Three more people informed me that Stan Lee is not delivering mail for a living. I did three panels that all went well, I thought. Arnold Drake, God love him, closed the Golden/Silver Age panel with an original, a cappella song about the convention that brought down the house, as they say. This was after earlier bringing down the house with anecdotes about working for one of the less admirable editors in the business. The convention took the occasion of the panel to present its coveted Inkpot Award to Bob Fujitani, Lee Ames, Sy Barry, Dexter Taylor and Bob Bolling. Everyone seemed pleased.
The Sergio-Mark Panel was the Sergio-Mark Panel. The panel on Comic Book Weblogs seemed to satisfy its purpose and most attendees. No big news flashes from any of these but, hey, I had a good time. All in all, not a bad first day of the convention…though I sense a certain looming dread of the Saturday crowds.
Off to do more panels…