My job is sucking a whole lot right now, so instead of talking about that, I'm going to talk about my fabulous weekend!

I went to the Falcon Ridge Falcon Festival this weekend with veryschway and her friend Jill. (Her other friends had to leave early, unfortunately.) Details behind cut, but here's the cliff notes version. Two days sitting outside on a farm ( Read more... )

I am now going to post something that will make trakkie extremely jealous.

I went to I-Con yesterday and today. This morning, jethrien, chuckro and I got there a bit before nine o'clock, and since we were insanely early (panels start at ten), and since chuckro and I were panelists this year, we went to hang out in the green room. We were sitting there, chatting, eating ( Read more... )

I see I underestimated the turn-out at NYCC. According to this week's PW, there were more than 40,000 people there. No wonder I got sick.

You remember my drawing of the line for last year's New York Comic Con? Well, today I got to Javitz at ten and saw that the line was outside the building. It went from approximately the middle of the building (circa 35th Street) down to 34th then back up to 40th Street where it turned West for half a block. So I it took me twenty minutes to walk to ( Read more... )

As I was walking out of the dealers floor yesterday, I was stopped by a middle-aged man. He asked me, "Excuse me--do you know where I could find 'graphic novels' or 'manga'?"

I looked at him agog for a moment, then pointed to the entire exhibition floor. I mean, this is a comic book convention. It's hard to avoid "graphic novels" and "manga." As I ( Read more... )

I just got back from Comic Con and am pooped. But before I take a nap, I need to relate this ( Read more... )

Crazy-insane New York Comic Con just days away! Could there be any more celebrities going? They've got Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Ray Park, Daniel Logan (Boba Fett), Nicholas Brendan and the actresses who played Kendra and Drusilla, half the cast of BSG plus your usual array of comic book stars (Stan Lee, Greg Rucka, Paul Dini) plus Stephen King... ( Read more... )