Comic-Con

The start of March has brought Comic-Con to Toronto. A giant weekend convention that tours 14 Major Cities across America annually, and Tours Toronto, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Winnipeg, and Vancouver in that equation to.

 

 Comic-Con over the years has grown into a sweeping phenomena, it was once just a comic book convention, but has grown to include other aspects in the entertainment genre this includes Anime, Videogames, Television & Movies.


The connection is easy to see, the stories, and characters from comic books has cross pollinated into these mediums, and in various categories, like in Sci-Fi, Action, Horror, Comedy, & Romance.

 2014 will continue to see Comic-con oversees in the UK, Mumbai, New Delhi and Bucharest. 



The Biggest News to be released  this year is a 24/7 Comic-Con Channel. featuring content in all of the above genre and categories.

 Wizard World Comic-Con's
 the company that runs the pop culture multimedia conventions, have 16 comic-cons planned for 2014, they have partnered with Cinedigm to produce the new channel.
 Its a year round free-to-consumer, advertising-supported streaming.  Meaning its a channel available on-line.  Now there is also the  premium subscription options. Which is a bummer, it a paid service that provides access to Comic con Events, Panels and talent. So the cool Q&A Sessions and Screenings would not be available to the free consumer.  Cinedigm's have placed there film library on the network, which is said to include 33,000 Films and TV episodes and many digital content from various partners.   PLEASE NOTE: the Channel WILL NOT INCLUDE   Comic-Con San Diego.

In Toronto, we have FanExpo, who sponsored this recent Comic-con.

FanExpo is basically. a Comic-Con that has a heavy hand in celebrity / fan interaction.  With an event in April in Vancouver (April 18-20)  and a convention in August, in Toronto (August 28-31)