San Diego Comicon 2008 | Dog Eaters

SDCCl Day 2, Thursday, after the Dabel Brothers panel

Posted on 08.18.08 under San Diego Comicon 2008

July 24, Wed. 5 – 7 PM

Coasting through the rest of Day 2, some random images…

Discussing the fate of the world with Azusa and Isaac.

She’s got a whip, she’s got a whip!

I carefully anoint this new member by pinning the BDC badge to his lanyard.

These two guys are said to look alike. Hmmm.

Atmospheric DC characters.

This couple didn’t need that much convincing to become Black Dog Clansmen. I hope that her bookshop in Santa Barbara will pick DE up.

Getting towards the end of the day…

Day 2, Thursday, Dabel Brothers panel in Room 7AB

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July 24, Wed. 4 PM

I was on the Dabel Brothers panel with authors Jim Butcher (Dresden Files), Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dark Hunter), and DB members Derek Ruiz and Neil Schwartz. We gave the premises of the projects we are working on with Dabel Brothers and then there was a Q and A after.

The Dresden Files is about a detective with magical powers. It was a TV show on the Sci-Fi Channel as well.

Dark Hunter is about a vampire who fights against evil.

Dog Eaters is… Well… “Mankind failed to transcend the Petroleum Age. 175 years after the DIE OFF, civilization is starting to coalesce around the casino-cities of the US Southwest. The Black Dog Clan is making it’s last trade to the Gulf where it will establish its own casino-city.

I discuss the nutritional merits of eating canines versus the sucking of human blood from the neck with Sherrilyn. I think we both decided that with either protein source, supplementing was a good idea, and that every meal should include fiber, especially raw vegetables.

Derek runs the show.

Jim talks about the upcoming Dresden chapter, Storm Front.

Sherrilyn talks about how doing comics is a dream come true.

I explained the premise of Dog Eaters and how this came to be a Dabel Brothers project.

Azusa was spellbound by my oratory! Notice the leg? Whose is that?

Lining up for autographs.

Not only does Stephanie hang in the Dabel booth, but she studies glassblowing with Rick Mills at the University of Hawaii! Rick and I were contemporaries at the glass lab at U.H. in the late 70s and we’re both still blowing. Here’s a few of my recent wine glasses.

Notice my signing process using the the double chop and gold Sharpie technique.

They’re still lining up…

Connor’s questions were so “on the money,” that Azusa and Miyuki thought that he was a “sakura.”

I give my attention to a very interesting theory…

But this is what I really meant by that dream sequence.

San Diego Comicon Day 2, Thursday @ SDCC

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July 24, Wed.

What a day! Not only was the sky cloudless and blue (the only day like this, San Diego has been having uncharacteristically bad summer weather), but you feel the energy level rising — the Star War cos-players are coming out!
First up was a Wookie giving an interview in the low-pitched roar of the Wookie language. This wasn’t surprising, after all, it was a Wookie. The weird thing was when one of the people walking by (in ordinary garb) and also added a few words of Wookie! This is a language you can learn at Berlitz?

Inside, in front of the Dabel booth, Miyuki ran into an Oyako (parent and child) pair of cos-playing Storm Troopers.

Then on my way back from visiting Dov Kelemer and Mary Jo Marks at the DKE booth (they wholesale figures and dealt both plush runts and Kumanogollo),

I was attacked by Storm Troopers.

And in the booth itself, I downloaded a couple of the color images Neil planned to use in the Powerpoint presentation for the panel meeting we were going to have a few hours earlier.

I was told by the Design Team at CWC that they wanted to Transformers goods, so I went to the Hasbro booth.

But I couldn’t get near it, there was a triple-thick line of people wrapped around it!

Toy prototypes at the Super7 booth. Super7 hosted one of the “Behind Blythe” exhibitions we had in North America a couple of years back. Micro-manufacturing done with love.

Klim and Brian.

Authors and Black Dog Clan members, Anne Elizabeth and Jim Butcher.

Super Girl and Wonder Woman are not to be trifled with!

Harry Dresden, the wizard detective. He loved the Preview Issue if you must know…

Azusa and Miyuki really did come to Comicon to work! Here they are enlisting a Clan member.

I’m signing using the double chop (inkan or hanko) and the gold Sharpie. Looks pretty cool…

Recruiting members one at a time. Hopefully, they’re members for life.

Michael Provost, a vice-president at Hasbro, one of our colleagues with Blythe, shows me a photo of Ugly Betty holding a Blythe bag.

With Isaac during a lull in the action.

On the ground @ San Diego Comicon

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July 23, Wed. 6 PM

Azusa tries to hail a cab while Miyuki contemplates the meaning of life We also waited at the bus stop and then stood at the shuttle stop before deciding it was faster to walk.

While we looked for the right line to stand in, we were “eyeballed” by a couple of aliens.

Still looking for that elusive line for Exhibitors…

Dave Campiti (left) from Glasshousegraphics who runs the agency that DOG EATERS colorists, Ruben Dela Vela and Michael Bartolo belong to, stands with Rich Young (center) and Neil Schwartz (right) from Dabel Brothers Publishing.

Self-portrait with Derek Ruiz of Dabel Brothers Publishing.

Isaac hands out preview issue of DOG EATERS to any and all while Derek tries to look busy.
Simone Bianchi reads DOG EATERS and says, “It’s great!”

Miyuki can’t tell if she’s excited or scared to be chased Iron Man.

NO! I’m Iron Man

Arriving on the Left Coast of the USA

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July 23, Wednesday 12:00 PM
Damn, missed the SF to San Diego flight and the ground attendant says we can go tomorrow (and miss Preview Night??!!), standby on the 4:30 PM flight or get confirmed for the 9:30 PM flight. No fu*#ing way!!

Expressing my disapproval in no uncertain terms, the ground attendant does 5 minutes of intense typing into her terminal and puts us on high priority standby for the 1:30 PM flight. I’m still so steamed I forget to say, “Thank you.” We walk to the gate, thinking we have plenty of time until we see the line for domestic security. Yikes. Another sign of the Apocalypse. At the gate, we see our names up on the standby list. There are 4 seats available. I am #2. Miyuki is #4, Isaac is #5. Uh, oh. They call name #1, a Japanese guy who must have been on our flight from Japan. Then they call my name. I go up, explain our situation. They say, “Well, you can split up or wait until — ” No fu*#n’ way! They let us all on the 1:30 PM flight. We are relieved, but once again, I forget to say, “Thank you.” Must watch my manners…

What do Isaac and Miyuki do to pass the time? Giggle over some manga Isaac bought at Tsutaya in Narita. Just warming up for Comicon…