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TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3192: Now it's only 5 days away until the 2010 Comic-Con International: San Diego, (a.k.a. SDCC), opens its doors for Preview Night! As stated in this blog series in Part 1, Part 2, AND Part 3, Tina & I will be there for all 5 days and 4 nights. Tina has been going since 2001 when we were engaged. That was also the year that Hollywood 'discovered' Comic-Con. For those of you that didn't know...I first set up as a comic book dealer back at the El Cortez Hotel in 1972 when the SDCC was at that venue. So we both have different expectations and outlooks about this comic convention. This pre-con check off list, which is now in its' 4th Part today, is what we will be preparing with between now and when leave to drive down to the San Diego Convention Center. We are lucky that the Comic-Con is only 35 miles South of us here in Carlsbad, California at this time. I will NOT be recapping here today what was already blogged about in the earlier three blogs. So please read them via the links already provided above. ------------Now for Part 4's topic - Program Hi-Lites that hold interest for Me: I already posted in Part 3 on the 'perennials' - programs / panels that I HAVE to see at least part of EACH year. Now due to 'popular demand' here are the programs / panels that I want to see that are either brand new for this year, or the panel gets changed every year so there isn't any true continuity other than the name of the program. Please Note: these are due to my own tastes which run more toward comics & comics retailing, not the 'pop culture' aspect of this con, which is what my wife, Tina, normally attends. Also, I know in advance that I will NOT be able to attend all of these, but I must have a 'back up plan' if I am not able to get into Hall H or Ballroom 20, or some of the much smaller rooms that if popular would be SRO or the doors closed!
Tripwire Magazine Comics Arts Conference Session #3: Siegel and Shuster Spotlight on Tom Palmer Stan Lee at Sails Pavilion - Autographs Overstreet Comic book Price Guide Turns 40 Spotlight on Jenette Kahn Spotlight on Howard Cruse TV Guide Magazine: A Quantum Leap Retrospective DC Comics' 75th Anniversary Indie Comics Marketing 101 The Antidote Trust's Indie Comics Superhero Kung Fun Extravaganza
Neal Adams & Stan Lee: They Spoke Out Retailing in the Digital Age Spotlight on Paul Levitz: Remembering Frank Frazetta and Al Williamson A Tribute to Ken Krueger Spotlight on Stan Lee Spotlight on the Adams Family: Neal, Jason, Joel & Josh Falling Skies Shout! Factory: Roger Corman Branching Out: The National Comic Book Store Franchise TV Guide Magazine: the 2010 Hot List Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards SyFy Friday Night Screening: EUReKA & Haven Worst Cartoons Ever
Chuck Screening and Q&A The Black Panel 2010 The Event: World-Premiere Pilot Screening and Q&A Quick Draw Behind the Scenes with Joe Ruby & Ken Spears and more V Screening and Q&A Helen Slater at Sails Pavilion for autographs Fringe Screening and Q&A Warehouse 13 and EUReKA Oddball Comics Remembering Shel Dorf Bill Everett: From Sub-Mariner to Daredevil Marvel Studios: Thor and Captain America films Human Target Screening and Q&A Remembering Dick Giordano With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Jack Kirby Tribute ABC's Castle: Nathan Fillion & Stana Katic Spotlight on Dennis O'Neil The Digital Age of Comics
NOTE: The above are what I consider to be the 'hi-lites' for ME to see for the 2010 Comic-Con. The want to see list is actually longer, with other programs / panels / signings that I would have interest in, but are a backup program in case I can't make the ones above. There is just too much to see, PLUS I want to walk the exhibitor floor as well. The list I made of programs in Part 3 are the ones I believe that a 1st timer should attempt to attend at least some of. The ones listed here today in Part 4 are my own personal taste and background. I do realize how hard it is to attend everything a person would want to see with all of the choices there are to choose from. This could be the END of this mini-blog series about the Pre Con Check Off List for the SDCC...Unless Tina wishes to share her 'pop culture choices' of programs she wants to see, with the blog readers...If she has time to do so before we have to close down the business on next Wednesday. Again Tina is not a comic book fan(atic), she prefers to see the 'Hollywood' programs over the 'Comics' related panels that I attend! Or..If I want to do a Part 5 of what creators tables to see in Artists Alley. Last year I went stopped briefly at all 200 tables for possible blog topics. As of this morning, I have not yet outlined who is there. I'd like to see them all, at least briefly... Or...What Small Press booths I will be checking out for possible blog topics also. I know of a few already that have invited me to stop at their booths for review copies for my blog. I'll have to see how my schedule goes over the weekend...After all, it's only 5 days away till Preview Night...for which we leave for at Noontime PST! That's it for today...My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now over the 3,190 total posts in number! ~ Michael D Hamersky @ ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com
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