CAF panel discussion

Comics Art Forum setup...

Jason does not have the itis

Dinner after SPX 09 night one...

Comic for Jeremy.

Flight home.

Had to leave San Diego at 10pm.

Now I've been stuck in Washington DC since 5:30am (that's 2:30am to my system right now).

Either way it's too early...

Leaving the Con...

We're out of here--let's go eat.

Sunday

Man--this place is STILL busy.

More Saturday Night

After we left the Devil's Due party it was back to the Hyatt. Saw Justin and Hunter, Rashad, Bob Shreck and lots others.

Saturday Night

John, Mark (who went to the Tron 2 expo), Anthony, and I went to the Devil's Due party. Ran into Rebecca and Jon (it's been a delight hanging with them), Dave V., Ben Frisch, Becky and the crew.

Mmmmm....

Nap time.

Plans...

John making plans for the evening. It was a busy day for sure... Got lots done. Tired now.

Saturday

Got up early this morning. Had breakfast against my better judgement.

We're walking the floor taking care of business. Got Kristie a good birthday gift (I think).

Friday Recap...

Yesterday (friday) wasn't very eventful. John Lowe came in around 1pm. We got Ray off to his flight on time. Tried to get some other folk for Comics Art Forum. I had to move my stuff to a new hotel--so that was fun.

After the show John and I took a nap at the hotel. We went back out to the Hyatt--the place to be--just long enough for John to ditch me for a party that I would have thought I would have been invited to.

I officially hate this.

Today I'm not even sure what sort of programming I'll go to. I'm sure there's something that I'll want to go to. Saturday's are always so crowded though.

Stan Sakai

Planning for the Tokyo trip with Stan Sakai and his delightful wife Sharron.

Lowe Arrives

"John Lowe Descending an Escalator"

College Comics

Here's a panel on whether or not a college education is good for a comics career. Of course we should be on this panel--as usual we dropped the ball.

Green Lantern: First Flight

Bad charcter design. Huge shoulders, tiny heads, and a complete ignorance of the principles of animation.

Horrible storytelling. Horrible story.

A curious amount of foul language throughout for a cartoon that appeals to kids. Very violent as well. Gross violent.

I find no merit in this stuff.

If this is in anyway faithful to the character, story, and/or tone of the comic then this is some of the worst, most stupid crap I've ever seen. I'm embarassed to have seen it.

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Nancy got us in.

Bruce Timm led thw crowd in the Green Lantern oath--which Ray (and the rest of the 4000 people in the crowd) knew.

Now if only I gave a crap about Green Lantern...

Show's Over for Thursday

Now we wait to see if Nancy can get Mark and I into the Green Lantern (zzzzzz) with her and Ray.

If not, what will I do?

jason and kazu

Got to see Kazu, Amy, and Jason at the Flight booth.

Rob

The Pitching Hour

This panel sucks so far...

Bill Peet

For Donnie.

More from the Disney panel

Disney Master Class

glen keane, eric goldberg, tom sito, ruben procopia

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It was worth it to wait for Cohn's presentation.

Ray gave up before the end of the first guy. And I can't really blame him.

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Argh. I though that Cohn would be next and I could alway ditch the last speakee if he wasn't good--but they're saving Cohn for last.

I fear theory and discussion of the mechanics of comics relies too much on McCloudian ideas... Maybe not.

This guy is overcompensating for the dullness of the previous speaker by speaking awkwardly emphatic--a sort of strange evangelical/professoral tone.

A bit boring...

This fellow (forget his name) is giving a presentation that is just reading his thesis (I suppose) on the film adaptation of 300.

I'm sitting in on this panel because I want to see Neil Cohn (who is next, and is a much better speaker).

But now I've got tos et through this poor example of public speaking.

Next year I'm gonna make Fish come out here and present his thesis...

SCAD needs to be much more involved with this conference, but we didn't get any proposals in on time...

Rashad's first on-site interview

Just after I gave Rashad the little recorder, he spotted Joe Quesada and Mark Millar and got a quick little quote. It was actually Ray that spotted them.

The view in the morning.