Saturday, July 25, 2009

Webcomicsing at Comic Con!

After the Meet the Guild Panel yesterday, I did my rounds at Webcomics Alley. I met Jennie Breeden - Devil's Panties, Lar DeSouza - the artist for Least I Could Do and Looking for Group, and my favorite: Richard Stevens of Diesel Sweeties. He was every bit as funny and smart as his comic makes him seem (plus he's a cat person!). We chatted for a while about Ohio, Amtrak and traveling the country and he was kind enough to sign my book and draw me a picture.



The other artists I wanted to see (Jeph of Questionable Content, Randy of Something Positive and Aeire of Punch n' Pie) were not at the booths (like they have to eat or use the restrooms? *please*)

Kit and I sat in on the Syfy panel in the evening and saw the next episodes of Warehouse 13 and Eureka as well as some promos for Ghost Hunters and I don't remember what else. Eureka seems like a fun show, I may have to watch it. Maybe it's on Hulu?

This morning, I met Ryan Sohmer, the writer for LICD/LFG, who was also pretty awesome.



The panels have all been pretty packed and we've not had a lot of luck. We couldn't get into the Futurama Panel, but we lucked out on the Ray Bradbury panel, for which I am waiting right now (inside the room). Apparently the Green Lantern panel before it wasn't very popular, and there were a lot of seats open.

Now I'm going to eat my granola bars. I'm hungry, and I'm glad Kit advised me to bring snacks to the con.

1 comment:

Simon Owens said...

I got a chance recently to interview Richard Stevens for a PBS piece about how web artists are monetizing their content and whether newspaper cartoonists could emulate them: