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Guess Who's Coming to Comic-Con?

We are just days away from this year's International Comic-Con conference in San Diego, the widely popular comic book convention.  With approximately 125,000 fans expected to walk thru the doors of the San Diego Convention Center, this conference features some of the biggest names in comics and pop culture (see list).  Our bags are packed and we can't wait to be a part of this great event.

On Thursday, July 26th, GoComics will be presenting a panel of creative professionals to discuss how mobile comics and animation fit into the multiple-media delivery of popular entertainment (click here for details). Come and meet some of the producers and creators who are making this happen.  Participants include Jeff Webber, uclick/GoComics content director; Jeremy Ross, TOKYOPOP director, new content development; Richard Starkings, Active Images editor/designer, creator of Elephantmen; and Steven Calcote, Menfond Electronic Art producer/animator. Room 2 / Categories:  Comic Books | Webcomics

We will also be giving demonstrations and presentations all weekend at the TOKYOPOP booth.  Look for photos and posts from the conference floor--See you there!

Photos from Comic Con Thursday!

The first one's our booth during setup, the second is Caveman Robot (our neighbor), the third is not nearly as representative of the lines outside as it should have been (they were long), the fourth is our mobile panel and the last is a photo of a couple of Tusken Raiders.

Now, tired from walking, demo-ing phones and food poisoning (whee!), I sleep.

Preview Night, Thursday morning

I haven't managed to get internet set up in my hotel room (yes, it is very easy, what can I say?  Late nights, too many blue lagoons, the rush of convention center madness...I'll do it today and upload pictures this evening.  I swear).

Last night was Preview Night, and there was a surprisingly large crowd.  It's bigger than I remember it being last year, and our booth is really cool.  We have some books on display, apparently our calendar division will be doing the "Snakes on a Plane" calendar for 2007 (OMG!  SOAP!) and our bookmarks turned out really well. 

So far, I have seen the Burger King Jedi, a woman dressed as a Twi'leck (sp? the blue/green dancer lady from "Return of the Jedi"), a snow trooper, a clone trooper, an excellent Luigi and Princess Peach...in some cases, I managed to get photos, but sometimes they were just too far away.  Next year, I'm going to bring a better camera.  Occasionally, my current camera (one of those tiny one-shot deals from a few years ago) think it's more important to show a blank screen with occasional static than to take pictures of the wonders here.

The Nintendo booth is huge, and equipped with a ton of DS Lites.  Actually, the gaming booths are pretty awesome, and I hope to get a chance to stop by some time this weekend.  The dude from that VH1 show "Can't Get a Date?  Yes you can..." is wandering around.  I think he works for one of the RPG publishers (the one who always wore sunglasses and had two pairs of pants or something?  can't remember the name, but it *must* be him).  The TOKYOPOP booth looks really good, and I'll be doing my first presentation today at 4.  I'm a little nervous, but I think it'll be fine.

We're in booth 1220, across from the Caveman Robot booth (it's very awesome, and babies seem to love Caveman Robot), right down the lane from Penny Arcade and Dumbrella.