Saturday at Comicon
Saturday was great. It was totally mobbed, but I was ready. I relaxed at the hotel after breakfast then headed over around 12:30. I got time to look around a bit before my signing at the Prism comics booth. I stopped by the Oni booth (where I photographed the Sidescrollers poster)
Giant Robot, visited Dave, Raina, and John. Also said hi to Jim Balent and Holly G.
I saw Glenn Danzig hanging out at their booth on Friday (!). While I was signing at Prism’s booth I was right next to the Top Cow booth where Seth Green had a signing and he was less than 3 feet from me. He even turned to me, smiled and waved. Eee! But the line in front of him was so long there was no way I could actually get in there to say hi and maybe give him a copy of Dolltopia T_T It was really cool anyway, he seems like a nice guy. I also made an effort to take a few costumed photos.
Then of course I went to see the Brisco County Jr. panel with Bruce Campbell. The line was outrageous! It’s definitely better to see him when he’s touring bookstores than at a convention where EVERYBODY wants to see him. Still it was fun and I got an inflatable Brisco County Jr. hobby horse. Weird swag! There was a fan with an incredibly accurate Ash costume there too.
Anyway, Bruce was great as usual. He really knows how to handle fans in Q&A sessions. Then I went to the Gays in Comics panel which I got to be on with Andy Mangels, Gail Simonson, Greg Rucka, Phil Jiminez, Patty Jeres, and Marc Andreyko. It was really well attended and In the Life TV was taping it! The panel went well and was also really moving. Phil actually got us a bit weepy there.
Afterwards a teenage fan came up and had me sign his copy of Tough Love, telling me it really touched him. Experiences like that make the whole trip worth it!
Then I went out with Mr. Tim to dinner at an Irish pub, I think Matt would have liked it a lot. They had good potato leek soup and Bailey’s Irish cream cheesecake. Yum! Then back to the hotel to socialize a tad at the Hyatt bar and then pass out again.