So I'm back from Chicago and everything went great. We had a booth right next to the entrance with 3 big screens showing off games and such, a 3 robotic camera setup, and a full staff running around. What I didn't know before, was that we were there under the request of Wizard World. The company running the con asked us to be there and cover the event for them, and was even streaming us on their front page, awesome! They were very impressed and said they want us to come back and cover NY Comic Con for them now.

I interviewed tons of celebrities and got lots of footage/pics. I'm still not getting paid yet, but the entire trip was all expenses paid minus about 30 bucks I put in at one point for lunch. Had a hotel right across the street from the convention hall which was nice and easy.

You can see footage here:
http://ufragtv.com/show/chicago-comiccon
and here
http://ufragtv.com/show/comic-con-chicago-09
and shorter clips here
http://www.youtube.com/user/UFragTV#play/uploads

Photos here:
http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b.....ic%20Con%2009/

The footage is still being edited though and more photos are coming in, so all that stuff is going to be updated.

I got to interview so many great guys such as;
Camden Toy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870262/
Rowdy Roddy Piper: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684929/
Doug Jones: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427964/
Ed Gale: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0301839/
Jake Busey: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000998/
and more!

They were all so down to earth and nice it was amazing. I asked Doug Jones for a picture after our interview and he JUMPED into my arms! What an awesome guy! My boss thought that the Rowdy Roddy Piper was the best interview of the bunch though, but for me it was hard to chose. There were a few screw ups and stumbles though as you can see from the footage, for example I stumbled at the start of the Jake Busey interview because they just went, "Hey man we need you to interview this guy." and I was like, "What guy?" and they pointed at him. I said, "That's Jake Busey." "Yeah him, now sit down and you're on in 3.2.1." Clearly I went eep! and stumbled a bit right at the beginning because I got thrown into it, but then i was able to pick up the ball and save it all. At one point we were even invited to come to a celebrity cocktail party which was a lot of fun.

One bad thing that happened during all this was that there was a douche bag competing news team that was covering the event and then charging people for access to the footage. They didn't even have a booth and were not officially covering the event like we were. But that didn't stop them from going around and trying to besmirch us to the celebs so they'd interview with them instead of us. They actually went up to Ed Gale and said, "Don't interview with them, they aren't official, interview with us instead." Ed was smart though and said, "If they weren't official why do they have that huge booth over there and why are they on the front page of the con site?" They actually replied with, "No they aren't." Ed said, "What do you mean no they aren't? Yes they are, I checked them out myself, they are right on the front page of the website." To which they said, "Nu-uh" again, and Ed basically told them to screw off at that point. That was great, but they also did the same thing to the guy that played Chewbaka and he fell for it and gave THEM our timeslot! What pricks! But we got them good, we reported them to the convention and they will be dealt with, and then hilariously enough they got kicked out of the celebrity cocktail party for filming.

The most brain exploding and hilarious moment of the trip though was when I bumped into and subsequently interviewed a friend of mine from FA and didn't even realize it, neither did he until I saw him make a FA journal about being interviewed at the con and I went ":O THAT WAS ME INTERVIEWING YOU!"
It was Ritts:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/878285/
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/881483/
That is so fucking hilarious!

I bumped into a few other furs there that I didn't know, but was able to recognize as furs from either tails or fursuits, that was cool. But guys, read my damn FA or LJ and when I saw I'm going out of town let me know if you live in that town! I missed out meeting a handful of friends that were either in Chicago or at the con because they didn't tell me when I made a journal saying I was going to be there! I'll be traveling around the world over the next few months from PAX West/East, to New York, to Tokyo, etc, so when I make a journal saying I'm going somewhere let me know if you are anywhere near by so you can swing by and say hi while I'm working!

That was basically my trip, any questions?

P.S. Oh yeah and don't forget to check out www.LAGtv.com and www.uFragTV.com all you gamers out there!