Four-day Comic-Con passes run over $200 and are harder to find than a Vulcan jokebook, but several more accessible Con-themed events are happening off-site. Wednesday, July 20 will feature the Superheroes and Villains theme party …
July 14, 2022
Articles by Jamie Gardner
2022 Comic-Con goings-on: visit Toro, House of Blues, American Junkie, and other nightclubs for theme parties
“They're looting the Vons, and I’m standing right there" - La Mesa neighbors react
There have been differing opinions about how the police reacted to violence from some participants at the protest in front of La Mesa police headquarters, near where I live. The teargas went across the crowd …
May 31, 2020
RIP Robert Scott, Comickaze Comics operator
Robert Scott, longtime operator of San Diego’s Comickaze Comics, has reportedly passed away. The former department store manager opened his Clairemont Comickaze store in the early '90s, an era when comic publishing, distribution, and retailing …
December 4, 2019
RIP local comic book creator Batton Lash (Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre)
His local Exhibit A Press published Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre and others
January 13, 2019
Comic-Con cosplayer did not “fall”
The media were already publishing articles about females being sexually harassed at comic-book conventions when a 17-year-old cosplayer (going by the cosplay name of Milly Makara) was found unconscious and injured in the early-morning hours …
August 9, 2014