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I’ll be in San Diego next week, lurking around Comic Con, hanging out at Tr!ckster, and showing The Worst Cartoons Ever. You will be seeing a lot of people walking around with this bag (above) which will be handed to all attendees of Comic Con.
It’s the official carry-bag of the Comic Con, designed by Warner Bros. Worldwide TV Marketing. They feature artwork from 10 different Warner Bros. titles (TV series, video games, DC Comics) on one side, with official Comic-Con 2011 artwork (also designed by WB WW TV Mktg) on the other. For the first time ever, the giant-sized (24″x28″) bag converts into a backpack, making it more functional. And, yes, the protective poster tube remains intact.
A 3D film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’The Three Musketeers will hit theaters in October 14th. The official trailer is embedded above–what do you think?
The film stars Percy Jackson actor Logan Lerman as a young D’Artagnan. Other cast members include Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom, and Milla Jovovich.
Last year at Comic-Con 2010, MovieWeb caught up with director Paul W.S. Anderson who promised fans, “We’re being relatively faithful to the book…we’re telling it in a very modern way but it is the classic [Dumas] story.”
Check out Bob's post on Comic Con New York over at the Capstone blog! (And don't forget — over at Capstone Connect, every Friday is Fiction Friday. Join us!)
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Dr. Robin S. Rosenberg, co-editor of What is a Superhero, author of Superhero Origins: What Makes Superheroes Tick & Why We Care (forthcoming 2011). Take the SUPERHERO SURVEY!
Comic-Con predictions (New York Magazine ranks the post-preview buzz around upcoming "tent-pole" releases with 'Scott Pilgrim' named biggest winner and a lukewarm reception to the "Green Hornet" trailer spelling trouble ahead. More on what went... Read the rest of this post
Comic-Con 2010 (Debates over digital comics and the future of the industry heat up the convention floor. Also Stan Lee unveils three new superheroes [pictured here], 'Scott Pilgrim' premieres, more backlash against 3D and a new fleet of toys for... Read the rest of this post
'Green Lantern' heats up Comic-Con (and the cover of a special preview edition of Entertainment Weekly. Also Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up for a remake of vampire soap opera "Dark Shadows." Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Author Seth... Read the rest of this post
Graphic novels for kids panel #1. Gene Yang, Derek Kirk Kim, the fabulous Jenni Holm, Eric Wright, Lewis Trondheim, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Chris Schweizer.
Alloy's first official digital slate (Newly formed digital division Banks & Reed announce three original teen web series coming this summer and fall. This includes an adaptation of YA book Hollywood is like High School with Money [pictured here]... Read the rest of this post
Today we're bringing you our monthly roundup of cool youth media and marketing events you or colleagues from your company may want to attend. If your company hosts an event relevant to the youth media or marketing space that you'd like us to... Read the rest of this post
FCC gets an earful for 'Family Guy' (as the most frequent offender for broadcast indecency. Surprised? Also has MTV become more lax towards violent behavior in the "The Real World' cast?) (Los Angeles Times) (Best Week Ever)
- Recession Kids (super... Read the rest of this post
Today we're bringing you our monthly roundup of cool youth media and marketing events you or colleagues from your company may want to attend. If your company hosts an event relevant to the youth media or marketing space that you'd like us to... Read the rest of this post
Just last month, the rest of the world watched as 150,000 people descended upon the sunny harbor city of San Diego for one purpose: to feast their eyes on everything that the comic book, publishing, film, television, and video game worlds have to offer. Yes, I’m talking about Comic Con International, the largest comic book convention and pop culture phenomenon in the world. Over the past five summers, I’ve had the pleasure of attending this event, and I’ve seen a lot of great product and met a lot of great people. This year was no different, as Stone Arch Books sent me to San Diego in hopes of signing a few more great illustrators to add to our already amazing talent pool. Over two days, I reviewed over 100 portfolios and collected lots and lots of free posters, catalogs, and whatever else I could get my hands on, also known as SWAG (“Stuff We All Get”). Not only that, Comic Con is a great way to get our name out to those who may not yet know us. It’s no coincidence that we now have a working relationship with DC Comics – they found us at Comic Con!
Below are a few snapshots I took while traversing the vast landscape of booths and exhibits (not to mention negotiating the massive throng of people). Until next year...
Bob Lentz Art Director Stone Arch BooksThe San Diego Convention Center, home of Comic Con International for 4 1/2 days each July. It’s interesting to note that a vast majority of this convention center was added to house the ever-expanding Comic Con, which in the last 10 years has grown exponentially thanks to big budget superhero films and hyper-realistic video games.
DC Comics consistently has one of the best (and largest) booths at Comic Con, and they offer many great freebies and promotional items. I waited in line for one half hour just to get some posters and buttons. Well worth it.
Just a small sampling of the many costumed Con-goers who masquerade through the halls of the San Diego Convention Center each year. Seen here are a few alien creatures from the “Star Wars” films.
Captain Jack Sparrow from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” film series. Is it really Johnny Depp, or a wax figure? You decide. (Actually, it’s another costumed attendee who just happened to look strikingly like the real Mr. Depp...!)
Myself (right) and C.S. Jennings (left), the soon-to-be legendary illustrator on our “Incredible Rockhead” series from Graphic Sparks. C.S. had a booth this year in the small press area, where many freelance illustrators and self-employed comic book artists go to peddle their wares and drum up business. It’s worth mentioning that that is exactly how we came to work with C.S. in the first place – finding him at Comic Con several years ago!
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Comic-Con cont'd (a nice overview of what generated buzz and what fell short in San Diego last week. Also ReadWriteWeb takes a closer look at the "Avatar" toys integrated with augmented reality. And sci-fi blog i09 pans the pilot of The CW's... Read the rest of this post
Today is Wonder Woman’s birthday! Well, actually it’s Lynda Carter’s birthday. But she was Wonder Woman, right? Because of her TV show, every young girl and boy in America knew about those bullet-repelling bracelets and the lasso of truth. The real DC Wonder Woman made her debut in the 40s, along with her Justice League buddies Superman and Batman.
I’m thinking a lot about Wonder Woman these days because, starting in January 2010, we will be introducing her to a whole new generation of kids as part of our DC Super Heroes chapter books. The books are in final edit and the new covers have just been finished. Wonder Woman – Princess Diana of the Amazons. She’s strong, she’s fearless, and she’s intelligent. Google created a new logo to celebrate this year's Comic-con, and it includes Wonder Woman. Why? Because she’s an icon for the 21st Century. She practically invented girl power.
And those bracelets are still working!
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Panel: Wonder Women—Female Power Icons in Pop Culture.
“They say there aren’t enough good roles for women. That’s because Eliza Dushku is playing them all.” (On Dollhouse.)
Sigourney Weaver: “Ripley could take Clint Eastwood in a fight.”
Will Juliet return to LOST this season? Says Elizabeth Mitchell: “That depends on whether or not Jack’s plan worked.”
Zoë Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek) on women in action roles: “We fight against a room full of men over why we can’t wear pants for all the running, the fighting…They think I can do it in a skirt and Gucci boots.”
Missed the end of the panel because the baby, who’d been an angel up to that point, had had enough. Had strategically placed myself on an aisle seat next to an exit just in case I needed to slip out. Slipped out. Headed down to the mad crush of the main hall and found—our favorite superhero of all.
Hannah makes a good point. San Diego Comic-Con is just a week away, and I’ve been poring over the schedule. The LOST panel, oh I’m there. And there’s a Dollhouse thing I plan to attend, baby permitting. The “Female Power Icons in Pop Culture” panel with Sigourney Weaver and Elizabeth Mitchell (that’s Juliet to you LOST fans) sounds interesting, but it’s early on, before my parents arrive to take over the child-wrangling.
Here are the schedules. Anything here strike your fancy, O Bonny Glen friends? Any events you’d especially like to hear more about? Any particular comic-book-or-pop-culture-related topics you’d like to discuss? You know how I suffer from option paralysis…
I was lucky enough to be able to attend a day of New York Comic Con this year, and let me tell you, it was amazing! It was my first time attending a con like this, and I felt right at home among my fellow geeks. I got tons of free loot, and a few things I was happy to pay for. And panels! And heroes! And costumes! Here’s my (kind of late) recap.
When is it normal to see Stormtroopers in full armor wandering around? Why, at Comic Con, of course! Members of the 501st Legion were definitely in attendance this year, and I was so excited to see that I completely forgot to take any pictures.
Turns out that was kind of the theme of the day—my head was so busy looking this way and that that the camera rarely came out of the bag. As a result, I don’t really have awesome visuals to share, but I did get a picture of a guy drawing an amazing and huge piece of chalk art, and of course, the ghostbusters!
Even without pictures to remind me, Comic Con was an event I will never forget. Being in the book industry, my favorite part was, of course, getting to stop by all the different publishers’ booths and see what they have coming up. And get free loot, of course! Michael, another OUPer who went, and I each took home a pretty decent haul, along with a few purchases.
Publishing has a huge presence at Comic Con, and I know I missed a few booths, but one that I absolutely made sure to stop by was the Tor booth, because they have something coming out soon that I’ve been anticipating for YEARS: A Memory of Light, the last book in the Wheel of Time series. Still no official date, but I’m told that yes, it really will be coming in the Fall of this year.
The poor kids at the Bantam Dell booth spent most of their days telling people that yes, the next George R.R. Martin novel really is scheduled to come out this fall, yes, September is correct, yes, it will be arriving soon. And of course, that was the question I asked too. But hey, I got my answer! A Dance with Dragons will arrive in time for me to give it to my brother for Christmas.
Frank Beddor, the author of the awesome Looking Glass Wars series was on hand signing books. I was sorry I hadn’t brought my copy of the first book to get signed, but he and I had a great chat about the fact that I had just finished Seeing Redd on the Kindle, and he had no idea they were even available electronically! He was lovely and signed a poster for me and gave me a free cd of music inspired by the series, as Sunday was also my birthday. He told me he just sent off a manuscript to his editor, so the next book in the series should be coming soon.
The best of the loot I received, in my opinion, is a galley of the sixth book in the Ranger’s Apprentice series from the Penguin booth. Why, exactly, was this a great score? Well, I literally just picked up the first book in the series last week, and as soon as I had book six in hand, I went home and devoured the first one. Now, I’m off to the bookstore to pick up the other four books so I can get to my shiny prize. (Sidenote: Yes, the first one really was that good. I’m a sucker for good YA lit. Luckily I have a giftcard. Additional sidenote: I did go to the bookstore after I wrote that last night, and bought the next three books. I have devoured two of them already.)
Of course, there were tons of other publishers’ booths that I visited, and all sorts of comics, video games, and toy booths as well. But you can tell that I’m in the right industry—the books are what stick out in my mind.
For more complete roundups of Con events and activities, here are some links. Publishers Weekly has a nice recap, and their own blogger Barbara Vey was in attendance. Blog io9 has, of course, a great post about con costumes, and there are great roundups at the Tor blog and Suvudu, the Random House sci-fi/fantasy blog.
As a closing note, I wanted to share with you this brief line from the con guide book: “8 Hours of Sleep + 3 meals a Day + 1 Shower = A Happy and Healthy NYCC Atendee.”
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Whew. As has always been my comic book convention experience, the weekend was exhausting but sooo much fun. That it fell on this particular weekend was a bummer, though, because a bunch of my girlfriends were at an entirely different conference on the other side of the country, and I (sob) could not be in two places at once.
Looking at all the beautiful pictures from the FCL Conference gave me such a smile, because talk about a study in contrasts! Here’s what their weekend looked like.
Here’s what mine looked like.
Scott had to work at the con Wednesday night, Thursday, Friday, and through the weekend. My mother arrived bright and early Saturday morning, and I brought her home from the airport, gave her a hug, and abandoned her with the children for the next two days. More or less.
On Saturday, while Scott worked at the WildStorm booth and did portfolio review and all that editor stuff they pay him for, I strolled up and down the convention center taking in the sights. There is always a lot to take in.
View from the DC Comics green room.
Saw eye to eye, Yoda and I did.
After a while, you’ve seen so much it all becomes a blur.
Sometimes you just need to sit down and take a little breather.
Fortunately, Scott got a late lunch break just in time for us to hook up with our beloved (and gorgeous) college friend Kristen, her husband Vinny, and Vinny’s Attack of the Show co-producer, Joshua. We survived the cattle crossing that is the big intersection right outside the convention center
and wandered into the Gaslamp District in search of a good place to eat.
Speaking of cattle crossings, we passed these characters just hanging out on a streetcorner.
Rumor has it they were a promo for the TV show Fringe.
The restaurant that boasted of having award-winning meatloaf had a 45-minute wait, so hmph to them. We found ourselves at Fred’s Mexican Cafe, and oh my goodness. The complimentary chips and salsa were so good they nearly made us weep.
Kristen took this picture of me basking in post-salsa contentment.
After stuffing ourselves with cajun shrimp tacos (oh. my. goodness.) and carnitas burritos, we waddled back down the street toward the Con. OK, I waddled. Scott had to dash ahead to get back for booth duty. Kristen and I took our time. We passed Joss Whedon on the street. Kristen greeted him with what is now my favorite greeting ever. He grinned. Then we reached Kristen’s hotel and said a weepy goodbye. L.A. is just too dang far away. At least, as the car drives.
Back to the Con for me, where I visited artist friends until Scott was finished at the booth. Tim Sale shook his head in amazement at the news that we are expecting again. I told him we figure there won’t be any Social Security by the time we’re old enough to draw it, so we’re making sure we have plenty of children around to take care of us. He said, “Good point. It’ll be an agrarian society by then anyway, so you’ll need all those kids to work the farm.” Ha.
It was around that time that I had a little bag crisis. The bag I’d brought with me (this delicious creation by Beauty That Moves) turned out to be just a leetle too small for the event. My camera was perched too near the top, just begging to be snatched. What choice did I have? There was this booth full of big ole bags with zippers, and one of them was lime green. Seriously, what choice did I have. OK. I admit it. I have a little problem when it comes to bags. In fact, just minutes later when my husband was introducing me to one of his favorite writers in the comics industry (Kelley Puckett, whom I’ve been hearing about—and reading—for fifteen years, but somehow had never met until this weekend!), he broke off in mid-sentence and said, “Hey, is that a new bag?” I said, “Hmm? What?” And he turned to Kelley and said, “My wife has only two flaws.” (He’s wrong about that, but it was sweet.) “Number one: her ridiculous affection for me. Number two: her compulsion for bags.” I can’t deny it. I am so thrifty and purchase-cautious when it comes to clothes and furniture and household items and pretty much everything except books and handbags. I mean, it’s not like I buy a bag a month or anything like that. But three or four a year, yeah, maybe. It’s a quest, see, for the perfect bag. As pretty as this one but with lots of pockets and a sturdy bottom and some kind of inherent magic that will make me always be able to locate my keys when I need to. That kind of bag.
But I digress.
Our Saturday evening wrapped up with what is for me the best part of a comic book convention. We wound up in the Hyatt bar eating appetizers and drinking beer (ginger ale for me) with a group of writers and artists. I love this, the jovial camaraderie and stimulating discussion of a community of creative colleagues. Our Barcelona pal Andy Diggle was there (but no Jock, alas), and Kelley Puckett joined us, and Fiona Staples (Scott’s artist on Jack Hawksmoor), and a bunch of WildStorm people, and assorted other folks wandering in and out. We stayed up talking too late and dragged ourselves home well past midnight.
And then poor Scott had to start all over at 9 a.m. on Sunday. I lingered at home, took the girls to Mass, played with my little ones. I didn’t want to take a second car into the convention-center madness, so I parked at the trolley station near our house and took the orange line downtown. And what an interesting trolley ride that was. I Twittered the experience (scroll down to “waiting for the trolley” and read upwards) and was probably lucky the Loud Girl didn’t know I was recording her rantings for all the internet to see. I told Scott you know it’s been a freaky train ride when it’s a relief to get back to all the nice, sane people at Comic-Con.
Like these guys.
I am proud to say I bought no bags on Sunday (although the blue soldier guy’s messenger bag up there is kind of cute, isn’t it). I took in the sights and drank free DC Comics cranberry juice and met more nice artists and attended the WildStorm panel. And then it was back to the Hyatt for more food & fun with Fiona and Andy (but no Kelley this time) and Mike Costa and Neil Googe and other engaging, talented folks. Scott, Mike, Andy, and I spent a good three hours talking about the nature of story. That, my friends, is why I go to comic conventions.
Later we stopped by a party hosted by Mark Buckingham, Bill Willingham, and Matt Sturges, but I was too tired to stay long. My obliging hubby took me home where I snuggled up next to my baby who is no longer a baby and dreamed about absolutely nothing, because I was that wiped out.
Dan Don Santos was one of the awesome artist I got to see at Comic Con this weekend. His work always takes my breath away, and seeing some of it in person was incredible. This is a trailer from Massive Black for the upcoming DVD on painting book covers. You know what is on my wish list.
I was at the New York Comic Con on Friday (hence my lack of posting), to appear on a panel on "Helping Bookstores Buy and Shelve Comics for KIDS". Since it was industry-only hours, there were about as many folks on the panel as in the audience, and I probably learned more from myfellowpanelists than I really contributed. Still, it was a good conversation... and it meant I got a nice speaker badge so I could wander the floor of Comic Con for free. It was still a bit too early for the Storm Troopers and Power Girls to be strutting their stuff, so I had a much milder experience than last year. But still, I:
-got an awesome slap bracelet from Ari at Del Rey Manga -caught up with the incomparable Gina Gagliano at First Second -talked with the Oni Press guys about the trade edition of Local by Brian Wood -picked up a catalog with action figures from The Warriors -got some cool buttons from the DC Comics booth -experience a little bit of sensory overload -- practice for BEA! - did not see con coordinator extraordinaire Lance Fensterman -- luckily he posed on his blog...
Despite the always grueling walk to and from the Javitz Center, it was a good day.
Being there also reminded me of another cool day coming up: Free Comic Book Day! Saturday, May 3, at a comic shop near you, they'll be handing out grab bags of free issues, so you can read more of your favorites and discover something new. As I mentioned two years ago -- I think bookstores should do this too. What about Galley Giveaway Day?
Ann Kingman over at Books on the Nightstand has another idea for bookstores taken from another industry. Friday the 19th, I've just learned, was also Record Store Day: a collective day of celebration and consciousness-raising for independent record stores, with performances, sales, signings, and other promos. The New York Times had an article on the phenomenon -- see if any of this sounds familiar:
“Record stores as we know them are dying,” said Josh Madell of Other Music. “On the other hand, there is still a space in the culture for what a record store does, being a hub of the music community and a place to find out about new music.”...
[Regina] Spektor, who started off selling homemade CDs and is now signed to a major label, Sire, said that independent stores had been the first to carry her music, and that their support helped her career take off. And though she said she now feels contrite that for years her music collection was made up mainly of items copied from friends — “I just had no money” — she is supporting the stores out of gratitude.“I’m the record label-slash-store nightmare,” Ms. Spektor said. “Everything I had was a mixtape or a burned CD. But I don’t like the idea of all the record stores where people actually know what they’re talking about going out of business. They have their own art form.”... Although many have been shuttered, more than 2,400 independent shops still exist around the country.... Products that aren’t fundamentally made up of ones and zeros — vinyl records, for instance, which have a habit of turning casual fans into collectors — have proved a salvation for many retailers."
Full disclosure: I adore Regina Spektor (I bought her first album at indie Rebel Rebel on Bleecker Street), and I totally forgive her for making copies of CDs, just like I totally get all of the struggling artists buying used books online or borrowing them or going to the library. And I admire her for getting clued in to what indie music stores have done for her, just as many authors have done. I think the un-digitizable appeal of vinyl has something to teach us as book purveyors. I think the winnowing down of the indie record store industry, and also its persistence due to its irreplaceable offerings, has a lot of parallels with bookstores. And I think this industry wide day of celebration, education, and showcasing what's great about indie music stores is something we could all learn from.
Happy reading -- happy listening!
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An item of note is that my trip to my local record store on Saturday resulted in the purchase of vinyl. I have been a fully digital girl for a few years now, but I really miss the "experience" of the album -- cover art, liner notes, lyrics. CDs do not provide this experience, in my opinon, the way that vinyl does. Of particular interest, though, is that many of the Vinyl offerings included a code for a free digital download of the album. For me, that's the best of both worlds -- the record store gets the sale, I get the vinyl to enjoy at home, and the digital for my ipod, without having to buy the same album multiple times. I can see this working for books as well -- I would love to have my favorite cookbooks on an e-reader to take to the grocery store, but of course I want the physical book at home.
lady t said, on 4/21/2008 2:13:00 PM
I was at Comic Con,too,with my sister who was one of the exhibitors. Her first collection of comic strips,A List of Grievances,debuted at the Free Lunch Comics booth.
It was great,being there-I got to see Stan Lee(at a panel promoting his new superhero line from Virgin Comics)and the leading men of the CBS vampire show Moonlight,plus see Frank Miller talk about his film version of The Spirit.
Also attended a panel for a short story anthology coming out this summer called Who Can Save Us Now? It was a good talk,and I'm really looking forward to the book.
P. J. Grath said, on 4/22/2008 6:42:00 PM
Did you know some artists are still recording on vinyl? Heard one on NPR recently. Unfortunately, his name has already escaped me.
For me, part of the timeless magic of books is that they are human-readable: no exterior power source necessary!
I'm heading down to Comic-Con in San Diego Thursday morning and will be staying for the whole show. My co-workers at AWN and I will be blogging constantly from all different angles of the show. Look for news, interviews, party happenings, cool stuff and lots and lots of images posted every night from the happening Gaslamp section of San Diego.
Deron Yamada, our splendiferous Art Director and lovingly called the Great Volcano God Yamada has designed a rockin header for the blog and we like it very much. All hail the Great Yamada!
DUDE!!! How was it!! So jealous!