Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Fan Expo Coverage
Over decade ago when the Canadian Fan Expo made the big leap to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) I really didn’t like our booth placement on the convention floor. We were placed out of the “comic book alley” where…
Sitting back for a moment and really considering this past weekend’s event, it’s difficult to be particularly upset with Hobbystar’s event planning. Despite a Toronto Star report citing the displeasure of several thousand fans who waited in line until 3…
Panel: C.B. Cebulski, Axel Alonzo, Leonard Kirk, Nick Lowe, Arune Singh. I am not a regular reader of X-Men. I really like the X-Men but I don’t read it (my theory is if you read one X-Men title, you need…
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Burlesque Poison Ivy For entire Fan Expo 2012 photo set on Flickr, click…
DC Entertainment All Access Sunday Today, on the last day of Fan Expo, I decided to hit up the DC Entertainment panel. They have been having these panels all weekend and each day they have covered a different topic or…
Here’s the full audio from the Fan Expo 2012 panel Creating Comics For Younger Readers. Join Willow Dawson (Hyena in Petticoats), Scott Chantler (Three Thieves), Faith Erin Hicks (Bigfoot Boy), and Jack Briglio (Growing Up Enchanted) for a discussion about…
Here’s the full audio from the Fan Expo 2012 panel It Came From The Great White North: Canada’s Award Winning Graphic Novels. From the Eisners to the Harveys, Canada’s cartoonists are taking the world by storm with some of the…
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Harley Quinn …
Panel: Axel Alonzo, Dan Slott, Ryan Stegman, Steve Wacker and Arune Singh Marvel started off saying that they are really excited for Spider-Man during the next couple of months. The beginning of the excitement for Marvel and Spider-Man was issue…
PHOTO OF THE DAY: The Ring …
Chewing the Fat: Chew Q&A with Layman and Guillory panel I was pretty excited to go to this panel. It was really the only one I wanted to go to today (Friday) so, I got off the expo floor early…
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Clark Kent For…
Hobbystar just sent an email that attendance for Fan Expo 2011 was 77,840, unofficially making it the third largest comic convention in North America after San Diego and New York. Crowd control was smooth this year: organized lines managed by…
I’ll be the first to admit that, by Sunday, I was muttering Roger Murtaugh’s (Danny Glover) catchphrase from the Lethal Weapon films. Apart from wondering how the hell I got so old so quickly, I ended up having a great…
Saturday had to be, by far, the busiest of all four days. I’m not the biggest fan of wall-to-wall people, so I was really happy to have been able to sit in on panels for most of the day. Panel…
I attended Fan Expo 2011 Thursday and Saturday. I was there Thursday early to get my name on the list of artist commissions and Saturday to feel the show at its busiest and pick up my art. The rest of…
Overall, Fan Expo 2011 was a positive experience for me. The programming was diverse and I think it had something for everyone. I’d like to see the official attendance numbers for this year. As a guess, I think it matched…
I attended quite a few panels at Fan Expo. Here are my comments on them. THURSDAY Ethan Phillips He played Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager. His Q&A panel started at 4:00 PM on Thursday right when Fan Expo officially opened. …