san diego comic con...

I will be at san diego comic con mostly wandering around a bunch. I will be signing at the SLG booth friday from 2:30 to 4:00 and sunday from 11:00 to 12:30. saturday I'll be at the Adventure Time panel at 3:00 (I won't be on the panel but most of the crew of the show will be sitting up front if you want to stop by and say hello after the panel).

check out my twitter feed for updates.

-a

san diego comic con

i'll be at the san diego comic con friday and saturday... mostly walking around. but i will be at the SLG booth a little bit and hopefully at the popgun booth (if there is one!). be sure to check out the adventure time cartoon network panel on friday at 11:45 in room 6a/

comic con 2008: shwag report...

or how i spent too much money in too little time to insure that getting to and from the airport was as much of a hassle as possible.

here is a list of the comic booty in no particular order. (my apologizationals to those i could not fine links to.)

click on the pictchas to see em better.

the professor's daughter by joann sfar and emmanuel guibert. book plate betties by bill pressing. mixtape 2 and stupid comics phoenix edition by jim mahfood. deep sleeper by phil hester and mike huddleston. oogeley boogeley 3 by animation tour de force pascal campion. gus and his gang by chris blain. flesk publications fall catalog various artists. comics comics number 2 and 3 featuring pshaw and many more. NBM free fall sampler various artists. modern masters vol 6 arthur adams (who i sat a row behind on he flight back to san fran). alter ego no. 78 dave cockrum. five color comics no. 1 various artists put out by house of secrets. massive swerve books 1 and 2 by robert valley. jellyfist by j. vasquez and j. goldberg. lobster ladd and pirate club vol. 2 by derek hunter. usagi jane and the skull bunnies by ben seto. don't flash the octopus by steph laberis. the goddess of war by laura weinstein. lost penguin of elephant island, the caterpillaar space force of robots, he becomes who kills him, he curse of the silver cobra, journey along a fieldline, space junk all by zander cannon. animal blog and the young minotaur by gabriele pennacchioli. bone sharps, cowboys, and thunder lizards jim ottaviani and big time attic. tom columbus gave me his self published zines she says, serving time, and a sketchbook. monday night gig a smith bros. film. this years SLG catalog has the babysitter collection on the cover! the free nerd burglar by various artist. god the dyslexic dog issues 3 and 4 by alex nino. with friends like these 3, take out 1,2,4, 5 by raina telgemeier. swingin scary larry and gagert present carnival of souls. sean hemak and devon devereaux. discover dark horse comics 2008 various artist. we lost the war but not the battle by (the director) michel gondry. mad magazine's comic con freebe various artist. notes on a war story by gipi. oh my stars and garters the art of sarah dungan vol. 2. blister no. 1 by helen jo. biocreep 4 story stash. by the great mike daley. modern masters vol. 7 john byrne. six hundred and seventy six apparitions of klloffer by typocrat (i'm not sure if this is the publisher or the artist).

i also got some posters and free shirts and stuff like that...

haven't had a chance to read any of it.

comic con report 2008: costume report.

whew! i'm back from comic con, and i'm back with twice my weight in comics! more on that in my next post. First i talk about what is most important at comic con. geeks who for some reason see the need to spend time making (or money buying) costumes of their favorite things.
(this is by no means a comprehensive list of all that were in costume at the convention. if anything it is only one tenth of those who dressed up).
in no particular order of course.

sssssh.... jaba's sleeping.meet me on valhalla.

all hail the waffle king.

me infront of my banner bending time-space.

the waffle spot.

jet lee spent the entire con encased in terra cotta!

iron man protects some hulk ass.

elvis stormtrooper and ladyfriend.

castle grayskull in all it's glory.

the xmen?

friend cube!

armor for the whole family.matessi contemplates the masterchief.

the watchman owl ship.

the set of nightmare before christmas.

an awake jaba is a happy hutt

a little short for a snow trooper.black man vs. batman

snake eyes got his badge and is ready to shop.

lego batman.

i used to letter the guy with the orange hairs comic.

the iron monger.

creepy furries and what i assume is their nerd slave.

this was taken right before they shot me. (seriously tho' i wonder if they check to make sure the guns people are carrying are not real)

boba fett and tie fighter pilot.

the question... i'd know that face anywhere.

these guys were from the future.

the batcycle from the old 60's show

number 6 from the prisoner..."be seeing you"

triumph the comic insult dog gives one of many jokers a wedgie. there's a chance i might be on conan o'brian in the background if this makes it in the sketch.

weird goth s&m goth ninja fett

all the doctors stunt doubles showed up.

chun-li

dumbledork was there.

plastic man was hitting people over the head with his mallet arm.

mexican no-face?

some ladies in normal convention garb.

the beast massages his face.

cobra commander was on the scene.

cylons were watching.

trapjaw and some other he-man she-ra characters.

the federation away team assigned to the con.

this guys got an indiana jones.

real life tie-fighters!

-a