Category: Events

Jill Thompson Comic-Con Schedule and Info

from Jill Thompson:

If you’re looking for me at the big Comic-Con this week in San Diego– or– if you have generously volunteered some of your time to Booth sit for me while I’m on a panel or doing a signing at a Publishers booth… Here is my current run down. Or, if you have access to one of those palanquins and some strong fellows and want to whisk me thru the con like a fancy princess…

You can find me at my booth #1322. I’ll be sitting with Cliff Chiang, Brian Wood, Becky Cloonan, Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba! Yes, we have a super awesome table and I’m proud to be sharing with such a talented bunch of creators.
Here’s my current schedule–

WEDNESDAY — Preview Nite Booth #1322 sketching, signing, chatting etc.

THURSDAY Booth #1322 til 11:30. Then I rush off to
CBLDF MASTER SESSION room 30CDE where I shall paint and explain how I use watercolor to create my comics. Also painting, the amazing Charles Vess. Two watercolorists, two approaches, two different styles, but– same format — Comics!

FRIDAY 10 am booth #1322, but– I have a meeting there, so I won’t be signing and sketching straight away. Thanks for waiting.
12 noon-1 Dark Horse Booth #2615 signing and talking about Beasts of Burden.
Come see a preview of the art for the series!
&
EISNER AWARD CEREMONY I’ll be there for most of it, as I am nominated for an award (I hope I hope I hope I win!)
But– I’ll be dashing across town to the AMANDA PALMER/CBLDF benefit where I shall be drawing quick sketches of Amanda as she performs. It will feel all kind of Toulouse-Lautrec-ish, I think. The “drawing a beautiful performer and wild, bohemian, entertainmenty” part. Not the “artist drinks heavily to deal with the crowd’s ridicule and falls into alcoholism and has to be committed to a sanitorium” part… Also all the art goes to the cause. I’ll take pix and tweet the art for all to see.
Hopefully I won’t be too late, and I also hope I’ll have an award under my arm and a bottle of champagne in my hand to celebrate a win. I’ll be the one in the gold silky gown (at least that’s my plan) rushing in the door during the middle of things.

SATURDAY all day at booth #1322 until
DC Booth signing from 4-5 pm
dinner with the Fables Crew
SATURDAY NITE much laughing, shop talking, revelry. Please come join me if you see me! Who knows what we’ll all be up to.

SUNDAY also DC Booth Signing from 10:30-11:30 am

When I’m at other booths, I won’t be able to take commissioned drawing because I’m only there an hour. All I can accommodate are signatures. So please save all sketch requests for booth 1322.

What will I have available for sale at booth #1322?
Embroidered Patches– Bug-A-Boo, the Boozle, Scary Godmother are $10 each, Scratches and the bats are $5 each. $45.00 US for the whole set.
Magic Trixie Books — cover price
Sandman Painted art — prices vary
black and white line art sketches $100.00, with tone $200.00
Signatures are free. But, please, take all comics and books and prints and whatnot out of their protective packaging before you get up to the head of the line. Then I can sign them quickly and efficiently for you and no tape gets stuck to your comic.

Each day I will take a new list for sketches so new con attendees will have a chance to get on the list. Check with me in the morning to get on the list, and later in the afternoon to see if a spot opened up. Or if someone never came back for their sketch. You’d be surprised how many times I go home with an unclaimed drawing of Death or something.

If I am drawing and my head is down PLEASE do not think I am ignoring you! I’m just drawing! It’s the only way I know how to do it– with the looking at the paper and all that… Just start to talk to me– introduce yourself. My witchy face has a tendency to look all serious and stern when I’m looking down and concentrating on my paper. That’s just what my perspective does to us oval faces. I am quite approachable. But you have to approach me! Ok? Cool!

Rules and Regs– just for the sake of everyone’s books and sketches, PLEASE do not lean on or bump into the table! And, if there is art on the table for viewing– please do not put your books or boxes on them, or your iced coffees.

If I am away from my table, my wonderful Booth Elves will be fielding questions, taking commission requests and selling books. Please feel free to interact with them.

You can follow me on Twitter as I’ll be digitally thinking for all to see (perhaps not IN THE EXHIBIT HALL where there is no WI FI-? WTF? that’s where we want to tweet from! let’s see if AT&T’s 3G works in that convention center — don’t let me down again AT&T…) Love the li’l Jesus phone so far…

Yeesh– not sure if I’ve forgotten anything, but I suppose we’ll find out in three days! THREE DAYS!!! It should be crazy, too crowded but quite a blast!

Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls at Comic-Con

from Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls:

The first of our announcements as we COUNTDOWN TO COSMIC-CON is that we will be selling, for the very first time, tees in kids’ sizes! 3 BRAND NEW DESIGNS at that! Quantities for the other womens’ tees are dwindling, so if you’ve ever had your eye on a shiny “Sitting Pretty” Venus shirt, or the “YAY MARS” design, this may be one of your last chances to get one.

Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls will be at booth #4834. I will be there most of the time to sign books for anyone who’d like to purchase. If you would care for an original autographed drawing of you favorite gGirl, I’ll be doing that on Saturday (time yet to be determined) along with my husband, Craig McCracken, who’ll be doing sketches of his creations, The Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.

Check back tomorrow. As we continue the countdown, we’ll be revealing the shirt designs!!

Over and out,

Mother Earth (Lauren Faust)

The Guild’s Comic-Con Schedule

from The Guild:

If you are at Comic-Con in San Diego next week and would like to meet the cast of The Guild and get info on Season 3, there’s kinda no way you can avoid us! We’ll be everywhere! As a handy guide we’ve made this blog post so you can find us somewhere each day!

Xbox Live and Microsoft, our sponsor, has arranged for our panel to take place on:

Friday at 10:30am-11:30am in room 5AB.

We’ll be screening TWO videos, so you won’t want to miss it, I promise, we will be showing something that people are going to get excited over!

We’ll be signing a special promotional poster afterward in the Xbox booth from 12pm-1pm, and after that we’ll be doing Game with Fame from 2-3pm, so come play with us! What a treat to promote the show and play video games, ha! 🙂

We have our OWN booth this year (#4417) shared with Jamie Chambers, who is premiering the new Supernatural RPG game! We will be selling Season 1 and Season 2 DVDs, t-shirts from Jinx.com (including brand new designs!) and a variety of cast photos that you can get signed! There is at least one signing scheduled with the cast for each day, check the times below.

For signing times with the cast in The Guild booth, we are asking that you please purchase one item from the booth, even if you are bringing something to be signed. We are still an indie production and have a lot of expenses related to renting the booth and cast travel, etc. We greatly appreciate your supporting our independent show and enabling us to attend conventions like this! As always, you can get your Comic-Con Souvenir program signed for free per Comic-Con regulations.

THE GUILD COMIC-CON SCHEDULE:

WEDNESDAY, July 22
* 6pm – 8pm — Cast signing in Booth

THURSDAY, July 23 (SANDEEP’S BIRTHDAY)
* 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth
* 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Free Autograph Area (may get your souvenir booklet signed for free) — Table AA8

FRIDAY, July 24
* 10:30-11:30am — Panel (room 5AB)
* 12:00-1:00pm — Cast signing in Xbox Booth.
* 2:00-3:00pm — Game with Fame in Xbox Booth!
* 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm — Cast signing in Guild Booth

SATURDAY, July 25
* 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth
* 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth

SUNDAY, July 26
* 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. — Cast signing in Guild Booth

The Guild Season 2 on YouTube

from The Guild:

Hi!

We just wanted to let everyone know that we’ve started rolling out Season 2 of The Guild on YouTube today, starting with Episode 1!

The one thing we’ve missed from our awesome Xbox/Microsoft distribution is comments, so we’d love to hear what you think of the season! Also, if you could Rate and Favorite the video it will help new people discover the show. We appreciate those extra clicks!

Thank you so much for supporting our independent web series. 🙂 We’re excited to be launching a new season just around the corner, more information will be released next week. Also we will be posting our full Comicon Schedule later today or tomorrow, so be sure to check back so you can fit us in your busy schedule!

The Guild Management

Two Legend of Neil Contests!

from The Legend of Neil:

That’s right folks, there are TWO Neil contests you can participate in!

The first: Go join the Legend of Neil Facebook page if you haven’t already (why haven’t you?) and then get all of your friends to do it, because once we get 4,000 fans we’ll post a set of trivia questions, and the first three people to answer all of the questions correctly will win a free t-shirt! Fo’ realz! Of course, if you can’t wait, feel free to get your own at the Store.

The second: Comic-Con is right around the corner, and for you LoN fans who will be attending, this contest is for you! Wear your Legend of Neil shirt to Comic-Con and track down either Sandeep or Tony (GPS device optional), and the first 250 fans to do so will receive a Comic-Con exclusive limited edition prize! In addition to that awesomeness, each prize will be numbered and we will hold a lottery (location TBD) where you can win a genuine prop from the show!

Go! Go! Go! Win! Win! Win!

A Decade of ThinkGeek

from ThinkGeek:

Hey Folks!

Depending on how deeply you like to dig into Wikipedia, you may or may not know that July is a month of geeky celebrations and events. We have cool shows like OSCON and Comic-Con and holidays such as SysAdmin Day and Pi Approximation Day, but we also get to celebrate some important birthdays of those that helped shape the geeks we are today. Three of those birthdays were celebrated just a few days ago — Erno Rubik, Patrick Stewart and Harrison Ford all share July 13 as their birthday. Now that’s a momentous day! And speaking of momentous birthdays, our very own 10 year birthday is approaching very soon! Be on the lookout for specials, contests, and general geeky shenanigans coming up in August while we celebrate 10 years of geeking out with you.

News from ElfQuest

from ElfQuest:

Nearly a year after it happened, I’m finally able to post the full video of the Elfquest panel that ran at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International Expo. Right now, the entire 49-minute video is on Veoh.com; you may need to download a viewer to stream it to your computer, or you can download the full file and view it at your leisure. It’s not on YouTube yet as they don’t allow anything longer than 10 minutes; I’m working on that. However you view it, though, it’s a lot of fun and gives you the entire show, including the Elfquest slide presentation leading up to the question-and-answer segment.

Richard Pini

The Cabonauts: Second Interview with Nichelle Nichols

from The Cabonauts:

Hey Cabonautees,

Check out the brand new interview with Nichelle Nichols on Dailymotion — Nichelle Nichols Interview #2.

And are you going to Comic-Con? Nichelle will be there signing Cabonauts autographs and on the Saturday night at the Masquerade Ball, we’ll premiere The Cabonauts trailer to about 6,000 people! The trailer will reveal which sci-fi spectacular guest stars we have in the pilot too. 🙂 If you’re not there, don’t worry; we’ll put the trailer online the very next day!

Oh, and, shamless plug (the first of MANY), if you’d like a Cabonauts t-shirt, head over to: http://thecabonauts.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/

All Hail!

Cast and Series Creators of Safety Geeks: SVI Make Appearance at San Diego Comic-Con 2009

from Free Press Release:

Web series creators and stars of the unique new show, Safety Geeks: SVI appear at this years San Diego Comic-Con, produced by Pith-e Productions and sponsored by KoldCast TV. All professional actors from traditional media, this marks the cast’s first appearance at the convention where the comic style and subject of the show seems ideally suited for the Comic-Con audience. Safety Geeks: SVI was recently cited in a New York Times article on the coming of longer web series and has been quickly building a following among comedy and science fiction fans, self-professed geeks, and lovers of Monty Python and Adult Swim. This live action series plays like a living comic book using special effects to create a “funny” Sin City-type world. The cast, writers and producers are there this year to meet fans and make new fans at the autograph table and on the floor of the Comic-Con Convention, here is their schedule:

Safety Geeks: SVI Comic-Con Autograph Table Schedule:

Thursday, July 23rd — Table AA14 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Friday, July 24th — Table AA11 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Sunday, July 26th — Table AA11 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Some sample DVDs of the first five episodes and cast autographed pictures are available at their autograph table and on the Comic-Con free table. Convention attendees can even order a T-shirt at the booth and enter a drawing for a gift card, if you sign up free for the fan list and watch Safety Geeks: SVI online. Watch the series now online at KoldCast and then come to the convention to get a chance to meet the sexy stars of the series, and even Brittney Powell.

Also, David Beeler and Tom Konkle have a film, Star Wars: The Fate Of The Duel as a finalist in the 2009 Star Wars Movie Challenge Awards on Friday, July 24 from 8:30 – 10:30 PM in Ballroom 20.

Safety Geeks: SVI is a live-action, innovative 12 episode program that combines the familiar form and structure of investigative shows with the fresh anarchic free form of Adult Swim while drawing on the dryness of British humor, yet with a more “in your face” American feel and lots of visual gags created with the post production artistry of Konkle, Thor Melsted and Mike Smith.

According to show creators Tom Konkle and David Beeler, the show plans to use innovative technologies and ideas to create 100 percent of the surreal sets and vehicles. The production team includes Roger Tonry, Michael Sherwood and casting director Liz Paulson.

It stars David Beeler as Reginald Syngen-Smythe, Tom Konkle as Budwin Yaker and Brittney Powell as Dr. Randi Minky, Benton Jennings as Hopkins, Mary Cseh as Sparky Van Der Graff, with Jim Woods, Mark Teich, Steve Tom, Ransford Dougherty, Chanel Ryan, Laura Hayes, Frank Payne, Adria Tennor, Ben Wang and many others.

The Dave and Tom-created Safety Geeks: SVI and Invention with Brian Forbes comedy series are posted on Koldcast.TV, and merchandise and music will be for sale through KoldCast’s ShowShops with distribution also on TivoCast, Zune and iTunes as part of Koldcast’s overall deal with those companies.

For more information:
Tom Konkle
daveandtom.com
www.koldcast.tv

Visit our website: http://daveandtom.com/safetygeeks.html

Comic-Con’s Star Wars Day at a Glance

from StarWars.com:

The annual tradition of Comic-Con International — the must-see annual gathering for comic, movies, television and pop culture fans in San Diego, California — continues again this year, and Star Wars is well represented as always. The event runs from July 22-26 (including Preview Night) at the San Diego Convention Center. Each day is packed with activities, panels, and of course the non-stop buzz of the enormous show hall.

Here is just a glance at the Star Wars events on Friday, July 24th to keep an eye on. Schedules are always subject to last minute changes, so you should double-check the event schedule printed at the show each day.

10 – 11 AM: Hasbro Star Wars (Room 7AB) — Come hear what the Hasbro Design and Marketing teams have in store for the remainder of 2009, and catch a special sneak peek into some 2010 secrets.

11 AM – 12 NOON: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Building the Universe (Room 7AB) — Get a rare glimpse into the epic scale of the ongoing galactic conflict with key production staff from the series.

12 – 1 PM: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Behind the Mic! (Room 7AB) — Join supervising director Dave Filoni as he talks with the actors behind your favorite Clone Wars characters!

1 – 2 PM: Behind the Scenes: The Making of Star Wars: The Old Republic (Room 7AB) — LucasArts and BioWare discuss the making of the new massively-multiplayer online role-playing PC game.

2 – 3 PM: Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi (Room 7AB) — Join Star Wars authors and editors as they discuss the new novel series.

3 – 4 PM: Star Wars: Collectibles Update (Room 7AB) — Featuring eFX, Gentle Giant Studios, Kotobukiya, Museum Replicas, and Sideshow Collectibles.

5:15 – 6:15 PM: The Star Wars Spectacular (Hall H) — Get all the latest news from the Star Wars universe in an all-new show format! Join our special guest hosts — G4’s Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira — as they grill a galaxy of guests from The Clone Wars and beyond, including supervising director Dave Filoni, voice talent from the show and more! It’s an all-new, interactive Star Wars Spectacular!

8:30 — 10:30 PM: Star Wars Fan Movie Awards (Ballroom 20) — Don’t miss the most entertaining Star Wars fan-made movies out there!

For an expanded list of Star Wars activities at Comic-Con, including the other days of the convention, bookmark this article here at StarWars.com.

Zelda Prop Contest

from Zelda Universe:

For those of you attending Comicon, the Zelda prizes aren’t over yet. Zelda based mini-series The Legend of Neil has decided to celebrate the beginning of their second season by holding a contest — those who wear a LoN t-shirt and visit their booth will win a prize and are also eligible to win one of the Zelda props from their show, such as a giant dungeon key or a shield.

For those unfamiliar with The Legend of Neil, it’s a web series about a guy named Neil who was transported into a Zelda game, which has been featured on Comedy Central. Be warned, it’s NSFW and if you are averse to the adult language level of, say, South Park, you might want to give it a miss, but for everyone else, you can watch it here or read their news via their Facebook page.