CA -- San Diego -- Comic-Con International 2009 -- Panels (day 2 of 4) Part 1 -- Notes:
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Description of Pictures: Panels:
(1) Mattel and DC Comics: A Heroic Partnership
(2) Comic--Con in the '80s
(3) Spotlight on Patrick Oliphant
(1) Mattel and DC Comics: A Heroic Partnership -- You've been a fan of Mattel's popular DC toy lines, now find out the latest news, sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes scoop on your favorite Mattel/DC action figures, including DC Universe Classics, Justice League Unlimited, Infinite Heroes, and exciting new lines like Batman: The Brave and the Bold, as well as the world premiere of new action figure lines announced here first! Join Mattel Toy designer Bill Benecke, Mattel marketing brand manager Scott Neitlich (AKA "Toy Guru"), The Four Horsemen, and representatives from DC Comics and Warner Brothers for an insightful Q&A.
Left to right: ???, Bill Benecke
(2) Comic-Con in the '80s -- Comic-Con moved to the Convention and Performing Arts Center in the 1980s and added a trade show. What was it like to be there during these growth years? Panelists include Lance Geeck, Mike Pasqua, David Scroggy, Barry Short, Mark Stadler, Jim Valentino, and Phil Yeh, with Janet Tait as moderator.
Left to right: Barry Short, Lance Geeck, Mike Pasqua, Janet Tait, David Scroggy, Jim Valentino, Phil Yeh, Mark Stadler.
(3) Spotlight on Patrick Oliphant -- Comic--Con special guest Patrick Oliphant -- one of the world's leading political cartoonists -- is interviewed by well-known cartoon authority and author Harry Katz, in a freewheeling one-on-one discussion of the political cartoonist's work, interspersed with live drawing demonstrations (including unpublished cartoons) and the interviewer's exhibition of slides.
Also photographed here is Richard Thompson
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Wikipedia Description: Comic-Con International
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Comic-Con International, commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, is an annual multigenre fan convention founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention and later the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 1970 by Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans. It is traditionally a four-day event (Thursday through Sunday--though a four hour preview night on Wednesday is open to guests pre-registered for all four days) held during the summer in San Diego, California, at the San Diego Convention Center. Comic-Con International is both the name of the annual event, and the common name of the organization.
Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon and the Alternative Press Expo (APE), both held in San Francisco, California.
Originally showcasing comic books, and related popular arts, the convention has expanded over the years to include a larger range of pop culture elements, such as science fiction, fantasy, horror, anime, manga, animation, toys, collectible card games, video games, television, and movies. The convention is the largest of its kind in the world, filling to capacity the San Diego Convention Center with over 125,000 attendees in 2007.
Since 1974, Comic-Con International has bestowed its annual Inkpot Award to guests and persons of interest in the industries of popular arts as well as to members of Comic-Con's Board of Directors and convention committee. It is also the home of the comic-book industry's Will Eisner Awards.
Events:
Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, portfolio review sessions with top comic book and video game companies, and such evening events as awards ceremonies and The Masquerade; a costume contest, and the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival which showcases shorts and feature length movies that do not have distribution or dist ...More...
Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
COMIP1_090724_004.JPG: Left to right: ???, Bill Benecke
COMIP1_090724_008.JPG: Left to right: Valerie Earl, Phillip Yeh, and Brianna Earl
COMIP1_090724_013.JPG: Barry Short and Lance Geeck.
COMIP1_090724_016.JPG: Mike Pasqua, Janet Tait, and David Scroggy.
COMIP1_090724_019.JPG: Left to right: Barry Short, Lance Geeck, Mike Pasqua, Janet Tait, David Scroggy, Jim Valentino, Phil Yeh, Mark Stadler.
COMIP1_090724_035.JPG: Mark Stadler
COMIP1_090724_049.JPG: Mike Pasqua
COMIP1_090724_053.JPG: Phillip Yeh
COMIP1_090724_064.JPG: Jim Valentino
COMIP1_090724_145.JPG: Comic-Con officials periodically handed out Ink Pot awards.
COMIP1_090724_155.JPG: Barry Short gets an Ink Pot.
COMIP1_090724_159.JPG: Phil Yeh gets his Ink Pot.
COMIP1_090724_405.JPG: Pat Oliphant
COMIP1_090724_408.JPG: Pat Oliphant and Harry Katz
COMIP1_090724_430.JPG: Pat gets his Ink Pot.
COMIP1_090724_589.JPG: We kind of worried about this one...
COMIP1_090724_603.JPG: ... and we were right!
COMIP1_090724_645.JPG: This guy was in the audience. I enjoyed watching him doing his own sketches.
COMIP1_090724_647.JPG: Spiro Agnew.
COMIP1_090724_684.JPG: He wasn't a fond supporter of Palin! The bear is waiting in the back with his credit card...
COMIP1_090724_727.JPG: Left to right: Lee Salem (of Universal Press), Jenny Robb (of the Ohio State U Cartoon library & museum http://cartoons.osu.edu/ ) , and Richard Thompson.
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2009 photos: Equipment this year: I was using mostly the Fuji S100fs. I've also got a Nikon D90 and a newer Fuji -- the S200EHX -- both of which are nice but I still prefer the flexibility of the Fuji.
Trips this year: (1) quick jaunt to Niagara Falls, (2) quick jaunt to New York City, (3) the Civil War Preservation Trust annual conference in Gettysburg, (4) out west for the San Diego Comic-Con and various places, and (5) the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Springfield IL .
Ego strokes: I had a picture of a Lincoln-Obama cupcake sculpture published in Civil War Times and WUSA-9, the local CBS affiliate, ran a quick piece on me. A picture that I took at the annual Abraham Lincoln Symposium appeared in the National Archives' "Prologue" magazine.
Photos taken this year: 417,000 (over 1.5 million since I went digital back in 2002).
User page views this year: 22,700 (almost identical to last year -- definitely not an ego stroke!).