Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
Category: Comic-Con Reports
New Jersey Expo Expands While Keeping Focus on Comic Books While Comic-Con International's WonderCon in Anaheim, CA, attracted an estimated 40,000 pop culture fans this past weekend, Asbury Park Comic Con on Saturday offered similar attractions on a smaller scale for East Coast fans. While still modest in size, Asbury Park Comic Con (or, as it … Continue reading Asbury Park Comic Con 2013
This past Sunday, Philadelphia's Locust Moon Comics & Movies hosted their first annual Comics Festival at the Rotunda in West Philadelphia. Unlike many of the larger comic cons, which are chiefly focused around mainstream comics and popular culture, the Locust Moon fest carries on the tradition of the former Philadelphia Alternative Comic Con in showcasing … Continue reading Locust Moon Comics Fest: Philly’s Indie Comic Con
This past weekend fans of comic books, anime, and all things science fiction and fantasy flowed into the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center for New York Comic Con. In the seven years that the ReedPOP division of Reed Elsevier's Reed Exhibitions has run the annual extravaganza, New York Comic Con has become a major pop … Continue reading New York Comic Con 2012: Recap and Photo Highlights
A Photographic Look Back at San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Although the New York Times talked about a sense of "gloom" pervading the halls of Comic-Con this year, people I spoke with were optimistic -- both in terms of the business outlook and the mood of the crowd. (See Knowledge@Wharton, "Comic-Con Shines through the Gloom.") Comic-Con always exhibits … Continue reading San Diego Comic-Con 2012 in Photos
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