I will be a guest-type person at WonderCon in Anaheim, California from April 18 to 20. I will be hosting six panels or events, including a panel with Sergio Aragonés, a Cartoon Voice panel and a panel on the history of Hanna-Barbera with folks who worked there in the sixties, plus I'll be speaking on Writing for Animation. The full programming schedule will be available shortly on the convention website.
Whenever I speak on Writing for Animation, I start the "class" by letting the audience vote: Do they want to hear about how to write scripts? Or do they want to hear about how to get jobs? The vote is always close enough to 50-50 that I wind up splitting the time to cover both. I assume it will go that way this time.
It's not on their website yet but I will also be a guest at the Phoenix Comicon in guess-what-city on June 5-8. I've never been to this one but I'm told a great time is had by all, so I've decided to accept their invite and go have a great time. I will be doing some panels but I dunno about them yet.
Then I will be in my usual role at the Comic-Con International in San Diego. which this year runs July 24-27, meaning it actually starts the night of July 23 for those who score Preview Night badges. I will be hosting 243,000 panels…or an average of one per attendee. It'll be a while before we hear about them…but in a week or two, they should be announcing this year's recipients of the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing, and I think a lot of folks are going to be delightfully surprised at the selections.
And that's it for my dance card at the moment.