Tweet After multiple years of declining quality with their printed outcome – it looks like Wizard Magazine (print edition) has come to an end!  While there has been no official statement from Wizard magazine about this, there are multiple feeds (and more by the minute) confirming layoffs, canceled contracts and that this in fact the [...]

Tweet Wizard World has been eating up the independent comic conventions at an alarming rate – very recently buying NOLA (New Orleans Comic-Con) and the huge Central Canada Comic-Con.  Well, according to our friends across the pond at Bleeding Cool, Wizard has now purchased The Mid-Ohio Convention and is just waiting for the ink to [...]

Tweet So yesterday I posted about The Shat coming to Wizard’s Chicago Comic-Con. I also poked a bit at Wizard buying up so many other comic conventions in the past six months.  Well, it looks like I’m not the only one lifting an eyebrow at Wizard’s bit to corner the convention market. Wizard owner, Gareb [...]

Tweet Wizard’s Chicago Comic Con was the only comic convention I made it to last year. If you don’t remember my feelings on the show, you can read them here. Just to sum up, I was disappointed.  Everyone had rumors flying that Wizard was trying to kill the convention, or just make it ready to [...]

Okay I guess “respecting our 20 year relationship” is a simple euphemism for “I hope someone shows up if I move the date” from Wizardworld.com – Gareb Shamus, CEO of Wizard Entertainment, has made the decision to move Chicago’s largest and longest running Comic Con, to the following week, August 19-22, 2010 due to the [...]

It’s a funny thing.  This year would mark my 5th year subscription to Wizard magazine.  There was time when as soon as I got it, I would consume it… every article, every side note, every letter to the editor and even take a detailed look through the price guide…  I would consume it entirely. And [...]

The Dresden Files: Storm Front #4 (Dabel Brothers Publishing – Butcher / Powers / Syaf / Mohn ) “Surrounded by enemies and distrusted by even his friends, Harry’s efforts to solve a brutal killing are complicated as he finds himself the leading suspect in the crime! Overseen by creator Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files: Storm [...]

GAREB SHAMUS, WIZARD ENTERTAINMENT CEO, ACQUIRES NEW YORK CITY’S LONGEST-RUNNING COMIC BOOK SHOW, BIG APPLE CON, AND IS EXPANDING WITH AN OCTOBER 2009 MEGA-EVENT IN MANHATTAN  The “2009 National” in New York City moves to Pier 94, October 16-18, 2009 New York, NY (April 8, 2009) – Gareb Shamus, CEO of New York-based Wizard Entertainment,  today announced [...]

While this is not news to everyone, those of you that don’t read Wizard on a regular basis might not have caught it. Is Alex Ross an industry icon? a resounding yes! Is Jim Krueger a phenomenal creator and possibly one of the nicest guys you will every meet? Without a doubt! Was Project Superpowers [...]

Congers, NY (February 4, 2009) – Veteran comic scribe Mark Millar is currently setting Hollywood on fire with properties like Wanted and Kick-Ass, and now the Scottish sensation will be meeting and greeting fans at Chicago Comic-Con. Known for his larger-than-life characters and action sequences that make Michael Bay movies look like “A Charlie Brown [...]

Things are tough all over, and apparently not just for the fanboys… from wizardworld.com Congers, NY (January 9, 2009) – Wizard Entertainment announced today that it has postponed its 2009 Wizard World Los Angeles show slated for March 13-15 and cancelled the Wizard World Texas show November 6-8 due to the current economic climate. The [...]

Writer Jason Aaron and Artist Leinil Yu Among The Honoree Congers, NY (November 26th, 2008) –After considering every panel and word balloon printed in the comic book form for the past 12 months, Wizard magazine is pleased to announce their selections for their Best of 2008 list. The list, which makes its debut in the [...]