Preview Night of Comic-Con International is two weeks from tomorrow evening and the rest of the convention follows on July 21-24. If you're attending, keep your eye on the Comic-Con website as they will be posting the programming schedule. The way it usually works is that the schedule for Thursday of the con will be posted there two weeks before on Thursday, the Friday programming schedule will be posted two weeks before on Friday…so this week. I urge you to study the schedule and make notes on what you want to see…and what you'll take as your alternate picks if you can't get into your first choices.
I'm involved with ten panels and I'll post that list once the con has all the days up online. People keep writing to ask me if I'm doing Cartoon Voices panels, a Jack Kirby panel and Quick Draw and if so, when. The answer is yes and they're in the same time slots in the same rooms they've been in for the last 10+ years.
There do seem to still be some hotel rooms available in town, though most are not close to the convention center. There are no membership badges available through the convention except for a pricey few being auctioned on eBay with the proceeds going to benefit the Comic-Con Museum.
AND VERY IMPORTANT: Read the guidelines and rules involving masking, proof of vaccination and such. It can only slow up or prevent your entry into the convention if you don't.
I'll post some more tips over the next two weeks but for now, remember these: Comfortable footwear, plan ahead, don't expect to see and do everything, and — because this cannot be stated too many times — read those COVID guidelines.