The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Shows And Events
By Tom Spurgeon
* Mark Evanier reminds that we're in Bill Finger awards season. Nominate with passion.
* speaking of Mark, I also liked his write-up on the convention being dragged into some of the football negotiations going on. You can't believe anything said on the show's behalf because the needs of the con are so specific that it's astonishing to think any other entity could even try. I've been staring at Comic-Con International since 1994 and I don't have them figured out.
* we're mid-SPX table registration lottery, which is a very specific form of quiet. I know that even with the explosion of shows and opportunities that a lot of people still fairly count on SPX table placement to focus their year and make a couple of grand that can work against show costs both in Bethesda and throughout the year. I'm not sure it's healthy, but it certainly happens.