Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
Category: Comic-Con Reports
San Diego Comic-Con, the largest popular culture festival in the U.S., is exciting, illuminating, and crowded. Very crowded. And it's confusing. With so many overlapping events competing for an attendee's time, planning your schedule and determining the optimal time to queue up for specific events requires the logic of a chess master. [See Knowledge@Wharton, San … Continue reading Be a Con-trarian: Go Against the Flow at Comic-Con
ReedPop's Spring Counterpart to New York Comic Con If the current mania for pop culture is poised to plateau, there was no sign of it at this past weekend's Special Edition: NYC. The line waiting to enter Special Edition: NYC 2015 on a rainy Saturday morning. On the first drizzly morning of the two-day event, … Continue reading Special Edition NYC 2015
ReedPop's BookCon 2015 Returns to the Javits Center This past weekend the second annual BookCon, a conference and exhibition for book lovers, was held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. The two-day event followed three days of Book Expo America, otherwise known as BEA, a long-running event for publishing industry insiders. Last year … Continue reading BookCon: It’s Like Comic Con for Book Lovers
Wizard World, which hosts more than two dozen comic cons around the U.S. each year, returned to the Philadelphia Convention Center this past weekend with Philadelphia's largest pop culture convention. Wizard World doesn't provide specific attendance numbers other than to say that Philadelphia Comic Con attendance was in the "tens of thousands," positioning the event … Continue reading Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con 2015: Recap and Photo Highlights
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