Here’s the video of my live (well, mostly alive) appearance on the SDCC Unofficial Blog’s SDConCast podcast on You Tube on Tuesday, May 17th. I’ve embedded the link below for your viewing pleasure, and seriously, just who isn’t happy to see me pontificating on my favorite subject: Me. This installment talks about my time as... Continue Reading →
The nice folks at SDCC Unofficial Blog have invited me back for a second live appearance on their SDCC ConCast, this Tuesday evening at 6:30 PM on YouTube Live! Despite the fact that I insulted their limo driver, trashed their green room, and stole all their M&Ms with Peanuts last year, they still found it... Continue Reading →
Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! It’s been a good two months since I last graced this website with my reminiscences about “My Life in Comics” … or more specifically "My Life at Comic-Con." It’s been difficult for me to sit down and arrange my thoughts around... Continue Reading →
I’ll be making another appearance at the Comic-Con Museum this Saturday (April 15) at 1:00 PM alongside Eisner Awards administrator Jackie Estrada to talk with the great Rick Geary about his career and all the wonderful artwork he did for Comic-Con. I commissioned numerous covers with Rick when I was Comic-Con’s director of print &... Continue Reading →
I enjoyed myself at WonderCon 2023, which was held last weekend (March 24-26) at the Anaheim Convention Center. From the looks of things, a lot of other people did, too, but I couldn’t help feeling that something was missing. It took me a while to figure it out, but I finally realized it was the... Continue Reading →
Tales from My Spinner Rack LIVE! at WonderCon This Sunday, March 26, at 1:00 PM in Room 213CD Join me at WonderCon 2023 this Sunday for my first-ever solo panel devoted to my weekly blog feature, “Tales from My Spinner Rack!” I'm on my way to WonderCon 2023 at the Anaheim Convention Center, smack dab... Continue Reading →
Tales from My Spinner Rack LIVE! at WonderCon Sunday, March 26 at 1:00 PM in Room 213CD Join me at WonderCon 2023 for my first-ever solo panel devoted to my weekly blog feature, “Tales from My Spinner Rack!” Badges for WonderCon 2023 at the Anaheim Convention Center are still available, but hurry ... this con... Continue Reading →
Tales from My Spinner Rack LIVE! at WonderCon Sunday, March 26 at 1:00 PM in Room 213CD Join me at WonderCon 2023 for my first-ever solo panel devoted to my weekly blog feature, “Tales from My Spinner Rack!” Yep … I’m taking my blog and hitting the road, at least to Anaheim and WonderCon, my... Continue Reading →
Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! In the first chapter of “Everything Else,” (click here to read it), I mentioned 2015 was my favorite year. It was certainly my busiest. In addition to all the publication and website work I was doing, I also did a special... Continue Reading →
No, I won’t just be loitering outside in Balboa Park … I will actually be talking and running a PowerPoint presentation on Comic-Con’s Souvenir Book covers from 1970 through 2022. I’ll be joining moderator Jackie Estrada and artists Bill Morrison and William Stout (both are tied with Jim Lee for illustrating the most covers, with... Continue Reading →
Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! My father taught me two things in life: 1.) When it’s cold outside, make sure your head, hands and feet are kept as warm as possible, because you lose most of your body heat through your extremities. And 2.) Nobody is... Continue Reading →
I have a lot of fond memories of WonderCon, San Diego Comic-Con’s sister show, which I was involved with from 2002 through 2020. I think anyone that goes to this event realizes what a great alternative it is to Comic-Con, with a more laid-back and less crowded vibe to it. Having said that, it has... Continue Reading →
(Above: a badge from APE 2008 designed by me (far left); the APE Exhibit Hall at the Concourse Exhibition Center; and Paige Braddock's simian cartoonist for the APE 2008 Program Book cover, colored by me.) When I look back over my 20+ year career with San Diego Comic-Con, I can definitely see what meant the... Continue Reading →
Of all the things I did in my 21-year career at San Diego Comic-Con, the thing I am proudest of—and most enjoyed doing—were the event’s yearly Souvenir Books. While I enjoyed doing the Update magazines (which evolved into Comic-Con Magazine and finally, Comic-Con Annual ... more on that here), the three-times a year schedule was... Continue Reading →
Soon after I edited and designed my first major book for Comic-Con, the 2007 Souvenir Book (click here for details), I was contacted by Andrea Fernandes, the business development sales manager of Chronicle Books’ Custom Division. a San Francisco-based publisher that specialized in pop culture and well, just plain ol’ culture-in-general books. “We want to... Continue Reading →
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