Please Consider Seeing My Panels At Comic-Con

If all goes well, I should be at San Diego Con this weekend. I'm lucky enough to be moderating a few panels and sitting on one. Here are the places I know I'll be, each with the appropriate description from the programming guide.

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* Gilbert Shelton Drawing Panel
1:00-2:00 (Thursday) CBLDF Master Session: Gilbert Shelton: With his creations The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, and Wonder Warthog among others, Comic-Con special guest Gilbert Shelton is a master of establishing iconic characters and presenting them in scenarios that underscore his expressive cartooning abilities. Get a rare glimpse into the drawing process of this master of the Underground Comix movement, hosted by Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter. The pieces created in this Master Session will be auctioned off at CBLDF's Art Auction on Saturday night. Room 11AB

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* Bookstore Panel
3:00-4:00 (Thursday) Graphic Novels: The Bookstore Crowd: The comics world looks at "mainstream comics" as the superhero crowd, the ones available in comic book stores every Wednesday. But the real mainstream comics and graphic novels are in bookstores and created by a whole different crowd, one that lacks, for the most part, capes, powers, and spandex. Comics journalist Tom Spurgeon (comicsreporter.com) talks to Comic-Con special guests Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant!), Alison Bechdel (Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama), Brecht Evens (The Making of), Jennifer and Matthew Holm (Babymouse series), Nate Powell (Any Empire), and Jason Shiga (Empire State) about their popular graphic novels that appeal to a more diverse audience in bookstores all over the world. Room 23ABC

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* Comics Blogging Panel
7:00-8:00 (Thursday) Bleeding Alliance of Beat Reporters: Andy Khouri of Comics Alliance, Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool, Heidi MacDonald of The Beat, and Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter represent the four most influential and popular blogs in the comics industry. Join them for a one-time-only chat about the changing role of comics news, how they run their sites, what makes news, and what makes a rumor. It will be either a love fest or a slug fest. Moderated by Douglas Wolk (Reading Comics). Room 23ABC

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* Prince Valiant Panel
3:30-4:30 (Friday) 75th Anniversary of Prince Valiant: Seventy-five years ago artist Harold R. Foster partnered with King Features to tell the epic adventures of Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur. After years of working on Tarzan, Foster wanted his own strip to write and draw, with his own characters fulfilling their destinies according to him. Today the strip is still going strong. Writer Mark Schultz, artists Gary Gianni and Tom Yeates, and comics historian R. C. Harvey talk to Tom Spurgeon about the enduring legacy of Foster's creation, still present in the Sunday funnies and more popular than ever in reprints of the original strips. Room 8

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* The Eisner Awards
8:00-10:30 (Friday) Syfy Presents the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: The 24th annual Eisner Awards (the "Oscars" of the comics industry) honor comics creators and works in 28 categories. Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront

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* Brecht Evens Spotlight Panel
3:30-4:30 (Saturday) Spotlight on Brecht Evens: Award-winning cartoonist, visual artist, and musician Brecht Evens is a Comic-Con special guest from Belgium. Evens will talk about his graphic novels, which have achieved wide acclaim across Europe and North America, including his latest book, The Making of. Room 8

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Everyone please travel safely. If you're where I am, I'd love to meet you.

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