Looks like the good traffic at Friday’s Wizard World Madison bodes well for the future of the show — according to spokesman Jerry Milani, the show “will be back, dates pending.” “Thousands of fans” attended over the show’s three days. Sadly, I wasn’t able to get back, having caught a cold on Friday that kept me home the rest of the weekend. An article in today’s paper expands on the experience: “It’s been everything we were hoping for and more,” […]

The Sequential iPad app has some of the best-known graphic novel publishers in their catalog, and now they’ve added another: Dark Horse. Not all of the publisher’s titles will be available, but the first round of additions include The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, Will Eisner’s Fagin the Jew, Bryan Talbot’s Grandville Noël, and Canales and Guarnido’s Blacksad with “many more titles” to follow. Dark Horse also publishes Usagi Yojimbo and Sin City, which would be […]

KC and I went down to Wizard World Madison this afternoon, and there were more people than I thought there’d be. I wasn’t sure Madison was yet a town for a three-day show, but it seems a number of people came to the event, with more showing up as we got closer to after school and after work. This is clearly a first-year show. Registration was disorganized, taking place in a separate building from the actual show floor (except for […]

Following from Tuesday’s post, here’s more information on how the local media are covering the show. Wednesday’s paper has the Capital Times tabloid-format insert. The CapTimes used to be a separate publication, but now it’s a political/entertainment-focused addition. The back page looked like this: As you’ll notice, there are no women here. Although since the most-promoted female guests are the wrestling-associated Bella Twins, maybe that’s a good thing. There was also a full-page William Shatner interview in this section. Elsewhere […]