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Continue ReadingGeekMom Melody gets a night out and shares with you three Comic-Con HQ shows you should be watching.
Continue ReadingComic Con or Gen Con? Our guest poster picks Gen Con, and here’s why.
Continue ReadingThis week’s poll: which Comic-Con announcement has you the most excited?
Continue ReadingSupanova Sydney 2016 had a light side, and a dark side. Here is the serious look at the missed opportunities in the Supanova Diversity Panel. Read my parallel ‘Supanova 2016’ post for the unicorns and rainbow review.
Continue ReadingThis week’s poll: What do you like about cons?
Continue ReadingThis year marks only the fourth Awesome Con in DC, which began as a labor of love among a few fans who simply couldn’t believe that our nation’s capital didn’t have its own comic con.
Continue ReadingAh, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Home of famous casinos, renowned beaches… and a comic con? You bet! Click for more information and a chance to win tickets!
Continue ReadingThis past weekend I attended my first Wizard World Comic Con in Portland, Oregon. Every time I go to a con in Portland, I am so pleasantly surprised at how low-key and chill it is.
Continue ReadingOur friends at the upcoming Long Beach Comic Expo were kind enough to partner with us to give away free tickets. We have two sets of two to give to you!. That’s two FULL weekend passes, good for 2/20 & 21 at the The Long Beach Convention & Exposition Center in Long Beach CA. If that’s in driving distance to you, you should totally enter.
Continue ReadingNew York Comic Con just wrapped up, and GeekDad was there. Tri-State area geeks now have to wait a full year for a major con with A-level guests, right? WRONG! Meet the New Jersey Comic Expo. Information (and savings!) inside.
Continue ReadingA few weeks ago, I was able to attend Manchester Comic Con for the fourth time. The show has grown hugely over the last few years but also has a lot of room left for improvement.
Continue ReadingPart 2 of the Cosplay Round-up from Wizard World Chicago 2015.
Continue ReadingThe transcript of an interview with Marvel and DC artist Mike McKone, taken at the 2015 Motor City Comic Convention in Novi, Michigan.
Continue ReadingA Cosplay round-up from the 2015 Motor City Comic Convention in Novi, Michigan, featuring some outstanding craftsmanship, talent, and passion.
Continue ReadingMotor City Comic Con, Michigan’s largest Comic and Media convention, will be held in the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan, featuring media guests including William Shatner, Gates McFadden, Terry Farrell, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, and Scott Steiner.
Continue ReadingIn today’s episode we mainly talk about Emerald City Comic Con, which I wrote a whole post about, but we also discuss the zoo, the Zoo Webs card game, grandpa’s visit, his special pillow from Grandma Shelly, and a visit to Oma’s house.
Continue ReadingCelebrate St. Patrick’s Day by cosplaying the best (and greenest) of geek culture.
Continue ReadingLast year, a successful Kickstarter campaign resulted in the book ‘Comic Book People: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s,’ a well-received visual history of the first two decades of San Diego’s Comic-Con International. Now, author/photographer Jackie Estrada, administrator of the annual Will Eisner Awards (who is also, with her husband Batton Lash, the co-publisher of Exhibit A Press, which publishes Lash’s comic, ‘Supernatural Law’), has compiled a second volume covering the 1990s.
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to Comic-Con, GeekMom Ariane would rather hit up the Artists’ Alley than the star-studded panels. Here’s a roundup of her favorite artists at SDCC 2014!
Continue ReadingEm-Con was the first event of its kind in the region. I enjoyed myself immensely, however for many attendees, it was a long, long wait.
Continue ReadingThis year, as something of a rite-of-passage, the high school senior and his best friend attended Comic Con NY, sans parentals.
Continue ReadingI spent Thursday through Sunday of last week at what is officially titled Comic-Con International San Diego, but known to geeks, nerds and fanboys the world over as simply “Comic-Con” (other nicknames include SDCC, Geek Pride Week, Nerd Prom, and, before it became cool, many less flattering terms); this four-day event has become the Sundance Festival of genre film, TV, gaming and, oh yeah, comics.
Continue ReadingWith the recent purchase of Lucasfilm by Disney, and with Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel on its way to TV screens in less than a month, it shouldn’t come as an overwhelming surprise that the show will also be the first crossover between Disney’s kids’ shows and the Star Wars universe.
Continue ReadingThere’s a Comic-Con panel Saturday about The Dark Crystal, as well as the launch of the new official Dark Crystal fan site, which includes a pretty cool “The Making Of…” section with production images, photos, and a peek into Jim Henson’s creative process.
Continue ReadingWriter Bob Calhoun’s new tome is Shattering Conventions: Commerce, Cosplay and Conflict on the Expo Floor, an insightful and fun romp through what he calls “temporary worlds created in concrete convention centers and hotel conference rooms.” We chat about his book, his take on Comic-Con, and the days he used to wrestle men in Sasquatch suits while drunks tossed food at him.
Continue ReadingThis week’s iTunes rental of the week is Morgan Spurlock’s Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, a documentary about—you guessed it—Comic-Con International. If you like documentaries about geeky topics, now’s a good time to rent it for a buck!
Continue ReadingJust a few more days until the event known as San Diego Comic-Con hits sunny California! I have my bags packed already and, being one of the premiere collectibles shoppers that hit the con floor, I wanted to know what to look for.
Continue ReadingMiguel Cima wants you to dig comics. The Argentine-born, New York raised filmmaker has a passion for the comics medium, and his desire to share it resulted in a short documentary, Dig Comics, which won the “Best Documentary” award at the San Diego Comic Con Independent Film Festival and was an official selection at Cannes, Vancouver, LA New Filmmakers and a dozen other film festivals. Now Cima has announced a new Kickstarter campaign to raise at least $250,000 for a feature length documentary that will promote comic books to mainstream America.
Continue ReadingComic-Con Fans sought out the limited-edition 6-inch Golden Domo Bobblehead from Mezco in the first-ever Domo shop located within the Dark Horse booth. Thanks to DKC, we have 2 of these limited edition Bobbleheads and an exclusive Domo Comic-Con shirt …
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