Archive for the ‘Local Events’ Category

Support your local comic book conventions! Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, bi-monthly, www.comicbookscifi.com Frank & Son Comic and Card Show, Wednesdays & Saturdays www.yelp.com/biz/frank-and-son-collectibles-show-city-of-industry California Comic Book Convention Jan 29  www.CalComicCon.com Wondercon Mar 16-18 www.comic-con.org/wc Long Beach Comic Expo May 12  www.longbeachcomiccon.com Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con  www.wizardworld.com/home-anaheim.html San Diego Comic Convention International Jul 11-15 www.comic-con.org/cci So Cal ... Full story

Best Buy in El Segundo/Manhattan Beach is offering FREE pre-ordering for some of the biggest video game titles coming out in the next few months, including Batman: Arkham City! They'll even be having midnight release events for Arkham City and Gears of War 3! Gears of War 3 - September 20th (come out ... Full story

Join the Comic Bug at the West Hollywood Book Fair Sunday, October 2nd! Once again, we'll have our tent set up and sharing our comics obsession with the regular joe book-loving crowd of West Hollywood and beyond. Food, fun, celebrity appearances and signings, discussions with your favorite ... Full story

The Comic Bug will be hosting the Superhero Star Party at the AES Seaside Cinema Redondo Beach Community Nights FREE Outdoor Movie Screening Series! The featured movie will be Megamind on Friday, July 29th. Megamind is an animated film for the whole family that features the ... Full story

Marvel Comics has announced a New Year’s Eve Eve Party, a December 30 (Skip Week) promotion allowing retailers to offer customers exciting items from the House of Ideas that are perfect for ushering in a new year of comic reading.  Fall of the Hulks Alpha, Ed McGuinness Variant.  ORIGINS OF SEIGE #1.  SIEGE is almost upon us! And ... Full story

Monday, October 19th from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.  MAKIN' COMICS SEMINAR with Mike Wellman and Rafael Navarro at the Redondo Beach Library.  Many folks come to The Comic Bug wondering how they too can be a successful, multi-thousand dollar comic creator like our own Mike Wellman.  Well, come on down to the Redondo Beach Library ... Full story

Hey, look, more movie robots smacking each other around! In regular theaters and Decepticon-sized IMAX June 24th! Full story

I'm pretty sure that Hasbro is making the toys for nearly every big movie this summer (okay, not Star Trek or Terminator Salvation). Between Wolverine, Transformers, and GI Joe, they could stand to make a pile of money. Gosh, I hope none of these movie suck. Full story

Christian Bale is John Connor in the new Terminator film, set in the future, after Judgement Day. Go see this film. Just don't walk through Bale's eyeline. I hear he hates that. Full story

Kirk and Spock are back, but much younger and with their real hair this time around. Catch it in regular theaters and IMAX. Full story