WonderCon, which takes place in Anaheim April 18-20 next year, has announced its second wave of Special Guests…and lo and behold! I'm one of them! So is Sergio Aragonés, who missed the last few due to health problems. His health problems have all gone away and he is back among the WonderConning. To everyone's certain surprise, I will be hosting a number of panels at the convention and just hanging around for three fun days. I'm hoping my own health problems — knees that have developed hostile attitudes — will be over by then.
That's Easter Weekend, a time when a nearby place called Disneyland is a wee bit crowded. Yeah, like neither Chip nor Dale can squeeze in. Still, if you can navigate around the traffic jams, you could have a very good time at WonderCon. I always do…and mainly for the same reasons a non-guest would: So much to see, so much to do. If the Comic-Con International (which is run by the same people) seems foreboding to you — or worse, sold out — WonderCon offers a lot of the same joys in smaller, easier-to-swallow doses.