Con Reports

I've been lax in linking to a number of places where you can read about or view photos from the Comic-Con in San Diego. Here are a few, some of which even involve me in some way…

  • The fine folks who bring you the comic book Supernatural Law also bring you a gallery of Comic-Con photos.
  • The IFilm crew has a bevy of videos shot at the con, including their annual rundown of scantily-clad women.
  • Tom Spurgeon investigates rumors that the Comic-Con International will soon relocate to Anaheim and finds them to be greatly premature. (I've been hearing that for something like fifteen years now.) It's all in an interview he conducted with David Glanzer, the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the con.
  • Jonah Weiland also interviews David and learns more about the convention, including the attendance figures which — to no one's surprise — topped 100,000. Heck, there were that many people ahead of me in some lines.
  • Peter Sanderson begins his annual reports on key convention panels, most of them — like the panel on The Bill Finger Award — hosted by Yours Truly.
  • And Lauren Perry reports on that same panel.

Lastly for now: At the Eisner Award Ceremony, Arnold Drake — recipient of one of the first two Bill Finger Awards — brought down the auditorium with a little a cappella song he composed about the convention. I don't have a video of that but the day before, he broke in the material at the Golden/Silver Age Panel. Video wiz Mike Catron captured the moment and you can watch it here. That's me on the left trying to moderate the proceedings.