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Get Your Geek On
Show us your fan pride and you could win VIP tickets to Wizard World
Snap a photo posing with (or as) your favorite superhero or comic book and share via Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Include the hashtag #CVsuperfan, and don’t forget to tag Comstock’s in the photo!
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Cashing in on Comics
How the con industry pays out
Attendance is up, and that’s translating to big bucks for the Capital Region and beyond.
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Level Up
The Capital Region is cashing in on the big business of comic conventions
Comic-themed conventions, or cons, have been around since the 1970s. Even the Capital Region has had its own Sac-Con since 1989. In those days, the events were small affairs attended by a hard-core smattering of lonely youth and middle-aged men speaking their own jargon-filled language. But in the past five years, something changed. Cons became cool.
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Weekend Warriors: Coffee, Roses and Tattoos
Last weekend with Editor in Chief Christine Calvin
I know how to do Sacramento weekends right — it’s sort of a point of pride.
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Comic Crash
How offing Superman almost killed the comic industry
The day Superman died, I was one of millions of people in line throughout the country. It turned out that I could not have picked a worse time than the early 1990s to start collecting comics. I knew nothing about speculation, and larger economic forces of which I was completely ignorant were at work. Shortly after Superman died, he nearly took the entire comic industry with him.
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Just Swipe Right
Your aversion to online dating is why you’re still single
Are you a successful professional yet perennially single? Your refusal to get digital might be the problem.
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Collaborative Spaces
5 companies that work together in style
These local businesses take teamwork to the next level with bold colors and innovative designs that inspire creativity and collaboration. Show us your company’s collaborative space for a chance to take over our Instagram account!
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Photos: Stockton Mural Project
Last year, the Downtown Stockton Alliance in partnership with the Stockton Mural Art Resource Team launched the second phase of “Out of the Box,” a mural program to beautify utility boxes in downtown Stockton and showcase artwork created by local students.
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Photos: ESC Art Panel Discusses Public Art
The Entertainment & Sports Center art panel of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission met on Monday, March 30, at City Hall, which was officially closed for Cesar Chavez Day. Last fall, the panel recommended the $8-million purchase of a Jeff Koons sculpture to anchor the new downtown arena.
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It’s Hip to Be a Foodie
What dressing for success means in the food movement
To find the kind of innovative employees needed to continue pushing the food movement forward, it’s important to look as much as listen. For instance:
“This position requires a vegetable costume as occasional work attire.”