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It Is The Comics Blogosphere! As Discussed At The 2008 SDCC Comic Con International! This special program was held on the first day of the 2008 San Diego Comic Con International. It was held in Room 32AB, which is one of the smaller medium sized meeting rooms at the San Diego Convention Center. Attendance was light... However the hour from 6:00-7:00 PM went very fast for this panel, which was called "The Comics Blogosphere". The panel was a presentation to have each of the panelists explain their part in the blog explosion, which has opened up a new frontier for comics criticism. The panelists from left to right in the photos were: The moderator Douglas Wolk (blogs: Reading Comics). Tim Robins (blogs: Mindless Ones). Laura Hudson (blogs: Myriad Issues). Jeff Lester (blogs: The Savage Critic(s)). David Brothers (blogs: 4thletter!). Douglas's main point during the program was that "Letter columns don't exist any more either!" (Regarding comic books dropping their letter pages in lieu of another ad or story page.) Tony stated that 'fanzines are dead'. Worst thing on internet for him is that "there is a lot of flaming going on". He enjoys blogging, because his writing style is more essay-like. His big point was that he has been involved in Dr Who fandom for 20 years but never was asked to be on a panel until his blog on comics appeared! Laura grew up online, got interested in comics, and blogging was a natural outgrowth for her as she is pretty opionated she said! Jeff Lester was the webmaster for Brian Hibbs' online comic store. Brian was doing the blogging at first, but Jeff started posting a few blogs, and then ended up getting opionated, and wanted to get credit for his opinions! David Brothers started off in fan fiction. The blogging format was a natural evolution for him. When Laura mentioned she checked her stats on a regular basis that piqued my interest. So I asked the panel at the Q & A session what their traffic was like. None of the 5 panelists really wanted to discuss their number of visitors, page views, etc. It would appear from their answers that blogging still has a ways to go to hit larger numbers of viewership! However these five panelists are just a few of the hundreds of comics fans that are blogging! Thanks for reading this blog post today and please join us again for more! - Michael |  I had read a few blogs by each of the Bloggers that appeared at the 2008 SDCC San Diego Comic Con International Special Panel. This was so as to get a 'feel' as to what topics they were blogging about. First photo, left to right are: Douglas Wolk - moderator, and Tim Robins.  This second photo shows Douglas Wolk, Tim Robins, and Laura Hudson.  This third photo shows Jeff Lester and David Brothers. All photos were taken by Michael D Hamersky at the SDCC San Diego Comic Con International on July 24th, 2008.
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