As warned here, tickets for Thursday at the Comic-Con International in San Diego this July are all gone. It won't be long before Sunday will be sold out, too.
Tomorrow at 9 AM Pacific, the hotel reservations desk opens up and there'll be a mad crush, folks stampeding for rooms like a pack of pitbulls on a pork roast. I'm told there will be many more spots in many more hotels available than ever…but someone's gonna get shut out, at least for a while until more rooms get added. If you're among those who don't get what you want right away, remember the following: I cannot help you. Writing or calling me is an enormous waste of time. I do not work for the convention. Also remember that while it may look bleak in March, these things have a way of working themselves out before July.
Folks are already writing me to ask what panels I'll be doing down there and when they are. Your guess, as the saying goes, is as good as mine. I usually do a Sergio-Mark panel on Thursday, a Golden Age panel on Thursday or Friday, Quick Draw! and one Cartoon Voice panel on Saturday, another Cartoon Voice panel and a Jack Kirby panel on Sunday…and various "spotlight" panels on other days. But it'll be a month or two before planning commences so right now, that's all I know — and do note the use of the word "usually" in that sentence.
Lastly, I have this joke I do here every year. Around about May, I write, "If you want to find a parking space down there, leave now." I was thinking of moving it up to mid-April this year but the way tickets have been going, I'm thinking I may already have missed the moment.