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Heading to San Diego Comic Con? How about New York Comic Con? Lucky for you, we’ve been there and done that so we’ve got all the more unique insider tips and tricks in our comic con guides.
These aren’t going to be like the lame grandma guides you see on other sites telling you common sense things like “Check the event schedule to find out when your favorite panels are showing!” No, I was going to just walk into every room in the convention center until I found the panel I was looking for–no shit sherlock!
If you ask this question to different people, you’ll get different answers all around. The best one is the one you personally have the most fun it. For some people it’s the take-over-the-city San Diego Comic Con. For others it’s the cool metropolitan New York Comic Con. Others may like smaller, more intimate local conventions.
There’s a few comic conventions in particular that we visit:
If you don’t know, I happen to live in San Jose where we have a new comic convention (only in it’s third year) taking place downtown this weekend (Friday, April 6 -Sunday, April 8). Silicon Valley Comic Con is an upstart convention, unaffiliated with any of the other big names like SDCC or NYCC, that […]
If you’ve been to any SDCC or are into nerdy podcasts, you’ve probably heard of Nerdist. Every year at San Diego Comic Con, there’s usually some large sponsored party, offsite event, or other fun thing with the Nerdist brand in tow. Showrunner and founder of the Nerdist Chris Hardwick is well known in pop culture […]
[UPDATED ON 10/2/17 – CHECK THURS, FRI, SAT, SUN] Going to New York Comic Con this year? I am and I’m a bit of a party nerd so I was looking for the NYCC nightlife, but there really wasn’t any lists of NYCC 2017 parties or night time events so I decided to compile my […]
As a Marvel Legends toy collector, I’m excited for the direction Hasbro has taken with their San Diego Comic-Con exclusives this year. The sets always felt like they were just gobbled up by resellers who spent their days standing in line just to purchase collectibles that they have no intention of keeping. But hey, if […]
My name is Steven Krimmel and I’m an actor and independent filmmaker. I have been going to San Diego Comic-Con since 2007 and I’ve only missed one year from then until now. I love it, even though it’s certainly grown since the beginning, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting the high of being surrounded […]
I’ve been going to San Diego Comic Con for almost 10 years now, so you could say I’m a veteran. I’ve learned a lot about optimizing my own personal fun-times at Comic-Con, so just in time for SDCC 2017 I’m sharing my personal tips for not being a scrub. This SDCC guide should be applicable […]
We went to a cosplay contest for dogs and we found a bunch of cute dog costumes. Silicon Valley Comic Con feels like home to many attendees who come dressed in full cosplay outfits. That doesn’t mean only humans dress up because lazy attendees who don’t really wanna dress themselves up can just torture their canine […]
On Tuesday, after a flag raising ceremony at San Jose City Hall involving the hoisting of the official Silicon Valley Comic Con flag up to the glorified heights of the glass civic dome, I had the chance to sit down briefly with Trip Hunter, CEO of Silicon Valley Comic Con, for an interview. We spoke outside […]
Just a quick PSA for anyone in the the local area (SF Bay Area) that Silicon Valley Comic Con 2017 is this weekend in downtown San Jose at multiple venues. I’m actually located in San Jose, so I’ll likely stop by check out some of the festivities. The con is in it’s sophomore year and […]
I received a nice little email reminder/notification from ReedPop, the organizers behind New York Comic Con, about 2017 NYCC fan verification, their process for weeding out scalpers. In case you don’t know, NYCC is the strongest contender for SDCC’s current crown of the top comics/popular media convention in the United States. The size in attendance […]