SDCC: Digital Comics Price Fight

One of the hot topics in the comics industry is the movement into the digital medium, and of course the biggest question in that migration is, “what’s it going to cost?” Sunday afternoon at San Diego Comic-Con, the leading voices in this debate came together to discuss this topic:Mark Waid representing Thrillbent, Scott Kurtz the creator of PvP, IDW Publishing’s ePublishing director Jeff Webber, Chris Ross attending as Top Shelf’s director of digital publications, and moderating the panel is comiXology’s Chip Mosher.Mark Waid was a little late showing up, having just won three Eisner Awards the evening before, and after introducing the panel Chip asked the panelists, “what is the ideal price for digital comics and why?”

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SDCC: Bleeding Alliance of Beat Reporters

For those who don’t know, the Bleeding Alliance of Beat Reporters is four of the biggest names in comic book journalism in one panel held during Thursday evening of San Diego Comic-Con and moderated by another big name in comics journalism, Douglas Wolk. Andy Khouri of Comics Alliance, Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool, Heidi MacDonald of The Beat, and Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter filed into the panel for an evening of talking about their publications and beliefs about other side of the comics industry most people don’t consider often: reporting about it.

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SDCC: Kickstarter Changes Comics

Saturday afternoon Jimmy Palmiotti introduced the panelists, Cindy Au, Vijaya Iver, and Batton Lash, for Kickstarter Changes Comics. Paul Levitz was originally to introduce the panel but he was not in attendance and so Jimmy carried the show more than well enough. The premise for the panel is to help instruct potential Kickstarter users to effectively use the tool to help fund their projects.

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SDCC 12: Cryptozoic demos DC game

We got a chance to look at Cryptozoic’s latest project, the DC Comics Deck Building Game on Thursday morning. Cryptozoic has been a strong presence building geek culture games, adopting Penny Arcade, The Walking Dead, and The Big Bang Theory. Now their aim is to adopt DC’s comic universe into the next big game.

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SDCC: Scott Snyder Interview

Today I spoke with Scott Snyder by the DC Booth at San Diego Comic-Con. I got to talk with him about his work with Batman and how he’s going to bring us the another big event with Greg Capullo and Death of the Family.

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The Road to SDCC: Sunday Schedule

Sundays get a bad rap at San Diego Comic-Con for being the Kid’s Day at the convention. While this is so, they certainly don’t tone down the level of excitment or content because of it. This year at SDCC we’ll be treated to some of the most fan driven programming in the industry. Come see what awaits us this Sunday at SDCC!

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The Road to SDCC: Saturday Schedule

Saturday is the heart of San Diego Comic-Con’s programming. We’re expecting the highest volumes of attendees every hour of the convention getting the scoop on the biggest news across several media industries. Today looks like we’ll be seeing movies strike back from Friday‘s TV landslide numbers. Come see what’s hot on Saturday at SDCC!

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The Road to SDCC: Friday Schedule

We’re starting to get to the thick to the programming as we cover the Friday Schedule for San Diego Comic-Con! At this point even more attendees are lining up to the convention after finishing their regular work weeks or get out of school. The numbers today are going to get high, you’ll clearly see the difference in attendance numbers from yesterday‘s schedule. Come see what’s hot on Friday at SDCC!

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The Road to SDCC: Thursday Schedule

Thursday is the first big day of San Diego Comic-Con. Wednesday evening, Preview Night, was a cake walk and Thursday is when SDCC fires it’s engines in earnest. There are tons of panels, talent and exclusives flying around with even more news covering the mayhem. Come see what you can look forward to Thursday at SDCC 2012!

The Road to SDCC: Wednesday Schedule & Preview Night

Late last week San Diego Comic-Con released their Wednesday schedule alongside their Thursday schedule, officially giving us the beachhead for SDCC 2012. Wednesday evening is Preview Night, giving privileged attendees the chance to sneak in early to nab prized exclusives, it’s also pilot night. Come check out why people get a hold of Preview Night and what’s playing this year!

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