Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
Tag: comic-con
The growing enthusiasm for all things pop culture was on display once again this past weekend at New York Comic Con. The sold-out event, run by the ReedPop unit of Reed Exhibitions, a division of RELX Group (formerly Reed Elsevier), drew its largest crowd ever. The event reported an all-time high attendance of 167,000, up … Continue reading New York Comic Con 2015: Recap and Photo Highlights
This year's Comic-Con International: San Diego was a mix of the new and the familiar, the wonderful and the weird, the carefully planned and the unexpectedly serendipitous. Here are highlights of Comic-Con 2015 from my perspective. The Calm before the Con The hours before badge pick-up on Wednesday afternoon provided the opportunity to stroll around … Continue reading San Diego Comic-Con 2015: Recap and Photo Highlights
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
