International Comic-Con (San Diego)

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Ahoy. Anyone going to this next weekend? I'm working the TOKYOPOP booth again. It's supposed to be a lot bigger than Anime Expo, and I found Anime Expo to be pretty large. Comic-Con is more mainstream though, with lots of Hollywood and TV types involved, besides the comics people.

Anyway it will probably be quite interesting as well as tiring.

[Spriggan]

No, but I was tempted to go just to get a Skull (from PVP) plush that will be an exclusive at the con.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'd like to go to mock fred and Scott and Tycho and so on. but still...


no, I'll go when I'm famous. Right now I can't afford to cross the country for something that's not my career, no matter how interested I am.

[Spriggan]

Admit it, you're not going to Mock them becasue you're scared Gabe would jump you.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

hey, was Gabe even on my mocking list?

[Spriggan]

well you mentioned Tycho the went "and so on"  I took that as you skirting around Gabe's name so you wouldn't have to worry about admitting your fear.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yeah, i meant to have Jeff and Jonathan and Pete on the list.

Not gabe.

That guy's TERRIFYING

[Spriggan]

Wow such a fast recovery.  You went from denail to acceptence in just one post.  I think you're well on your way overcomming your fear SE.  I applaude you sir.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I don't have the attention span required for a long recovery.

[fuzzyoctopus]

No, but I was tempted to go just to get a Skull (from PVP) plush that will be an exclusive at the con.

Me too. I want one!

[Peter Ahlstrom]

So I'm at Comic-Con now. I heard there were 75,000 pre-reg and expecting 90,000 total people.

Today at the booth I ran into Anne Sowards! Remember her...she used to work at TLE (around issue 34) and now works at Penguin/Ace/Roc. I went to her apartment for family home evening several times when I was in New York.

She said that Worldcon is tiny compared to Comic-Con.

Oh yeah...Harry Harrison had a panel I went to. It was cool. He talked about how Stainless Steel Rat has been movie optioned for 20 years, and who knows if it will ever be made. And he was supposed to get 5% of the profit for the movie Soylent Green (which was based on his book Make Room! Make Room!), and the movie APPARENTLY never made a profit, because he's never been paid. But at least he was able to make some good contributions to the movie during the filming.

[EUOL]

Yes, Worldcon is tiny compared to a lot of things.  However, it's the largest SF con.  

Do me a favor, Ookla.  Go to stop by booth 4608 and say hi to Stephen Martiniere for me.  He's the guy who did the ELANTRIS cover art.  

[Peter Ahlstrom]

ah crap! That's the other thing I wanted to do... Yeah, I saw his one-page ad in the program guide and said "that's that guy!" It had the Macross picture... Arrrrrrrrrgh um, didn't check the board until just now, and completely forgot to stop by. Tomorrow's Sunday so... Errrgh.

Maybe I can stop by before church.

[JP Dogberry]

Well, a guy I know and a guy a friend of mine knows are apparantly there.

Worlds colliding.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

okay. I stopped by the booth, but he wasn't there. I left a message with the person that was there, though.

Ray Bradbury was also at comic-con. I sat in on the first bit of his panel, and then had to go back down to the booth. He was in a wheelchair. He was still entertaining though.