With the San Diego Comic Con coming up this weekend, Sally is deciding between the 1970s or 2017 version of her favorite character.
Tag: San Diego Comic-Con
The following are some pics from 1998 of my jaunt out to the West Coast to attend the San Diego Comic-Con. Deb found me an affordable place to stay not too far away from the convention center, with my last night staying over at fellow Kubert School Alumnus Tom Toby’s place.
Still remember playing a James Bond video game until the wee hours and laughing my ass off with how little I couldn’t control my shooter – the view from other players was my character running in circles with his head down shooting everywhere. Good times.
Some recollections I jotted down at the time.
• Waking up and going into Tom’s back yard to get some “San Diego sunshine” only to have my face immediately entwined in spiderwebs that were strung between bushes on either side of me, then running around like a crazy person trying to get them off – frantic thoughts of the huge spiders (black widows?) we had previously seen in the front yard.
• Watching a bootleg copy of a pilot for the Justice League with a pot-bellied David Ogden Stiers as the Martian Manhunter.
• Mark’s rental car having the futuristic miracle of GPS.
• Commiserating about the biz for awhile with Jim Mooney – then getting a “discount rate” of $40 for one of his signed Man-Thing pages. He also gave advice regarding selling originals, “Some pieces through a dealer will sell for top dollar, otherwise price to sell.”
• Meeting Steve Leialoha and having him sign a Howard the Duck page I had recently purchased that he had inked.
• Peter Maresca’s booth having a ton of old Sunday comic sections from the 1930’s – Beautiful!
• Looking for Mark McMurray before Eisners, but limiting my search to between two food stations.
• Excerpt from Evan Dorkin’s acceptance speech upon winning an Eisner, “Since no one else used their time allotment (for acceptance speeches), I’ll use them.”
My only regret is that I didn’t take more pictures. Hoping to make it out there again in the not too distant future…