Will Carter wrote to ask this question and believe it or not, I didn't know the answer to part of it…
You are famous for hosting so many panels per year at Comic-Con. What is your personal record for most panels in one convention? How many did you host this past year?
The second part of this was easy. I hosted ten because I skipped Wednesday night and Thursday all day, not so much because of COVID fears but because after so many months of isolation, I wanted to ease back in to being around a lot of people. So we got there Thursday evening late and then on Friday, I was on one panel and hosted another. Then on Saturday, I hosted four and on Sunday, I hosted four.
I had to go research the first part of this question. My average seems to be around 13 per convention but in 2018, I hosted 16 panels and appeared on one other over the four days. I have no idea if anyone has topped that number but I think that's my max.
It was fun to look this up and melancholy to see all the names of folks who are no longer with us. I've decided to post some of those old schedules so you can share the experience. Here's my panel schedule for 2001. We had not yet started doing Quick Draw! then. There was but one Cartoon Voices panel and it was in Room 8, which seats 340 maximum. I now host two per con in rooms that seat a heckuva lot more and we always seem to fill them.
