How will I shame myself this year? Or, COMIC CON (SDCC) 2007

No for serious, it is on.

THURSDAY
10:30-11:30 From Fan to Creator: Goal-Setting for Creative Types
This one totally sounds like a self-help seminar! At least I already paid for it!

11:00-12:00 DVD Sneak Peak 2007
Twin Peaks peeks!

11:30-12:30 Writing with Mark Verheiden
BSG guy!

11:45-12:45 Richard Hatch: Battlestar Galactica Forum
Other BSG guy!

12:30-2:00 Drawing Style and Storytelling
Darwyn! Carla Speed GcNeil! Moderated by an ILC guy!

1:00-2:00 Rosario Dawson: Occult Crimes Taskforce
LOL this is still getting published?

1:00-2:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #3: Gender: Bending Masculinity and the Image of the Hero
Yay! With BKV content!

2:30-3:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #4: Reflecting and Refracting: Comics as a Social Mirror
What's going on! Another BKV paper! By a Duke (= HATE) guy!

3:45-5:15 Lionsgate
lol Alba will be at this one! Maybe she will go out with me!

4:00-5:00 Spotlight on Adam Hughes
More like spotlight on Adam BOOBS aren't I correct?

5:00-6:30 Lost Season 4
Do I even care about this show anymore!

7:15-8:45 The Pixar Story: To Infinity and Beyond

8:30-10:30 World Premiere! Superman Doomsday
TIMM!

FRIDAY
10:30-11:30 Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1

11:30-12:30 Spotlight on Paul Dini
lmbo @ "the current classic-in-the-making Countdown"

11:30-1:00 Comics Arts Conference Session #6: Comics Aren’t Film and Other Vicey Verses

12:30-1:30 Vertigo: I Am Legend
Sienkiewicz sighting!

1:30-2:30 The Image Comics Show
Fractional sighting!

1:30-2:30 24
I'ma actively boycott this one!

2:00-3:15 Spotlight on Neil Gaiman
lol!

2:00-3:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #8: Storytelling and Visual Language
What the? "Diana Green (Minneapolis College of Art & Design) traces Vaughn Bode’s creation of a catalytic gestalt of the comics form by examining the influence of cartoonists and writers as disparate as [...] James Joyce."

2:30-3:30 Filmation DVD Spotlight: From Isis and blah blah blah!
Wow! Post-metal makes it to SDCC!

3:30-4:30 WOW! It’s World of Warcraft!
OMG waht nurds!

4:15-5:45 Warner Bros. Animation: The Batman/Legion of Super-Heroes
I was too late to the DCAU party! I have to make do with this!

6:30-7:30 Simpsons Fan Group Meeting
Hahah yeah right!

CATURDAY
9:15-10:15 Special Early Screening: Pushing Daisies
HEEROES surrogate!

10:00-11:15 Bionic Woman: Exclusive Pilot Screening and Q&A
AAAALIAS surrogate!

10:30-11:30 Black Panel
No RZA this year! ;_;

10:30-12:00 Quick Draw

10:30-12:00 Animation Writers Caucus: Holy Bleep, Batman! or Censorship and Animation

10:30-11:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #9: Superheroes, Villains, and Vixens: A Discussion of the Top Pop-Culture Icons of 20th-Century Comicdom

10:45-12:00 The Simpsons
This show sucks now!

11:30-12:30 Spotlight on Paul Pope
Hooray! I should ask about his mum!

11:30-12:30 Reality-Based Graphic Novels
NOT about Survivor! ;_;

11:30-12:30 TV Guide Hot List
HEEEROES!

11:30-1:00 Comics Arts Conference Session #10: Comics as/and History
Features a pair of Frank Miller apologists!

12:30-1:30 Spotlight on J. H. Williams III
Joined by GMo!

12:45-2:00 Heroes: Exclusive Volume II Clip and Q&A
ARGH wtf, who schedules these things? This or the JHWIII thing?

1:00-2:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #11: High Art and Low
Great topic if the papers actually dealt with the production of cultural value!

1:30-2:45 DCU: New Worlds Order
GMO!

1:30-2:30 Oni Press Presents: Stumped
Rucka! Maybe he'll start writing Q&C again?

2:15-3:15 Battlestar Galactica
ADAMA IS THE FINAL SYLAR!

2:30-3:30 Storytelling with and Without Pictures
"Mike Mignola (Baltimore, Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire...)" = Dracula meets The Wire?

2:30-3:30 Lost Fan Summit
Haha I tell them their show sux!

2:30-3:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #12: Poster Session
"A group of graduate students from the UC—San Diego present a poster panel on comics and the construction of identity"!

3:30-4:30 Futurama
^_^

4:00-5:00 Jeff Smith
=^_^=

5:15-6:30 The Sarah Connor Chronicles Screening and Q&A
Hm!

6:00-7:00 Spotlight on Mark Verheiden
Wth? He gets two spotlights?

9:00-11:00 Spotlight on Warren Ellis

SUNDAY
10:30-11:45 Jack Kirby Tribute

10:30-12:00 CBLDF Live Art Jam
Jeff Smith!

10:45-11:45 TV Guide: Super(Natural) Women
Lucy Lawless-bot!

11:30-1:00 Comics Are Not Literature
Dang straight, Douglas!

12:30-2:00 Pro/Fan Trivia Match: The Multiverse
Wein + Waid take on the nerds!

12:45-1:45 Pathology
Peter Petrelli! Alyssa Milano?

1:00-2:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #15: What’s the Big Idea?
Mmm stasis!

2:30-3:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #16: The Culture of Popular Things: Ethnographic Examinations of Comic-Con 2007
Comic-Con goes Meta in '07!

PAUL POPE! Ask him when he's doing Green Lantern Year 100!

11:30-12:30 Writing with Mark Verheiden

WHERE DOES HE GET HIS IDEAS?

AND WHY DOES HE KEEP THEM TO HIMSELF?

This or the JHWIII thing?

Go where the cool kids go, i.e. JHWIII.

"cool kids" = clearly you do not know me!!

Mark Verheiden: Also ruining by Batllestar Galangtica.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ill probably be at this

^_^ we should nosh!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I did not vote in this, but if I had it would have been for Starfire(animated), which could split the deadlock, if you like.

I'd have to get bronzer and shave my legs too, the latter of which is one advantage for the Palestinian lesbian.

Serious question to Douglas: are you going to have any copies of your book on hand to sell? And can I mention the special ILC discount? $_$

Leee, I'm going to be doing two signings at the Comic Relief booth--Thursday 2:15ish to 3:30, and Saturday 3 to 4:30. The discount's not mine to give, would that I could...

Good to hear. Used to frequent Comic Relief, as a matter of fact! j/k about ILC diskont, btw.

Just noticed that BRILLIANT BILL SIENKIEWICZ will be in Artist's Alley!

I ain't daid. Just acting like it.

I'll be there. I believe that Leeee still has my cell# (unchanged, even after the move.)

No, I still don't have books to sell there, but I do have a new and improved ashcan of my post-Speakeasy-incarnation of STRANGEWAYS.

I got to see Leee yesterday! Even though I fear I was frazzled and probably totally rude to him! But he's awesome!

I thought I was short with you, Douglas! It's a veritable Rude Party!

Tremendous dorkitudinous report forthcoming.

Spotted at the party I was at last night: Joss Whedon, Stan Lee, Jenna Jameson, Sarah Silverman, Cory Doctorow, Michael Cera and Katee Sackhoff.

Oh my God does my back hurt. This may have something to do with my having picked up approximately 27 metric fucktons of books. That "Sundays with Walt and Skeezix" book alone...

Spotted at the party I was at last night...

This year could've been my worst con ever, if not for the fact that there were a ton of YEEEEE things that happened along the way.

It all started with the first of many misunderstandings about carpooling, and where I was going to stay for the duration; first, I fly into SD at around 7.30 Wednesday night, but the couple I'm staying with are both occupied till 9.30, so I have to occupy myself for a couple hours, which I do by forcing the guy tending bar to switch to <i>So You Think You Can Dance</i>, then leaving without ordering anything more than some water. Class act, me. I find out that the LA doods I'm supposed to carpool with, from our friends' house to the con, don't want to ride with me anymore, the excuse being that they're planning on buying so much schwag which they're going to flip for profit that the car just wouldn't fit me anymore. Capitalism 1, Leee 0.

So I arrange to stay and ride with my San Jose peeps after Thursday, who were staying in a room at a hotel downtown, all seven of them. Mehness ensues.

The wife picks me up 9.15ish, when she tells me that her husband wasn't going to be around till past midnight because he had to take his granddad to the emergency room (turns out it was/is food poisoning plus UTI), and granddad was vomiting/heaving through my entire stay.

Thus ends Wednesday night.

<b>Thursday</b>
Riding into the con about 9.30ish in the morning, I pick up my badge surprisingly quickly, since I heard that Preview Night was completely packed for the second year in a row. Mind you, Preview Night is when only pre-registered attendees can enter the exhibition hall, where only exhibitors are (i.e. no artists) hocking their wares.

The exhibition floor opens at least 15 minutes late, and by that time, I don't know what I'm doing anymore. The geek fire wasn't burning anymore! I don't remember what I did, but I went to two Comics Art Conference panels -- scholars presenting papers -- one on gender, the other on "Comics as a social mirror," and they were both pretty bad undergraduate-level stuff, dreary enough that I don't bother participating. However, at the second panel, a dude in the audience took both of the presenters to task (lolomg one presenter misused phenomenology lmbo). Heckler mentions some book on narrative which sounded hot to me; after the panel, I ask him what the name of the book was (<i>Spectacular Narratives</i>, I believe), and then he said that he recognized me from past CACs. Like, woah. (I recognized him too, FWIW.)

In between the two panels, I pick up Douglas' book, and soon thereafter meet and greet him. We chat a bit before I go to the panel, but long story short: I have a signed Wolk book!

I scope Artist's Alley next, because the great Sienkiewicz is supposed to be there -- except he's not! So I trawl the other artists, and see the guy who came onto <i>Spidey Hearts MJ</i> after Miyazawa, and he gets me my first sketch of SDCC07:

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Next is Dustin Nguyen, he of <i>Authority: Revolutions</i> awesomeness. We shoot the breeze for a while, all the time he's sure he's seen me before. I say I got a Midnighter sketch from him the year before. Then he has a lightbulb moment: "You're that guy who follows me to every con who wants me to draw a super-deformed Robin!" Me: "Do all Asians look alike to you?" Him: "Yup lol!" But he's cool enough with me that, even though he'd apparently said on his blog that he wasn't going to do any free sketches, I got this smoking elf from him:

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I also encounter Karl Kessel, inker on much of the Waid/Wieringo FF run. I'd found a booth with $1 comics and picked up the first 9 or so FF, get him to sign it, and he gives me homework! "Read these issues, and report back to me with a 5-page report!" Or he might've said that I'd really dig them. (He was right!)

<i>Heroes</i> (yay!) had a booth, where not only could I enter a raffle to win a <i>Heroes</i> lunchbox (!), but they had cute boothbabes inna cheerleader stylee:

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I've hit my groove now and my geekistential angst is but a memory -- even if, out of sheer apathy, I'd forgotten entirely about the <i>Lost</i> panel, which I heard was dullsville, man -- and I happen by the Image booth where the brothers Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon are chillaxing. Cool! I tell him how much I dig <i>Casanova</i>, and that I wanted to bring that page featuring the two of them from <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>, but I spilled food on it and is no more fit for collecting. I also say that I'd always thought that Ba was Asian, possibly Thai, and elegantly ask the two for sketches. They point out that it was 10 minutes before closing time, and I'm all, "Duh on me!"

As for the cliffhanger on where I'd stay: midday, my friend catches wind that I was going to switch abodes, but he offers to loan me an old car, and even if it was a dangerous SUV, it turned out to be probably the best choice, so I end up staying with them.

Next installment: fisticuffs, Darnie11e, and a heart-stopping race against the clock!

Missed Leee, missed Darnieoneonee (who I've never met, aksually), ran into Doug, who didn't recall me from our previous meetings (or my infrequent postings here.)

Blogging the thing over at Highway 62, if'n you want to read. http://highway-62.com/blog/. Up to Friday or so by now. Should have it all this week, I'm hoping.

A quick addendum on the MJ sketch; Hahn said that if he'd do the sketch on one condition: that I put a bunch of his pens into a small bag! No kidding.

Friday
Game plan today? Sketches and bin-diving!

Got some trades/hardcovers at 50% off (Essential Howard the Duck, New X-Men Vol. 1 HC), plus assorted singles, one of which was edited by a former ILCer...

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Picked it up at the Comicage booth (they're awesome, btw, as I picked up Rogan Gosh at their place last year too); don't let the sticker fool you, I got it for $2. Oh and Doug, the publisher is Trident. ^_^

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Swing by Artist's Alley to see if Sienkiewicz had shown up yet (no), and Dustin Nguyen, remembering me bugging him yesterday, walks out of his booth and socks me in the stomach, to which I retorted, "Where's my super-deformed Robin???" Much mirth had by all.

Dwayne McDuffie was signing at a booth from 11 to 12, and I was supposed to be looking for a few of his singles while getting into a fight with artists. I checked my watch, and it was about 11:45, and I book it to McDuffie to see if he's still there. I once again tell him how much I heart JLU and also to see if he had any books with him he was selling, but alas! I had to scramble! Several aisles away was the $1 comics booth, dove into its bins but all they had of the recentish FFs was in the 520s; I checked my new favorite retailer Comicage, but again, no dice. Finally, it was a few minutes past noon by my watch, and in desperation I head back to Dwayne's booth, where, literally diagonaly across the aisle, was a booth where I found FF #s 542 and 543! (Shades of my Rosario Dawson circumnavigation from last year!) Fortunately, he was still there, and got those signed right quick! ^_^

Lunch, and then the Image panel wherein ILC heartthrob Matt Fraction sat. Most audience questions went to Kirkman, but I worked up the nerve to ask Matt: "Since Casanova #1 was kicked off by the Ronettes, was there a song that similarly kicks of Casanova #8?" To which he replied, "Do you know the Mountain Goats?" Doi! Specifically, he'd been listening pretty hard to The Sunset Tree, as he'd been going through some bummer times during the writing of #8.

Next was more sketch-hunting. Got a Cliff Chiang Creeper, but that was in pretty light pencils so I haven't been able to digitize it, though he did say it was a cool book to work on because he dug early-20th Parisian architecture and drawing ERNEST HEMINGWAY. I walked past Mignola's booth and saw his daughter there, and then I kicked myself for not bringing the Dark Horse anthology that had one of her stories. Instead, I console myself with Gene Ha; I ask him gingerly if he did quick sketches, and he said yes, but with a caveat: he drew the person asking him as a favorite superhero. Of course, I'm boring and say Batman, but flipping through my sketchbook he notices a Sandman sketch, and sez, "Totally you!"

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Totally Yorick!

Ha gave me some good advice, telling me that I really ought to put my name/contact info on the inside of my sketchbook, which is totally duh, except that for 5 years it'd been without my particulars.

Next, the scene of last year's biggest blunder, Carla Speed McNeil. Thank Eisner, she didn't remember me, though she might've been too polite to rehash What Happened in 2006. I buy Dream Sequence while she's chatting with Anthony Johnson (Brit writer on Oni), and when I get back, I forcibly cut off the limey and ask her for a sketch of "What's his name, the nasty boss from Q&C." "Crocker," she says, "which, if you trace the name back to its origins, means cold heart." (Probably not, but I've forgotten what she said exactly.) Ah, I said, you must be really into etymology (I almost said entomology) because I remember the footnotes in Finder often talked about etymology. Then I strike up a convo with Johnson while she's sketching, and say, "You're the guy who wrote that Q&C: Declassified with all the swears in it!" And from there, we talked briefly on Deadwood and the realism of profanity and whatnot, and I got away without embarrassing myself further.

Swung by the Image booth for some Ba action, from whom I got this robutt:

And the Bearded One was there too! I get my Immortal Iron Fist HC signed, plus the Cas floppies I picked up, and then ask him if he'd heard Electrelane. He said no, I told them they got the krauty motorik of Stereolab, but more pop, not the SLab bossa stuff, but with hooky choruses. He's all, "Cool, I'll check them out. I'm always on the lookout for new juice." Yay!

Last for the day was the DC panel; as questionable as his editorial instinct is, he moderates a great panel, and if you lot ever get the chance, the DC Nation panels are a blast. High point was when a young woman asked when Stephanie Brown would get a memorial in the Batcave, at which point, instead of answering her question, Didio invited her to sit in onstage!

I'm sure there was other stuff, but apparently I had a run-in with Harley Quinn, and...

What was I saying?

I mean:

I'm sure there was other stuff, but apparently I had a run-in with Harley Quinn, and...

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What was I saying?

Next: It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!

HOLD THE PHONE! Ernest Hemingway is in the Creeper? The mini from last year?

Nonononono oh hell no - Cliff Chiang & Jason Hall did a Vertigo mini a few years back, called BEWARE THE CREEPER, which magically transports the Creeper concept into 1920s Paris to frolic w/ Toulouse-Lautrec & co. LOOK HERE. It wasn't that bad.

Faint praise. >;(

GET HIM, GIRLS.

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CATURDAY
Thee big day!

I got to the convention center early as is my wont, and since Pushing Daisies was screened specially early (9.15am) and because it'd been hyped, sure, why not! It's a decent enough pilot, one real LOL bit though the audience was in stitches throughout, but a bit too in love with its WEIRD and has quite a lot of twee, which I think I've finally outgrown. The Q&A was where I shone, though, because I totally macked on Kristin Chenoweth.

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My question even got an Aaron Sorkin mention. (It had to do with dogs, haha geddit?)

Oh and there were other d00ds (and dudette) there too.

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After that I went to a deathly dull CAC, and I skip out early to line up for the PAWL PUP panel! Unsurprisingly, he was fashionably late to his own panel, but he had a neato torpedo multimedia presentation about his influences (some '70s Japanese guy who drew a girl with armpit hair) and his opinion on Belle & Sebastian ("They're weak"). Since Bobbert Shrek was there, I tried to prod them into the story about PP's mom again, but sly Shrek was able to dodge it. I cut out early because I wanted to get lunch and still get in for the HEROES panel right after.

Pick up lunch, and look for the line, and it is looooooooooooong. It goes down one hallway, then OUTSIDE, and doubles back the length of that hallway. I stand in for a while, eating my lunch, until convention staff tell us that THERE WAS NO WAY WE'D BE GETTING IN. ;____________; STUPID LUNCH. I'VE *NEVER* BEEN TURNED AWAY FROM A BALLROOM 20 PANEL, I HATE YOU, STUPID NERDS.

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Good news was, we'd probably get into the BSG panel right after (which was still 2 hours away). Bad news was, I was too steamed to stay in line for that long or seize on my chance to be cool and hit up the JHIII panel. Instead, I go looking for nerds to beat up.

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Actually I blow off steam at another CAC, this one also pretty dumb. I skip out early again because the program advertised George Takei's signing at a booth, and I'm so desperate for Heroes fun, I hie myself over and -- get this -- buy the first action figure I've bought in 15 years (because I'm a big boy now) for him to sign. When it's my turn, I tell him my predicament, and he assures me, "The second season premiere is going to... nay, IT ALREADY HAS BLOWN YOU AWAY." Who the eff am I to argue with him??? I'M STOKED YOU GUYS.

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Somehow, I occupy myself so that I don't kill anyone till 5:00...

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... when what the hey, I need butt-kicking lady TV action (having missed Bionicle Wombman in the morning) and line up for The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Report: it idolizes T1 and T2, and pretends T3 never happened. Some of the acting is a little suspect, and John Connor was all emo "BUT I DON'T WANNA LEAD MANKIND AGAINST THE MACHINES," but it was a nice way to pass an hour.

Also, Lena Headey was looking awfully butch.

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Personally, I think she was trying too hard.

Meanwhile, for you Zach fans, he won't be on Heroes anymore because the actor who plays him, Thomas Dekker, is busy looking scrumptious now.

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Finally, I don't know who this lady is:

Next installment: Cut down before my time!

I'm guessing that's Summer Glau who should have been sitting next to Dekker, unless that was where Bummer Lau was sitting.

Is Sulu on Heroes or something? I've never watched that show.

OMG Jordan YESSSSSS he's on Heroes!!!

Anyway, OVERSIGHT CITY@@@

Saturday
During that hentai henfap, I returned at one point to Artist Alley to check in on Sienkiewicz, not really expecting him to be there. But some big d00d was there sitting at his booth, which also had a laptop with a slideshow of inked and colored BS layouts, plus some convention sketchbooks ($50! C'mon, Bill!), but no BS yet. Another d00der was waiting for him to show up, so we talked a bit, and he said that BS was one of his 3 favorite artists, which also included G. D-arrow, whom he wished was at the Con. "He's at the Con!" I don't remember exactly which booth D-arrow was at, so I whip out my con program and try to give the guy a best-guess of where D-arrow would be. Good samaritan, that's me!

Anyway, BS shuffles in; apparently, he was getting a Harryhausen hardcover signed by RH, about which BS was pretty stoked. D-arrow-fan gets his copy of Elektra: Assassin #8 signed, then it's my turn. I tell him that the first time I saw his work, all the other guys like McKean et al suddenly made perfect sense to me -- BS did not seem too impressed with this tidbit -- and that he was responsible for me getting into Schiele and Klimt. "Ah," quoth the Sink, "I remember when I saw my first Klimt." I think he said it was at the NY MOMA. "It was this huge piece and it hit me so hard that I heard, 'Awwww!' in the background." He went on for a bit longer, autographing my Elektra: Assassin trade and my 4th-edition Daredevil: Love & War GN, while I sweated out how I'd ask for a sketch. I never did ask him, though, because...

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OH. EM. JEE.

Between that and my pic with Sulu, that made my entire Con, which is a good thing too, because SUNDAY, I got to the con with a plan to look for some old Milligans, and sit in on Douglas' "Comics aren't literature" panel (how'd that go?). On Thursday, after I scrapped my plans to switch lodgings, I phoned the hotel guys, saying they were "off the hook" for the rest of the weekend because I'd have a car and could drive myself to and from the Con. Except they took that to include my ride back to the Bay Area, which I didn't find out till I was at the Con Sunday morning. Turns out, the guys I was going home with, they were packing it in NOW (which was just past 9am -- and the Con doesn't officially open till 10am). And that's how I ended this year's Con: going home early with some blatant 'phobes (one asked if Sulu grabbed my butt -- screw you guys) and my weird nasal infection blooming in the back of my nose.

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Anyone going to TCAF in Toronto?

ooh, TCAF reveals that Karl Kerschl will doing Teen Titans YO, so it might be good!

Meanwhile at Comic Con 1982

Only six years before my first Comic-Con. If only I could go back in time and hang out with Jack Kirby and Burne Hogarth, maybe get a Kitty Pryde sketch from Frank Miller.

I never pictured Steve Gerber as the corduroy blazer / flat tie sort.

I also never pictured early 80s cosplay, tho.

Elvis T, those pics scored me big points w/ my comic collector buds, thanks for sharing - I especially like the sign behind Frank Miller ("please don't ask me to draw the XMen (apart from Kitty)")

Wow, that picture of Marv Wolfman with the 11 year old Althea Yronwode is just bizarre.

Has everyone seen <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-light/sets/72157601430944410/"; target="_blank">this yet?</a> It's kind of a great contrast with the photos in this thread.

Oh, wait, I'm dumb, Elvis Telecom already posted that! Sorry!

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CC Beck at the 1982 Minneapolis Comic Con, from here:
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