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Comic conventions: a comprehensive guide to all of the major upcoming comic cons
There are comic conventions happening weekly around the world - here's a list of many of them, so you can make plans to be there yourself!
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Free! Watch the full Leigh Bardugo and Dani Pendergast panel from at NYCC 2022 for free!
Demon in the Wood takes the stage at the Javits Center as author Leigh Bardugo and Dani Pendergast take fan questions.
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Romance author Chuck Tingle on how his audience "saved" him
"I just want to say, from the bottom of my heart, before I get too dang emotional: you have all saved my life.”
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When is Disney's D23 Expo? Looking into the future of Disney, Lucasfilm, and Marvel's landmark event
After 140k people attended 2022's D23 Expo by Disney, the next question is simple: when can we do it again?
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Watch live! Livestream the Disney+ Goosebumps panel from New York Comic Con 2023
R.L. Stine's legendary tales of terror are coming to Disney+, after they make a stop at New York Comic Con. Watch the panel here, presented by DoorDash.
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Watch live! NYCC 2023: Watch the Disney+ Percy Jackson and the Olympians panel live!
Upcoming Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians is at New York Comic Con 2023, and you can watch the panel here, brought to you by Tumblr. Welcome back.
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Neil Gaiman almost prevented Terry Pratchett’s unfinished work from being steamrolled (almost)
Pratchett’s biographer Rob Wilkins shared this strange story of carrying out Terry Pratchett's wishes with fans at MCM 2022
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Good Omens season 2: What Aziraphale's plight says about religion and goodness
Good Omens season 2 tempts the audience to question what they've been taught
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A new Meg book takes everything you love about the Meg movies, and gives you more
The Meg creator Steve Alten explained about the new boxset on Enter the Popverse
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Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage are coming to prose starting in 2024, thanks to Marvel Crime
The new line comes from Marvel and Disney sibling, Hyperion Avenue
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The Meg creator Steve Alten boards a shark-themed Enter the Popverse
Prose novelist and The Meg creator Steve Alten comes to talk about the franchise ahead of The Meg 2: The Trench
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Get ready, the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con dates have been confirmed (and its a busy weekend)
What are you doing in late July 2024, anyway? We're doing Comic-Con International: San Diego
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SDCC 2023: What to expect at San Diego Comic-Con this year
Everything you need to know about this year's San Diego Comic-Con
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A Game of Thrones con has been canceled due to Florida's latest laws
Westeros ain't got nothing on Florida, according to the organizers of a major Game of Thrones convention
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Andrzej Sapkowski The Witcher reading order: How to read Andrzej Sapkowski's books in chronological and release order
There are Three Different Ways to Read the Witcher—Chronologically, Original print order and by U.S. release order.
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Miami! Get ready for the next Florida Supercon, as we have the 2024 FSC dates
Florida Supercon is heading back to Miami next July. Here are the deets.
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If you like Indiana Jones, you'll love these recommended comics, movies, and TV shows
Before, after, or during your Indiana Jones lovefest, here are some other movies, TV, shows and comics you'll enjoy
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SDCC 2023: Just how much would it take to go to San Diego Comic-Con?
Hopefully you have a couple thousand dollars handy if you want to attend Comic-Con International: San Diego
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MCM Birmingham returns in winter 2023 - Here's the dates for the UK show!
MCM is returning to Birmingham, England this winter - but with later dates than you might expect.
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Queer romance novels to read this summer
It's Pride! It's beach read season! Check out these amazing novels.
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One of America's greatest novelists, Cormac McCarthy, has died at age 89
Cormac McCarthy may be dead, but his stories are too tough to die.
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Yes, we are livestreaming the McElroys family's NYCC 2023 panels!
Be there from anywhere with Popverse's convention panel livestreams.
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Popverse: Year One - our most popular articles, as decided by YOU!
From controversy in comics to cartoons that make you say 'Woooo!', Popverse's first year was great. Here are the most popular news, panels, features, and guides from year one.
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Dog Man is the perfect introduction to comics, especially Grant Morrison's
Could Dav Pilkey's wildly successful book series be even more meta than Morrison?
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Popverse: Year One - the big surprises, the big successes, and the big deals you should know about
It's the first birthday of our tour guide to pop culture, Popverse
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Game of Thrones: Everything we know (so far) about The Winds of Winter
There's a lot we don't know about The Winds of Winter, but here's everything we do know.
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We've just made it easier for you to keep up with your favourite things
Spend less time searching for the things you love, and more time reading about them.
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Bay Area comic convention SiliCon cancels this year's event due to "financial hardship"
Reports indicate one of SiliCon's major financial backers pulled out of this year's event
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Los Angeles Comic Con boasts it beat all its area competitors to be the biggest in the LA area
Los Angeles Comic Con says it just bested others as the biggest LA-area comic convention around
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ReedPop VP (and Popverse co-founder) Mike Armstrong is exiting the company after nearly 14 years
After nearly 14 years, ReedPop's Mike Armstrong is leaving the company
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Fan Expo St. Louis quietly canceled after nine-year run
As Fan Expo St. Louis closes its doors, St. Louis loses its annual comic convention
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Comic con on a cruise ship? It's coming in 2024
Comic convention + cruise ship? Imagine it all, especially the cosplay with Comic Con Cruise
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Thrawn: Everything you need to know about the Star Wars Grand Admiral and upcoming villain of Ahsoka
Grand Admiral Thrawn makes his live action debut in the upcoming Ahsoka series on Disney +, but it's hardly his first Star Wars.
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Brazil's CCXP announces 2023 dates - and its earlier in the year than previous years
The Brazilian event, the biggest comic festival in the Americas, will take place November 30 through December 3
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C2E2 2023: Watch most of the big panels on VOD, read the biggest news, and more thanks to Popverse
It's time to make our way to Chicago for one of our favorite comic conventions
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WonderCon 2024 dates are announced (and its slightly later next year)
The LA area's big comic convention, WonderCon, is returning in 2024
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Dog Man creator Dav Pilkey has created an all new comic just for indie bookstores
Indie bookstores in the US, Canada and the UK have an exclusive free comic waiting for fans...
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Emerald City Comic Con: All the greatest coverage from Popverse at the first big convention of 2023!
Springtime in Seattle, and Popverse is back on the convention circuit with the 20th annual Emerald City Comic Con
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Popverse's Ashley V. Robinson joins the LA Shakespeare cabaret Shakes on the Rocks
It's Shakespeare, but faster, funnier, and with a two-drink minimum
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Popverse celebrates Black creators and characters for Black History Month
Looking for some awesome articles to read? Check out these great Popverse articles this Black History Month and beyond.
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Game of Thrones books: How to read a Song of Ice and Fire in order (chronological and release)
Everything you need to know to read the stories which inspired Game of Thrones and its spinoffs, whether chronologically or in release order.
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Spring in Seattle: What to do when you're in town for Emerald City Comic Con
What to do near the Seattle Convention Center
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What are we all enjoying this weekend?
The TV, movies, and comics that the Popverse team is planning on checking out this weekend
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Premium Access Watch as Brandon Sanderson, Alex Aster, Alina Boyden, Wesley Chu, and GennaRose Nethercott talk fantasy at NYCC 2022!
Watch the full Improbable Imaginings: AKA Flights of Fantasy Fiction panel from New York Comic Con 2022
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Op Ed: Is it ever okay to work for free as a creator?
Everyone has heard the adage "Don't work for free," but does that advice always apply?
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What are we all enjoying this weekend?
The TV, movies, and comics that the Popverse team is planning on checking out this weekend
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Morning tea with the Outlander cast proves fandom is still thirsty and alive at NYCC 2022
Fandom is alive and well for those in the time traveling Scotsman business.
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Comics vet Cullen Bunn is bringing the horror with his new Outer Shadows imprint
The new line at indie publisher Outland Entertainment will feature comics, prose, and more
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What are we all enjoying this weekend?
The comics, TV, and movies that the Popverse team is planning on check out this weekend
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Looking ahead at 2023 with Popverse
Popverse Editor-in-Chief Chris Arrant gives you a preview of what's to come in 2023 at Popverse
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The Los Angeles Public Library brings library cards and free short stories to L.A. Comic Con
The Los Angeles Library had a big booth full of fun surprises at this year's L.A. Comic Con
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Mary Pope Osborne chats Magic Tree House, graphic novels, and literacy
Time travel and tree houses: An interview with Mary Pope Osborne
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Premium Access R.L. Stine terrorizes NYCC - stream his Goosebumps panel here!
Watch as R.L. Stine looks back on three decades of Goosebumps. Watcher beware, you’re in for a scare!
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Federal judge blocks merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster
On Monday, Judge Florence Pan blocked the proposed merger between two publishing industry giants
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Streaming Video Watch Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells record Intentionally Blank podcast at NYCC!
Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson and horror author Dan Wells are at the Javits Center recording a live episode of their hit podcast, Intentionally Blank
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Premium Access Watch - Lucasfilm Publishing presents Star Wars: Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Get transported across space and time as the creators behind today’s biggest Star Wars stories share their experiences and hint at what’s to come.
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Premium Access Outlander creator Diana Gabaldon holds court in packed NYCC 2022 panel - watch the entire thing!
Outlander author and New York Times bestseller Diana Gabaldon heads to Room 401 in the Javits Center - watch Popverse’s coverage here!
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Premium Access Watch Omar Epps speak about Nubia: The Awakening at this year's NYCC
Star of silver screen Omar Epps spoke at NYCC about telling the Afrofuturist story Nubia: The Awakening
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Premium Access BookTok is at London Comic Con - watch the panel here!
Travis Baldree, Tiffani Angus, and Tasha Suri head to London for a panel on the uses TikTok has for readers and writers.
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Writing Tips from Brandon Sanderson
Want to Learn to Be a Better Writer? Brandon Sanderson was at NYCC with lots of suggestions
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Highlight Video Re-live the best of New York Comic Con 2022 with NYCC Insider from Popverse
See the best from the NYCC 2022 show floor, the biggest stages, and backstage with Popverse's NYCC Insider 2022
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2022's most terrifying tales to read this Halloween season
Six scary comics and two prose novels for your Halloween reading list
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At NYCC, Shadow and Bone's Leigh Bardugo has rediscovered that books are important
Author Leigh Bardugo reflects on 10 years in the Grishaverse, the perils of adaptation, and learning to let people you trust take the wheel.
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Premium Access FX brings Mallori Johnson and the cast of Kindred to NYCC for Q&A and exclusive footage - watch it on Popverse
Octavia Butler’s time-warping drama Kindred is headed to FX this fall, but not before stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, Sophina Brown and Sheria Irving join executive producer and writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on stage in Room 405.
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Premium Access Brandon Sanderson is at NYCC for a reading and Q&A, watch it here!
Author of the Mistborn series and Stormlight Archive is onstage in Room 405 for a reading and to answer some fans’ burning questions. Don’t miss it.
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Premium Access Watch Brandon Sanderson, Diana Gabaldon, Terry Brooks, Shawn Speakman from NYCC's Titans of Fantasy panel live!
Brandon Sanderson, Diana Gabaldon, and Terry Brooks are taking over Room 405 at the Javits Center to discuss what it’s like creating far-off and magical worlds
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Premium Access Shadow and Bone's Leigh Bardugo takes the stage at NYCC ‘22
A decade after Shadow and Bone invaded bookstores everywhere, creator of the Grishaverse Leigh Bardugo heads to the Javits Center for a retrospective and look at what’s to come.
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Fan Fiction: How to (and why you SHOULD) read fan fic
TLDR on 'How to read fan fic?': Carefully, then voraciously.
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Premium Access Watch fantasy authors Tracy & Laura Hickman bring their stories to life with Dragonhearth panel at ECCC 2022
Watch the full Emerald City Comic Con 2022 panel Dragonhearth live with Tracy & Laura Hickman
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Grant Morrison on the differences between Luda's Luci and The Invisibles' Lord Fanny
Yes, both are gender queer magicians, but as Morrison explains, there's a lot more that's different than similar between them
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Marvel, DC, VIZ, HBO Max, Star Trek, The Walking Dead, more lead New York Comic Con 2022 big panels
Outlander, DC, Star Trek, Marvel, and more (including Weird Al) are coming to NYCC 2022
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SDCC 2023: Learn the story behind San Diego Comic Con with Matthew Klickstein's oral history
The man behind See You at San Diego talks about the interviews, people, and stories behind the exhaustive new book
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Full Panel Video Watch D23 Expo 2022's Disney Legends Awards Ceremony live!
Disney CEO Bob Chapek reveals the 2022 Disney Legends award winners - along with a few surprises
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Premium Access "It's about a way of seeing that transforms the world": Grant Morrison on Luda and everything else
The iconic writer talks about their first prose novel, drag, what fills the nothingness at the heart of things, and growing old gracefully
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Who is the Stranger from Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power?
Our five picks on who Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power's The Stranger is
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Premium Access Watch Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe lead Outlander cast & crew in talk about show from New York Comic Con 2021
Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, John Bell, Lauren Lyle, Cesar Domboy, Diana Gabaldon and Maril Davis talk about Outlander
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Premium Access Kat Leyh, LL McKinney, and Margaret Owen talk about how queer stories are here to stay at ECCC '22
Watch the full 'Queer Stories are Here to Stay' panel from Emerald City Comic Con 2022 with LL McKinney, Kat Leyh, and Margaret Owen
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Premium Access Watch the Norse mythology panel Tales from Yggdrasil from Emerald City Comic Con 2022
Get schooled on Norse mythology with Nerds know in ECCC's Tales from Yggdrasil panel
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Premium Access Learn the art and science behind building worlds and characters from Janet Lee and Amy Chu at ECCC '22!
Watch the two acclaimed creators discuss the secrets behind creating new worlds live from the comfort of your own home
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Novelist Marissa Meyer spills the bean on her writing secrets (and secret origin) at ECCC '22
The Lunar Chronicles and Gilded author shared all with fans at the Seattle convention
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Adam Cesare on his Clown in a Cornfield sequel and why he loves teen horror
Adam Cesare on Clown in a Cornfield 2, slasher sequels, and why clowns are still scary
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Premium Access Kami Garcia, Alys Arden, LL McKinney, Isaac Goodhart, and Julio Anta talk the Art of Collaboration in YA for ECCC '22 panel
Watch the Art of the Collaboration (YA Edition) panel with Kami Garcia, Alys Arden, LL McKinney, Isaac Goodhart, and Julio Anta from Emerald City Comic Con
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Premium Access Punk rock paleontologist Jingmai O’Connor digs into the the fact and fiction of dinosaurs at C2E2 2022
Field Museum curator Jingmai O'Connor delivers 'Digging for Dinos: Bringing The Cutting Edge To The Far Flung Past'
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Save the date: The Chicago comic convention C2E2 has revealed its 2023 dates
The Chicago staple C2e2 returns in 2023 - and returns to spring!
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