Archive for the 'San Diego Comic Con' Category

My 2011 Comic Con Fears Arrive Early

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

The economy may be slow, but there’s one place that’s going strong with near-unlimited demand: Comic Con 2011. I knew it was already going to be off the hook when I was in the office a few weeks ago and got a call from an anxious would-be Comic Con 2011 attendee. It was the day [...]

Putting the Fanatic Back Into Fan, 2009 Edition

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Peter guesses that every year, the San Diego Comic-Con is 30% larger than the year before. I’d assumed that when the convention center reached 100% capacity (as it did last year), that it couldn’t get any bigger. I was wrong: the convention has instead increasingly sprawled out into its downtown San Diego surroundings and beyond. [...]

I Hate the Day Before Comic-Con

Monday, July 20th, 2009

With 15+ years of experience of packing up and going to Comic-Con, you’d think one of these years it would go smoothly. But no matter how much we’ve prepared, the day before Comic-Con is always a hot, hectic mess. I can’t even remember some of the details of all any more, but I cannot remember [...]

The Hypocritical Capitalist

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

I got paid by my client on Thursday, about which I was very happy. I love capitalism, no matter how brutal, unfair and “chaotic and unforgiving” our president may deem it as being. I sacrifice my free time and work hard, and then I get money which I may spend however I wish. I reiterated [...]

Hoteloween and the Softening Economy

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

As I reported before, the San Diego Comic-Con is huge, and unlike many other things, apparently unaffected by economic woes. For some comics- and pop-culture fans, it’s Christmas, Easter, and Disneyland at once, all wrapped up in one 4-1/2 day extravaganza. Last year, circumstance allowed me to go to the show casually, and it was [...]

Anxiety Week

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

I’ve been doing very light blogging, because I’ve been putting all my writing efforts into this current gig I have that pays me for doing writing, which I love. But I still love blogging, so you can still expect to see the rare, in-between entry. This last week has been one of great anxiety. Charybdis [...]

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

I have to say this year has been exciting, and at times spectacular for me. In February, I got to revisit Germany for the first time in many, many years. I had a great time, but I missed my family much more than I expected to. And one lasting part of the experience is that [...]

Comic-Con Recovery

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I work out regularly and consider myself in pretty good physical shape, but I have to say Comic-Con kicked my butt, even though I was, at best, a part-time attendee. I’m swearing to myself that if I do this again, I should prepare myself for it physically and mentally specifically for the task. Off-hand, I [...]

Super Obama

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Until this year, I haven’t seen any overt political messages at the San Diego Comic-Con. It’s usually about pop culture, which when it’s good transcends politics. So I was flabbergasted when I saw this t-shirt for sale at a vendor’s booth: Better writers than me have already commented the cult of personality type of imagery [...]

Tasteless Promotion or Comic-Con Harbinger?

Friday, August 1st, 2008

On Sunday morning, as I was running over to our hotel to get something for the booth, I saw this truck driving around the area near the convention center, clearly meant to promote the movie Joyride to the Comic-Con audience: This really gave me pause. It had a decapitated head and various disembodied body parts [...]

by Carolyn Bickford