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SAN DIEGO COMIC CON GOODNESS
18 years ago
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*NOTE* I will not go into the hell my flight back was...just that they will get a very scathing letter...onto the con goodness.
How to describe San Diego Comic-Con...FUCKING HUGE...might describe it slightly. I have been attending furry cons and scifi cons for years. Big ones, lil ones, fun ones and crappy ones. This con just cannot be described, you gotta see it to believe it. Much like pictures cannot show the massive scale of the Grand Canyon, words just cannot do justice to the magnitude of this con.
OK, to anyone that thinks Anthrocon is "too big" or "I gotta walk all the way from the con hotel to the convention center" I do not wanna hear it anymore. The dealer room alone at SDCC is the length of 2 football fields. JUST the dealers room alone if overlaid onto the Pittsburgh convention center to the con hotel, would drape it on both sides. The amount of people is staggering. Anthrocon, the largest furry con in the world has a total of about 2,800 attendees....SDCC has over 125,000, being capped by fire marshals, otherwise there'd be even more there. Just more to give it some scale...you could fit 9 Anthrocon dealer rooms in the SDCC con hall. Let's say this...the Mach 5 for the new Speed Racer movie was there..I never saw it. I missed a huge white sports car!! THAT is big.
How was it for furries. Well, I was at the Clubstripes booth and first wanna thank EVERYONE who stopped by to just say hi, get a sketch, buy a CD or our new all color book "The Best of Clubstripes". It was a real blast. It was also fun to see "norms" approach the table, some seeing it was furry, giggling and turing away, or like the majority, at least taking a look inside our book and some even buying it. I'd say the feedback from congoers in general was really positive, which really made the time there so much fun.
Usually at furry cons I do not buy that much stuff, I stick to my table, nose down in sketchbooks. Since SDCC is 4 days long and most days open from 10-7 I was able to walk around and buy some cool stuff and score some con swag. You name an interest, it was here. Comics, toys, Japanese collectibles, fashions, movie studios, celebrities, video games, comic creators, actors, writers, all were here. Panels for tons of upcoming TV shows, movies, you name it, it was here. I din bother with em since lines were so long to get to them. I do regeret not attending the masquerade, but got to hang with some cool artists and learn some new techniques I definitely will be using. I even got to meet the man who voices Grr from Invader Zim! Heck I got to see Stan Lee get into a cab, we all cheered him, hehe. So much geekery was never so concentrated in one place.
The city itself was great too, definitely a tourist trap, but one I loved. Gorgeous weather, great places to eat and walk around on. First night there I ate at a place called Basic. They serve flat bread pizza that was soo good. They also had huge boards you could paint on, was a fun atmosphere to start off my con trip with! Had dessert at Giordelli's, they do great chocolate, uh, other places I ate at during the stay, this cool mongolian style place at the Horton Plaza mall, and Sushi Deli II..DAMN good food and lots of it, we were all stuffed
Clubstripes is getting a booth next year and I am definitely planning on attending. For me the con was worth it. It was huge beyond comprehension, crowded, hyped to death, but an experience I loved! AGAIN, I wanna thank all those who stopped by the booth and chatted, bought stuff, you all made it such a fun time there. Some I wish I had the time to hang out with more...you know who you are!
Personal cool moment..meeting Rikki Simmons, the voice of Grr!! I even drew Tristan Oakenrod, my HUGELY hung human barbarian for a friend of his in her sketchbook (I totally did not catch your name, was so hard to hear with the crowd!), was soo cool!
Oh, go buy the Best of Clubstripes book!! It will look great on your coffee table or shelf, you can get it here: https://www.clubstripes.com Heck, join the site if you can too, there is some great talent there. I am glad to know them. OK, plug over! ^_^
How to describe San Diego Comic-Con...FUCKING HUGE...might describe it slightly. I have been attending furry cons and scifi cons for years. Big ones, lil ones, fun ones and crappy ones. This con just cannot be described, you gotta see it to believe it. Much like pictures cannot show the massive scale of the Grand Canyon, words just cannot do justice to the magnitude of this con.
OK, to anyone that thinks Anthrocon is "too big" or "I gotta walk all the way from the con hotel to the convention center" I do not wanna hear it anymore. The dealer room alone at SDCC is the length of 2 football fields. JUST the dealers room alone if overlaid onto the Pittsburgh convention center to the con hotel, would drape it on both sides. The amount of people is staggering. Anthrocon, the largest furry con in the world has a total of about 2,800 attendees....SDCC has over 125,000, being capped by fire marshals, otherwise there'd be even more there. Just more to give it some scale...you could fit 9 Anthrocon dealer rooms in the SDCC con hall. Let's say this...the Mach 5 for the new Speed Racer movie was there..I never saw it. I missed a huge white sports car!! THAT is big.
How was it for furries. Well, I was at the Clubstripes booth and first wanna thank EVERYONE who stopped by to just say hi, get a sketch, buy a CD or our new all color book "The Best of Clubstripes". It was a real blast. It was also fun to see "norms" approach the table, some seeing it was furry, giggling and turing away, or like the majority, at least taking a look inside our book and some even buying it. I'd say the feedback from congoers in general was really positive, which really made the time there so much fun.
Usually at furry cons I do not buy that much stuff, I stick to my table, nose down in sketchbooks. Since SDCC is 4 days long and most days open from 10-7 I was able to walk around and buy some cool stuff and score some con swag. You name an interest, it was here. Comics, toys, Japanese collectibles, fashions, movie studios, celebrities, video games, comic creators, actors, writers, all were here. Panels for tons of upcoming TV shows, movies, you name it, it was here. I din bother with em since lines were so long to get to them. I do regeret not attending the masquerade, but got to hang with some cool artists and learn some new techniques I definitely will be using. I even got to meet the man who voices Grr from Invader Zim! Heck I got to see Stan Lee get into a cab, we all cheered him, hehe. So much geekery was never so concentrated in one place.
The city itself was great too, definitely a tourist trap, but one I loved. Gorgeous weather, great places to eat and walk around on. First night there I ate at a place called Basic. They serve flat bread pizza that was soo good. They also had huge boards you could paint on, was a fun atmosphere to start off my con trip with! Had dessert at Giordelli's, they do great chocolate, uh, other places I ate at during the stay, this cool mongolian style place at the Horton Plaza mall, and Sushi Deli II..DAMN good food and lots of it, we were all stuffed
Clubstripes is getting a booth next year and I am definitely planning on attending. For me the con was worth it. It was huge beyond comprehension, crowded, hyped to death, but an experience I loved! AGAIN, I wanna thank all those who stopped by the booth and chatted, bought stuff, you all made it such a fun time there. Some I wish I had the time to hang out with more...you know who you are!
Personal cool moment..meeting Rikki Simmons, the voice of Grr!! I even drew Tristan Oakenrod, my HUGELY hung human barbarian for a friend of his in her sketchbook (I totally did not catch your name, was so hard to hear with the crowd!), was soo cool!
Oh, go buy the Best of Clubstripes book!! It will look great on your coffee table or shelf, you can get it here: https://www.clubstripes.com Heck, join the site if you can too, there is some great talent there. I am glad to know them. OK, plug over! ^_^
Did you happen to see the MEGA 64 guys there?
..omg I just realized, that I never got a hug. lol x3
That's odd...the last time I went to California, we went through the San Diego airport and had a terrible return flight. I will never flight United Airlines again.
San Diego is a nice place and has many neat little suburbs.
Wow, that is a huge Con. Too bad cons aren't my thing. =/
Again, I'm glad you had a great time and welcome back!
Same thing with Zoos. Growing up in San Diego spoils you for Zoos! XD Other Zoos look like petting zoos...
Oh, and BTW, I was the reeeeeally indecisive guy.
My friends generally walk in my wake at Con since I generate my own path O.o
*Wants to meet Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb* xO
That's awsome! ^^
My friend, Pyris, says he'd do ANYTHING (And he MEANS anything) to meet Adam. xD
Note: Pyris is very very straight, and said he would even go as far as bending over for a guy. *Snickers*
Everyone be jealous.
Please don't tell me you took US Airways back home.
Anyway hope to see ya at the next FC, I've got a room booked. :)
Oh, and I'll have a scan of the piece you did for me up sometime... when I can get a scan of it. Right now my scanner is out of commision so all i've got are digital photos ^^; Thansk again megatons though. It came out absolutely gorgeous, I've got friends that're jealous now! ;)
Might buy a copy of the Clubstripes book if there are any left after I get situated at my new address.
Buy your CD for a drink? ;3
Nice meeting someone else off of Fur Affinity finally. other artists there were abble to tell me what my art needed, so i might open a booth there myself next year. I saw the old Batmobile, the Dalec robot on the first day too, (Old Dr. Who) got some really maybe these guys contacts and talked with comic book editors and writers and artists about a bunch of stuff i might be able to have more paitience and do better stuff now.
The panels were neat what i caught of them, and Spike and Mike had some truely disgusting and twisted animations. One of a horse and small female bird having sex, i think it was a blind insult at furry porn.
Out on the docks in back Gene Simmons of Kiss was escorted in i think to some guest appearance on the last day. i met some nice people and pissed off all the jerks, was a supervisor over some really cool volunteers and saved a guy that had a heart attack, i was directing traffic out front at the end, i was the white gray haired tall guy in the borrowed San Deigo police vest. that was fun too, Wonder Woman brought me some water and i got to see most of the masquerade types and this one guy that was a spitting image of Jack Sparrow - Johnny Depp. i had star wars storm troopers helping out as some of my volunteers for the Smallville movie. things were kind of a blurr at times but i got in some nice hours 12 hours most days with 14 on Saturday,
I heard from the Comic-con promoters that they might make it two weeks next year, and, the sold out all 144 thousand reservations on Satuday the first time they had ever done that.
I also heard there were about a million attendees, i met a fire marshal too, nice guy. Upstairs had more crowds for the panels and upcoming movies and tv shows than downstairs, you saw only the press on the dealers floor.
Oh yeah nice meeting you Gideon, don't tell anybody my real name or disposition it will ruin my image on FA as a jerk Republican! :D.
Did you get to attend any panels?
And yes, this con was HUGE, Anime Expo is nothing compared to this..the convention center being so large, it was still packed.
You guys were awesome, and nice too. :) Which was cool, Ill be there next year, this time, with enough money to commision all of you..love your art alot.
So many good stuff you had there, it was hard to choose just what to buy.The best of book was great, by the way. Hoping theres more of that next year!
This August I'm going to GenCon (36,000+) and Fan Expo (50,000+), and neither is as big as SDCC.
Glad you enjoyed it! I've not been in too long.
Phorsaken and I got to meet ya briefly at the ClubStripes table, the two raptors who wanted dollah badges :3 Real nice meeting ya!