Tag Archive | "San Diego Comic Con"

Torchwood SDCC panel

Monday, July 25, 2011

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Nice long video recording of the Torchwood panel at the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con: Torchwood SDCC 2011 Panel from treena on Vimeo.

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Comic-Con – Tintin & Spider-Man discussed

Monday, July 25, 2011

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Videos are emerging from the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con and the FirstShowing.net guys have a couple up discussing their reactions to footage from the eagerly anticipated Tintin movie and The Amazing Spider-Man: Adventures of Tintin Comic-Con Video Blog from FirstShowing.net on Vimeo. Amazing Spider-Man Comic-Con Video Blog from FirstShowing.net on Vimeo.

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Black comics

Friday, November 26, 2010

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Floyd Webb has posted up video of a part of the Black Comics Panel from this year’s San Diego Comic Con, which as he notes has grown over the years from being a panel about black people in comics to being a forum for discussion about black influence in all sorts of media. The panel [...]

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Is Comic-Con really hurting nerd culture?

Thursday, July 29, 2010

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Inspired by a conversation with PvP creator Scott Kurtz, actor, comics fan and all-round proper geek Wil Wheaton, writing on Techland, ponders accusations that the changes to San Diego Comic Con over the years (from an actual comics-type comic-con to one where Hollywood studios descend en-masse and the huge increase in people attending means ordinary [...]

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More Walking Dead

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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Following the videos of the Walking Dead TV series panel at San Diego Comic Con we blogged about a few days ago, Matt Staggs points us to Suvudu who has video reports with the cast and crew of the show from a press only panel. Have I mentioned how much I’m looking forward to this [...]

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Your pretty damned comprehensive SDCC guide

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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Comic Reporter‘s Tom Spurgeon has the pretty damned definitive and comprehensive, cut out and keep survival guide to the San Diego Comic Con, from tickets (forget it if you don’t have them already) to how to stay safe if a trio of bad-ass Kryptonians fly in the windows and demand you all kneel before Zod. [...]

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Shel Dorf remembered

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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Mark Evanier remembers Shel Dorf who passed away this week, founder of one of the most famous comics gatherings in the world, the San Diego Comic Con: “It was his friendship with so many heroes that led him to help put on the Detroit Triple Fan-Fairs in the sixties and then, when he moved to [...]

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San Diego Comic Con – the biggest and best writeups….

Sunday, August 9, 2009

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We have comic conventions over here in the UK. They’re relatively small, pleasant things. Full of people with a love for comic books and a great place to spend all night getting drunk networking with fans and comic folk in the bars afterwards. America also has comic conventions. These appear to be huge things, requiring [...]

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Joel’s SDCC report

Monday, August 3, 2009

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Tripwire supremo Joel Meadows has recovered sufficiently from his transatlantic jet-lag to start posting up his recollections and pictures from the recent San Diego Comic Con, with parts one and two already up on his blog. (Top Shelf’s Chris Staros with Rober Venditti at SDCC, pic borrowed from Joel Meadows’ blog)

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Torchwood at Comic Con

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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YouTube user Aronoel619 has posted up the first part of a video recording the Torchwood panel at the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con (link via TARDIS Newsroom):

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Eisner Award winners

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Over the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con this year’s Eisner Awards were announced and as well as winners from the bigger publishers like DC, Marvel and Dark Horse its good to see some of the quality Indy presses like Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics all scoring too: Best Short Story: “Murder He Wrote,” [...]

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Doctor Who at ComicCon

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Via the TARDIS Newsroom come a link to the first of 4 parts of a video of the Doctor Who panel at the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con, which is rather handy for those of us who couldn’t be there, with Russell T Davies and David Tennant. Very nice to see Who at such a [...]

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Eric Powell video interview at SDCC

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Via the TFAW blog comes this brief video with Eric Powell, creator of the brilliant Goon series, at the San Diego Comic Con: TFAW seem to be setting up a number of video reports from SDCC, so its probably worth checking in on their YouTube channel over the coming weekend. Especially if those giant squid [...]

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Animated Owly!

Monday, July 13, 2009

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Top Shelf’s Chris Staros tells us that Andy Runton‘s wonderful Owly comics characters (solid favourites with a number of us here) has been animated by Sprite Animation Studios and the cartoon will debut at the San Diego Comic Con later this month, where fans will be able to drop by the Top Shelf booth to [...]

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Farscape at SD Comic-Con

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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SciFiCool has good news for fans of the brilliant (and much missed) cult show Farscape: series creator Rockne O’Bannon will be at the San Diego Comic-Con later this month, along with two of the series’ stars (and long-running candidates in SFX mag’s annual ‘sexiest people in SF’ poll) Ben ‘tight leather pants’ Browder and the [...]

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