CCI ‘07 Launches With Preview Night

Notes on Coverage
Scant hours from now folks will be hitting the pre-registration lines in San Diego's convention center to pick up passes for this year's Comic-Con International. Let the griping begin!

I'll be there as well, "covering" the show. I'm not sure these shows exist to be covered, and if they do, I couldn't do it all by myself. I will be providing notes on things I've heard or learned; they'll go up each morning. A wrap-up will come early next week, then an exit interview with some con official a few days after that about show issues. Since I'm going to the Eisner Awards to watch Eric Reynolds accept on Mr. Deppey's behalf, I'll likely do something on that experience as well.

Potential Story That Just Occurred to Me
I hope every pro from outside the country was able to get into the US for the show.

A Final Pair of Links
* Kelly Sue DeConnick points me towards this flickr group page set up to handle photos for 2007's show. So if you want to see a best-of photo array from this year's convention, bookmark that.

* I can't tell if J. Chris Campbell wrote to remind me that there is neat stuff to buy in San Diego, or to mock me for not being able to afford any of it. Perhaps both.

Worst San Diego Ever
Fantagraphics' Greg Zura saw yesterday's note that the under-35s need to get off their butts and make with a crazy party somewhere that we old guys can crash. He feels my pain. "Because there were no parties thrown by the under-35 crowd last year, I was forced to go to a movie theatre to watch Dupree and Me," Greg says.

Please See My Panels
I think they'll all be at least pretty good, and I'd love to see you.

Thursday
4:00-5:00 Spotlight on Guy Delisle -- Guy Delisle is the cartoonist behind the bestselling and critically acclaimed Drawn & Quarterly graphic novels Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China. In his first U.S. appearance, Delisle will be interviewed about his work by comicsreporter.com editor Tom Spurgeon. Room 3

Saturday
10:30-11:30 Meet the Press: Writing About Comics -- From blogs to books to magazines, the public conversation about comics is livelier -- and faster -- than it's ever been. Heidi MacDonald (Publishers Weekly), Nisha Gopalan (Entertainment Weekly), Tom Spurgeon (The Comics Reporter), Tom McLean (Variety), Graeme McMillan (The Savage Critics), and moderator Douglas Wolk (Reading Comics) discuss the state of the art of comics criticism. Room 3

1:30-2:30 Great American Comic Strips -- We're living in a Golden Age of comic strip reprints, and this panel discusses the many ongoing series of books devoted to this great American art form. Moderator Tom Spurgeon (Comicsreporter.com) talks to Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics Books (Peanuts, Krazy Kat, Popeye and the upcoming Pogo); Carolyn Kelly, daughter of Pogo creator Walt Kelly; Tom Devlin of Drawn and Quarterly (Walt and Skeezix, Moomin, Oh Skin-nay); Bruce Canwell of IDW (Terry and the Pirates, Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie); Steve Tippie, VP, marketing and licensing, Tribune Media Services; Charles Pelto of Classic Comics Press (Mary Perkins On Stage, Dondi); and noted comics historian and author R. C. Harvey (Meanwhile... A Biography of Milton Caniff, Creator of Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon) about the sudden growth of high-quality chronological reprints and the art of the American comic strip. Room 4

Everybody please travel safely.
 
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