Now for Part 6's topic - Updates from the San Diego Comic Con will only be at our Facebook Group Page:

I will be using our new Droids that we purchased on July 4th to post whatever updates and photos that I can while at the Comic Con during the next 5 days / nights.

Those updates will be posted ONLY to our Facebook Fan Page, because each one of these blog posts you have been or are reading takes me from one to two hours to produce.  No Kidding!

So here's the link to the Facebook Group Page, which I invite you to 'join' if YOU are a Facebook Member!

Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing  a.k.a. Hamersky.com!

The hours that we will be keeping the next 5 days / nights will be ones that aren't conducive to blogging, which is why Tina and I have opted to go with 'smart phones' to do our updates.  We'll see how those work this year...!

So this blog post will be the final one before the SDCC.  For updates, photos, and more from the Comic-Con...please see the above links to the Group Page!

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

Note: Our online comic book store carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items at the link seen below.

PLEASE NOTE: Because of our long hours at the Comic-Con we won't be able to ship anything out until the week of July 26th!

http://www.comicbookscircus.com/

 

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"Hammering Out the Web For You Since May 12th, 1998!"         Note: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:   Make It So Marketing Inc. PO Box 130653 Carlsbad, CA 92013     ComicBooksCircus.com - It's Under The Big Top Of Comics! Click the Above Circus Tent to See Our Current Listings!

My thanks to those of YOU that have read today's blog post! I do appreciate that! For those of you that didn't know me before today... I first set up as a 'dealer' at the 1972 San Diego West Coast Comic Con (SDCC) at the El Cortez Hotel. So I've been around comic conventions for a little while, LOL!   My wife Tina and I now have an on-line exhibitor (dealer) table at the first "virtual" comic con titled the "Facebook Comic Con" (FBCC)! You can view our dealer table and interact with us there on Facebook by clicking this link, which takes you to our table named: 'Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing'.  So if YOU are a Facebook member, please 'join' our Facebook Comic Con - Make It So Marketing exhibitor table for updates, specials, links to this blog, and other wall comments that we post every day!     Also, if you are a Facebook member and would like to also join my Facebook Network, feel free to send a 'friend request' to 'Michael D Hamersky'. I am reaching the maximum of 5,000 Facebook Friends soon, and I don't want YOU to be left out!         ------------------- Talking about comics: if YOU are a comics creator, (writer, penciler, inker, colorist, letterer, etc.), OR even a Comics / Magazine Publisher, feel free to contact me regarding YOUR works for a possible mention / review! I've made a special blog post about: "How To Best Submit YOUR Publication For Possible Review!" for those creators / publishers that would like to possibly have their publications mentioned or reviewed. Just click on the link provided in this paragraph! ~Michael @ ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com   WEB PAGE NOTE:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards. Chrome, Safarai, Netscape, Firefox and the others serve the page up differently, sorry about that!   The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer. NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

 

Now for Part 5's topic - Names of Creators In Artists Alley & Those That I Already Know & Suggest YOU stop in and See Via the hyper-links shown in light blue color:

I will attempt in the limited amount of time available today to post links to the all of the creators listed below that I have blogged about in previous years.  There will be a hyper-link for those creators.  I am hoping to meet new creators and possibly review blog several of those creators' works that they display at this comic con.

Note: The above was a 'complete list' of those that have tables in Artists Alley as of July 19th. I noticed a few changes , and have noted them here.

The reason I am selecting the above section called 'Artists Alley' to 'spotlight' here is because it is quite often 'overlooked' by those that are there for just one or two days.  It is at the back of the exhibit floors, yet seems to have a goodly amount of traffic from those that have been to Comic-Con before and know what treasures can be found there.  

It is up to YOU, the con goer to see if this area would be of interest and or value to you.  I enjoy seeing new publications come out, and several of the above are self publishers. So I enjoy this section, as well as the 'Small Press Pavilion'.

I had wanted to include that 'Small Press Pavilion' in this blog post... Unfortunately my time is running short today.  I normally blog early in the morning, and right now it is early evening here in North San Diego County!

So I won't be including those in the Small Press Pavilion in this blog post today!

I may have time in the morning before leaving to leave a 'forwarding blog' to where I will be posting hi-lites, NOT blogs, from the San Diego Comic Con itself.  If I don't, here's the info: Those will be at my Facebook Group Page:  Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing, a.k.a. Hamersky.com.

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

Note: Our online comic book store carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items at:

http://www.comicbookscircus.com/

 

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"Hammering Out the Web For You Since May 12th, 1998!"         Note: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:   Make It So Marketing Inc. PO Box 130653 Carlsbad, CA 92013     ComicBooksCircus.com - It's Under The Big Top Of Comics! Click the Above Circus Tent to See Our Current Listings!

My thanks to those of YOU that have read today's blog post! I do appreciate that! For those of you that didn't know me before today... I first set up as a 'dealer' at the 1972 San Diego West Coast Comic Con (SDCC) at the El Cortez Hotel. So I've been around comic conventions for a little while, LOL!   My wife Tina and I now have an on-line exhibitor (dealer) table at the first "virtual" comic con titled the "Facebook Comic Con" (FBCC)! You can view our dealer table and interact with us there on Facebook by clicking this link, which takes you to our table named: 'Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing'.  So if YOU are a Facebook member, please 'join' our Facebook Comic Con - Make It So Marketing exhibitor table for updates, specials, links to this blog, and other wall comments that we post every day!     Also, if you are a Facebook member and would like to also join my Facebook Network, feel free to send a 'friend request' to 'Michael D Hamersky'. I am reaching the maximum of 5,000 Facebook Friends soon, and I don't want YOU to be left out!         ------------------- Talking about comics: if YOU are a comics creator, (writer, penciler, inker, colorist, letterer, etc.), OR even a Comics / Magazine Publisher, feel free to contact me regarding YOUR works for a possible mention / review! I've made a special blog post about: "How To Best Submit YOUR Publication For Possible Review!" for those creators / publishers that would like to possibly have their publications mentioned or reviewed. Just click on the link provided in this paragraph! ~Michael @ ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com   WEB PAGE NOTE:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards. Chrome, Safarai, Netscape, Firefox and the others serve the page up differently, sorry about that!   The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer. NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

 

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!

Thursday's Hi-Lites for Me:

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

Friday's Hi-Lites For Me:

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

Saturday Hi-Lites for Me:

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

Sunday's Hi-Lites for Me:

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

Note: Our online comic book store carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items at:

http://www.comicbookscircus.com/

 

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"Hammering Out the Web For You Since May 12th, 1998!"         Note: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:   Make It So Marketing Inc. PO Box 130653 Carlsbad, CA 92013     ComicBooksCircus.com - It's Under The Big Top Of Comics! Click the Above Circus Tent to See Our Current Listings!

My thanks to those of YOU that have read today's blog post! I do appreciate that! For those of you that didn't know me before today... I first set up as a 'dealer' at the 1972 San Diego West Coast Comic Con (SDCC) at the El Cortez Hotel. So I've been around comic conventions for a little while, LOL!   My wife Tina and I now have an on-line exhibitor (dealer) table at the first "virtual" comic con titled the "Facebook Comic Con" (FBCC)! You can view our dealer table and interact with us there on Facebook by clicking this link, which takes you to our table named: 'Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing'.  So if YOU are a Facebook member, please 'join' our Facebook Comic Con - Make It So Marketing exhibitor table for updates, specials, links to this blog, and other wall comments that we post every day!     Also, if you are a Facebook member and would like to also join my Facebook Network, feel free to send a 'friend request' to 'Michael D Hamersky'. I am reaching the maximum of 5,000 Facebook Friends soon, and I don't want YOU to be left out!         ------------------- Talking about comics: if YOU are a comics creator, (writer, penciler, inker, colorist, letterer, etc.), OR even a Comics / Magazine Publisher, feel free to contact me regarding YOUR works for a possible mention / review! I've made a special blog post about: "How To Best Submit YOUR Publication For Possible Review!" for those creators / publishers that would like to possibly have their publications mentioned or reviewed. Just click on the link provided in this paragraph! ~Michael @ ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com   WEB PAGE NOTE:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards. Chrome, Safarai, Netscape, Firefox and the others serve the page up differently, sorry about that!   The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer. NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

 

Now for Part 3's topic - 'Must See' Programs for 1st Timers:

Which are the programs, panels, signings, etc., that I am going to hi-light here. First up are the 'perennials' - programs / panels that I HAVE to see at least part of EACH year:

Special Programs That I don't want to miss even if they conflict with other programs / events would have to include some of the ones that Mark Evanier moderates. Here is his own list of those that he set out on his own blog: Mark's Comic-Con List. Mark is actually taking a day off this year, and moderating 'only' 10 panels!

Of those I would personally state if YOU are attending this Comic-Con for the 1st time, make sure you attend at least some portion of the Quick Draw, Cartoon Voice Actors - either I or II. Then take in either 'Taking Back the Knight' or 'Remembering Dick Giordano' to get a 'feel' of how Mark moderates those type of panels.  I do realize that there are a lot of choices to be made at Comic-Con, but these are 'recommended' by me to check out if you are a 1st timer. Plus Quick Draw and Cartoon Voices are always 'Family Friendly'. 

PLUS, last but definitely not least, as I have not missed one yet since Mark started this series:  The Annual Jack Kirby Tribute on Sunday morning.  The comic book industry owes so much to this one man. The guests are always fascinating, and usually rotate on who will be there, as some have come back to be guests again.  But there's always new stories to be told!  Don't miss this one!  It's on the morning of the last day of the Comic Con.

Next for you 1st timers...You have to check out the Scott Shaw! Oddball Comics Slideshow!  You get a chance to sit down, see slides of some of the funniest comic book covers ever produced, plus do it in a setting where you aren't embarassed to laugh out loud with others doing the same thing. 

Where Scott keeps coming up with these great covers, I just don't know....But YOU gotta see this Slideshow at least once during your San Diego Comic Con going visits!

This next choice may seem way out of character for me...But I always take in at least part of this program that is always during an evening of the Comic-Con. 

That would be the Ric Meyers 'Kung Fu Extravangaza' program!  Yeah, I drag Tina to this, but after being on her feet a lot of the day, she doesn't mind watching some of these excerpts from good to not-so-good kung fu flicks!  But Ric's intros to these excerpts are worth the price of sitting through the so-so ones. 

You gotta see at least part of this program during the evening. It's on Thursday evening from 8:15PM to 11:15PM in Room 6BCF.

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards is like the Oscars for the Comics Industry!

For you 1st timers, this is a 'Must See'.  That's because you will see most of the headliners in the comics industry there in person. 

They may not all be there to win awards, but they are there to cheer their peers on when the winners are announced. 

This is held Friday Night from 8:30PM to 11:30 PM. This year at the San Diego Hilton Bayfront in the Indigo Ballroom.

This is also the program where the continuing misconception comes from that there is 'free food' for the attendees at the Comic-Con. Years and years ago, that was true.  The pros were let in first to have a buffet banquet, then the ret of the attendees.  Unfortunately as the amount of attendees increased...the amount of food decreased.  Down to where there is nothing for the general attending public today.  Those were definitely the 'Good Ol' Days'!

The above are what I consider to be the 'mainstays' or 'must sees' of programs and panels for the Comic-Con that a 1st timer should attempt to attend at least some of.  I do realize how hard that is with all of the choices there are to choose from.

I was going to list what new programs / panels / signings / special events I was planning on attending next, but it looks like I am once again out of room in this post!  Looks like there will be a 'Part 4' to this Series. And if Tina wishes to share her 'pop culture choices' with the blog readers...there could be a Part 5?  Again Tina is not a comic book fan(atic), she prefers to see the 'Hollywood' programs over the 'Comics' related panels I attend!

I do want to re-emphasize this here however in case you don't see that Part 4, or take the time to read Parts 1 or 2:

That there is NO WAY you are going to be able to do everything that you want to do or see at this comic con. It is too darn big to be at two places at once, especially when something is in Hall H at one end, and then someone is signing at a booth in the Small Press Section. You can't be at both within 10 minutes, not with these crowds anymore.  And if you add on the two hotels that have programming in addition at opposite ends of the convention center, it is almost as tough as Disneyland to get from one end to the other.  So have a 'backup' plan of what you would like to see if your 1st choice is full and you can't get in! 

Again, relax, prepare well on the topics I've blogged about today and the previous days, and enjoy what you can.  Have a backup plan for a program at Hall H and Ballroom 20 because some attendees sit through several earlier programs just to see the ONE they want to see in those two halls.  Because Comic-Con STILL doesn't clear the hall between programs!

And lastly...Wear comfortable shoes...You'll be walking many miles during the Comic-Con!  

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

Note: Our online comic book store carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items at:

http://www.comicbookscircus.com/

 

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"Hammering Out the Web For You Since May 12th, 1998!"         Note: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:   Make It So Marketing Inc. PO Box 130653 Carlsbad, CA 92013     ComicBooksCircus.com - It's Under The Big Top Of Comics! Click the Above Circus Tent to See Our Current Listings!

My thanks to those of YOU that have read today's blog post! I do appreciate that! For those of you that didn't know me before today... I first set up as a 'dealer' at the 1972 San Diego West Coast Comic Con (SDCC) at the El Cortez Hotel. So I've been around comic conventions for a little while, LOL!   My wife Tina and I now have an on-line exhibitor (dealer) table at the first "virtual" comic con titled the "Facebook Comic Con" (FBCC)! You can view our dealer table and interact with us there on Facebook by clicking this link, which takes you to our table named: 'Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing'.  So if YOU are a Facebook member, please 'join' our Facebook Comic Con - Make It So Marketing exhibitor table for updates, specials, links to this blog, and other wall comments that we post every day!     Also, if you are a Facebook member and would like to also join my Facebook Network, feel free to send a 'friend request' to 'Michael D Hamersky'. I am reaching the maximum of 5,000 Facebook Friends soon, and I don't want YOU to be left out!         ------------------- Talking about comics: if YOU are a comics creator, (writer, penciler, inker, colorist, letterer, etc.), OR even a Comics / Magazine Publisher, feel free to contact me regarding YOUR works for a possible mention / review! I've made a special blog post about: "How To Best Submit YOUR Publication For Possible Review!" for those creators / publishers that would like to possibly have their publications mentioned or reviewed. Just click on the link provided in this paragraph! ~Michael @ ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com   WEB PAGE NOTE:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards. Chrome, Safarai, Netscape, Firefox and the others serve the page up differently, sorry about that!   The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer. NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.