Or 12 Days Until Preview Night if you want to count that way. This is about the time of year when I start telling friends I know are going, "Hey, I'm kinda busy so I've had them postpone the convention until late September!" And they all laugh and say, "Oh, if only you could." But it doesn't matter when they have it. It'll always crowd your life a little to get ready and clear the time. I try real hard to get ahead enough on my work that I won't have to spend significant portions of the con up in my room on the laptop, finishing a script for this or that. There have been cons when that happened and it was tough to sit up there and work, well aware of what I was missing elsewhere. As I keep mentioning, enjoying the con has a lot to do with planning ahead.
I'm still planning my eight thousand panels. I just added Roy Thomas to the Friday panel on Comics in the 70's. Roy was a very important figure in comics in that era (and before and after, as well) and I'm looking forward to talking with him on quite a few program items at the convention.
I also just added Jonathan Ross to the Sunday morning Jack Kirby Tribute Panel — too late, alas, to get his name in the printed or even online schedules. Jonathan is the host of the popular Penn & Teller: Fool Us program seen on the ITV network in Great Britain…and on constant bootlegs and YouTube uploads in this one. Jonathan is also the host of about ninety-one other TV and radio shows over there but we care more than he's a devout comic book fan and collector, and I'm delighted that he's agreed to join our little Kirby panel.
The entire programming schedule for Comic-Con is now online. You can go check the Thursday Programming. You can go check the Friday Programming. You can go check the Saturday Programming. You can even go check the Sunday Programming. And best of all, you can click the banner below and it will spirit you off to a page that lists the events you really want to attend — the ones being hosted or co-hosted by Guess Who…
