continues

The Beat — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:37 +0000
Wow, shit gets very, very personal in this installment.

Girls like to buy stuff, Times claims

The Beat — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:04:28 +0000
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.

Women who went to Comic-Con and drew comic strips about it

The Beat — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:01:09 +0000
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?

Charts of Note #2: Does Comic-Con KILL movie buzz?

The Beat — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:04:38 +0000
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:

SD10 the wrap-up: Eating scraps

The Beat — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:55:56 +0000

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 thunders and a crack of ozone. It was my second morning at the Embassy Suites, the “family hotel” of the Inner Circle. With a free breakfast buffet and “manager’s receptions”—aka FREE BOOZE—every evening, not to mention giant suites that sleep 6 comfortably, the Embassy Suites is the best bargain at the con for those, like this year’s Beat, on a budget.

SD10: True Blood was EVERYWHERE

Shannon OLeary — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:50:24 +0000

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 was a crowded combat zone littered with hundreds of thousands of nerds elbowing each other out of the way so they could get their pop culture freak on until one of them got stabbed in the face with a pen! <P>

I’m not saying it wasn’t fun. I had a blast! But after all that madness, chaos and immersive viral marketing I just don’t have it in me to properly recap the sixth episode of Season Three: I Got A Right To Sing The Blues. Sorry to not live up to my commitments to you, the fang faithful, but I’ve been to war and back and I’m going to save my recapping jujitsu for episode seven on Sunday. What I can do now is tell you a little war story.<P>

SD10: The Final frontier

The Beat — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:46:31 +0000
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 one message that this image [...]

DC Comics announces “All-Star Green Lantern”

Torsten Adair — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:30:50 +0000
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 the iconic Chuck Taylor All [...]

How others cover Comic-Con

Torsten Adair — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:00:14 +0000
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 for Heidi to return. So first, [...]

SD10: All the Marvel and DC news

The Beat — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:05:18 +0000
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.

SD10: FBI and Disney team for Mickey Mouse reprints

The Beat — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:29:47 +0000
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 was a bold, dynamic adventurer, [...]

Image launches DAOMU

The Beat — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:14:14 +0000
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 U.S., following a successful graphic [...]

SD10: The Mop-up

The Beat — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:16:03 +0000
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 economy of con — people [...]