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San Diego Comic-Con, Year 2

July 30, 2013
in Blog, Comics, Road Culture, Writing
Phillip
Alan Kistler, Comic-Con, Comic-Con International, Leonard Maltin, San Diego, SDCC

A week ago, I arrived home from my second San Diego Comic-Con. It’s such a noteworthy event, it would be ridiculous not to write a blog post about the experience. But I’ve struggled with what to write about it. I imagine people who have never attended Comic-Con identify it as what they see on TV […]

July 18, 2012
in Blog, Comics, Writing
Phillip
Comic-Con, Comic-Con stabbing, Gisela Gagliardi, Hall H, Stephanie Meyer, Twilight

Comic-Con International 2012 took over the city of San Diego last week, drawing more than 130,000 patrons. It ran from July 12th through July 15th, with July 11th as a bonus “preview night.” But people were lining up a lot earlier than that. Seating 6,500, the infamous Hall H is where all the biggest panels […]

July 17, 2012
in Blog, Comics, Writing
Phillip
Blair Butler, Comic-Con, Comic-Con International, cosplay, Dave Gibbons, David Accampo, Ed Brubaker, Eric Peters, George Peters, Jeremy Rogers, Joe Hill, Karen Berger, Ron Marz, San Diego, Scott Hampton, Scott Snyder, SDCC, Sparrow and Crowe, Tom Waltz, Will Dennis

I just wrapped up my first Comic-Con International, often called “San Diego Comic-Con” by fans, and just “Comic-Con” in the press. It wasn’t my first convention. I frequent Cons on the east coast every year, Baltimore in particular. But this was my first San Diego, and for sheer size and scale it definitely warrants the […]

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