Media Release -- The Spring 2009 issue of Comic-Con Magazine, the new official publication of the San Diego Comic-Con International, WonderCon, and APE, the Alternative Press Expo is available now. While those of you on our mailing list have been receiving Comic-Con's Update magazine for many years, this new incarnation is both a continuation and an upgrade of that publication.

Comic-Con Magazine will still contain the elements that made the Update the official preview of all the Comic-Con events, but now, like never before, this new format gives us space to focus on our mission statement: bringing comics and the popular arts to a wider audience.

We will continue showcasing exclusive interviews with special guests from all three of our shows, plus the latest information that makes all of our conventions not only the leading comics and popular arts events around, but the best attended as well.

Comic-Con Magazine will be the publication to keep you informed on happenings at our three conventions. Printed four times a year, three issues will continue to be sent to everyone on our mailing list and distributed through Diamond Comics Distributors to select comics shops across the country, as well as our own distribution to various coffee shops, art-houses, and alternative locations in the San Diego and Los Angeles area.

Each summer we'll be releasing our special "Summer Spectacular," a hybrid of Comic-Con’s "Souvenir Book" plus all the things that make the Comic-Con Magazine so great. This issue will be available only to those who attend Comic-Con. It's the wonderful world of Comic-Con, WonderCon and APE, only in magazine form!