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Today San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) released the schedule of panels and events for Sunday, July 23rd of the 2017 convention experience. We shared Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and now Sunday’s schedule with you in the hopes it’ll help make your SDCC experience a little more organized. These are the official listings as posted on Comic-Con International’s […]

It is with a heavy heart we report on the passing of Joan Lee, the exceptional woman who had been married to comics legend Stan Lee for almost 70 years.  Joan was 93 years young, and still had that bright spark that caught Stan’s eye.  He’d routinely *still* introduce her at events as his “trophy wife” with […]

We are currently 2 weeks out from San Diego Comic Con (SDCC), the largest gathering of pop culture celebration in the United States.  Historically, this means the rolling out of the year’s scheduled panels, events, and so forth. 2017 is no different, and Comic Con International released the Thursday July 20th of SDCC schedule. Yes, we’re […]

Even as events continue to try to dial in better dates for their respective regions, the convention calendar continues to get more crowded by the day. One of the Midwest’s longer-running conventions, Planet Comicon Kansas City, has announced new, far earlier dates than what it had in recent years: President’s Day weekend, February 16th–18th. That […]

The last weekend of June/first few days of July means one thing to Los Angeles anime aficionados, Anime Expo (AX). The convention is large, one of the largest for anime on the west coast, pulling in close to 110,000 attendees annually. You may have seen some of the hellish visions of the lines outside the […]

Every single year, there are rumors that CCI (Comic Con International) will be leaving their home at the San Diego Convention Center after that year’s SDCC (San Diego Comic Con). With attendance around 130,000 in recent years, it comes as no surprise that the company was looking at alternative locations to house the premiere pop […]

The future of humor laden MAD Magazine has seemed uncertain. In the current age of digital comics and changing media landscape, MAD continues to publish their satire rich funny papers under the roof of DC Comics. Today, it was announced that Bill Morrison will be stepping into the editor’s chair, making him only the 5th editor […]

Remember that story that was making the rounds a few days ago about John Carpenter working on some new good ol Jack Burton stories?  Of course, some sites had to run their headline like it was a new film or tv show or something, but the meat of the story was that yes, there is more […]

Wizard World’s annual tour has again returned to Sacramento, where thousands of fans will be descending on the Sacramento Convention Center through Sunday evening. We headed out there today to take in some of the sights, a few panels, and to generally see how it all felt as the event is now entering it’s fourth […]

On any given weekend across the world, chances are at least a handful of pop-culture and comic con conventions taking place. Fandoms are as varied and wide reaching as the internet will allow, and thankfully we’re lucky enough to have the outlet of conventions to gather together with fellow nerds to celebrate what we love. […]