Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
Tag: 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
NYCC Features Big Numbers and Big-Name Celebrities In the nine years of ReedPop's New York Comic Con, the convention has become a major event in the popular culture landscape, challenging Comic Con International's San Diego Comic Con as the preeminent pop culture event in the U.S. Numbers and Numbers: Apples and Oranges This year New … Continue reading New York Comic Con 2014: Bigger and Better
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