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Anaheim Comic Con 2011 dates announced

Media Release -- Following a successful debut at the 2010 Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con, Wizard Entertainment CEO Gareb Shamus today announced that the event will return to the Anaheim Convention Center, April 29 through May 1, 2011. Read more
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Wizard World Announces New Spring Comic Con In NYC

Media Release -- Gareb Shamus, CEO of Wizard Entertainment, today announced the addition of a Spring event, Comic Con NYC, set for May 6-8, 2011 at the newly renovated Penn Plaza Pavilion in New York. Read more
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Gareb Shamus turns ComiCONN into Wizard World Connecticut Comic Con

Media Release -- Gareb Shamus, CEO of Wizard Entertainment, today announced the acquisition of ComiCONN to create Wizard World Connecticut Comic Con 2011, to be held on a date and at a site to be determined. The announcement came on the first day of this weekend's Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Read more
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Wizard World announces changes to three Comic Cons

Media Release -- Wizard World CEO Gareb Shamus today announced changes to three of the events on the North American Wizard World Comic Con tour. The Big Apple Comic Con will be held on Oct. 1-3 at the newly renovated Penn Plaza Pavilion in New York City. The new dates for the New England Comic Con are now Oct. 15-17 at the John B.
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Wizard adds show in Nashville to line-up

Media Release -- CEO of New York based Wizard Entertainment, Gareb Shamus, announces his latest convention acquisition. Nashville's Comic & Horror Festival is now Nashville Comic Con Wizard World Convention. Read more
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New England Comic Con tickets on sale now

Media Release -- Gareb Shamus, CEO of New York based Wizard Entertainment, confirms today the dates and venue for the recently purchased New England Comic Con. "October is a great time to be in Boston," said Shamus. "The Hynes Convention Center is a premiere space and a hometown favorite for shows. I'm excited to bring the New England Comic Con fans this upgraded con experience." Read more
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Wizard drops its comics price guide (and the pages it occupied …

Users of the Wizard Universe Message Board are reporting that Wizard, the flagship magazine of Gareb Shamus's publishing, retail, and conventions empire, has ceased publication of its long-running price guide for collectible comics with ...
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The week in Con Wars

Well, it’s been a busy week in the ongoing (choose one): a) war between Reed Exhibitions and Wizard/Gareb Shamus b) “flaming Viking Death Ship” for Wizard/Gareb Shamus and some kind of roundup post seemed warranted. While we’ve been on semi-vacation, Sean T. Collins and Rich Johnston did the heavy lifting of finding posts and messages now deleted. But a few lagniappes, as it were, remain to, perhaps, garnish the story. If you’re sick of all this already, then pass by, unmolested.
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The week in Con Wars

Well, it’s been a busy week in the ongoing (choose one): a) war between Reed Exhibitions and Wizard/Gareb Shamus b) “flaming Viking Death Ship” for Wizard/Gareb Shamus and some kind of roundup post seemed warranted. While we’ve been on semi-vacation, Sean T. Collins and Rich Johnston did the heavy lifting of finding posts and messages now deleted.
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Is Brian Michael Bendis a casualty of the Con War?

"Last minute cancellations" at last weekend's Big Apple Comic Con (via The Beat) With the initial salvos -- head-to-head scheduling , employee ejections -- out of the way, the battle between Reed Exhibitions and Wizard Entertainment's Gareb Shamus that began in earnest this past weekend may have produced its first major fallout. Following Shamus's scheduling of next year's Big Apple Comic Con directly against Reed's New York Comic Con, previously announced Anaheim Comic Con guests of
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