Four weeks from today, the wonderful WonderCon opens in San Francisco. Those of you who feel intimidated and overwhelmed by the annual Comic-Con International in San Diego would do well to check out WonderCon, which is kind of like Comic-Con Lite. The same skilled crew operates it but it's about a fourth as packed. (Last year, WonderCon drew 34,000 attendees whereas Comic-Con had somewhere between 125,000 and 140,000.)
I will be among its guests and in a stunning reversal of past precedent, I will be hosting panels. The schedule will be up soon but Colleen Doran has already announced that she and I and a couple other folks will be doing one on Creator Rights. And you can assume I'll be interviewing WonderCon guests like Murphy Anderson, Joe Kubert and Adam Kubert, and that I'll be sharing a stage with the famously infamous Sergio Aragonés. I'm also pleased to remind you that Stan and Hunter Freberg will be there. An awful lot of folks told me that meeting Stan at last year's Comic-Con was among the great thrills of their lives.
And it's not that long until Comic-Con International happens again. The new issue of the Comic-Con magazine is reaching mailboxes even as we speak. If it doesn't reach yours, you can read it online. And remember that the mad dash for hotel reservations commences Thursday, March 18. I am told it will be a lot better this year than it has been in years past. So you may not wind up sleeping in a Public Storage locker in El Cajon.