San Diego Comic Con 2008 - Show report.....

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:12 pm

I'm home now & sorting thru the haul....I'll get some pictures & more report up later on or tomorrow....

Today was INSANE on the show floor! It was the most crowded I've ever seen it today. I think everyone was up in panels on Fri/Sat (there were HUGE lines for most panels I attended) and everyone seems to have decided to all hit the dealer's room today, since the panels sucked.

I could barely get at any of the dealer booths, commerce was in full flower today!

I'm glad I made most of my purchases early (on Previews night & on Thursday). There were a few "blow out sales" today, but given the volume of people shopping, there were not as many as I have seen in the past.

More later....

Wood · Post by **Wood** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:53 am

JLAFan wrote:I'm home now & sorting thru the haul....I'll get some pictures & more report up later on or tomorrow....

Today was INSANE on the show floor! It was the most crowded I've ever seen it today. I think everyone was up in panels on Fri/Sat (there were HUGE lines for most panels I attended) and everyone seems to have decided to all hit the dealer's room today, since the panels sucked.

I could barely get at any of the dealer booths, commerce was in full flower today!

I'm glad I made most of my purchases early (on Previews night & on Thursday). There were a few "blow out sales" today, but given the volume of people shopping, there were not as many as I have seen in the past.

More later....

Looking forward to hearing about your experiences Bob.

I must say I had expected two episodes of CBP and instead got two episodes of Krytographik. That would be great if I didn't already listen to those episodes in their original feed.

Get back to work!

zack kruse · Post by **zack kruse** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:35 pm

Sounds like you guys had had a good time. Looking forward to hearing you and John talk about it on the show!

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:34 pm

Some of the stuff I got from "creator encounters":

Autographs:
Dave Dwonch - gnome TP
Dave Wachter – Guns of Shadow Valley – con preview w/sketch!
Ethan Van Sciver – Green Lantern: Rebirth HC
Frank Beddor – Seeing Redd HC (Vol. 2 of Looking Glass Wars)
Jill Thompson – Magic Trixie Vol. 1
Jim Steranko – B&W Sketch cover variants of “Hercules: The Thracian Wars” #1 & 2
Josh Finney & Kat Rocha - Titanium Rain #1
Kevin McShane – ToupyDoops The Early Years TP (w/sketch)
Phil Foglio – Girl Genius HC – Vol. 6
Renae deLiz - Rogue Angel #1-5
Robert Kirkman & Ryan Ottley – Invincible Ultimate Collection HC – Vol. 1,2,3
Stan Sakai – Usagi Yojimbo TP – Vol. 22 (w/sketch)
Steve Bryant – Athena Voltaire Collected Webcomics

Sketchbooks (all autographed)
Adam Hughes – “The Details are a Tad Sketchy” & “Hissy Fit”
Bruce Timm – “The Shame Spiral”
Eric Powell – “From the Sick & Twisted Mind of…”
Frank Cho – “Jungle Girls Vol. 1” & “Mars Maidens Vol. 1” (w/sketch) (both are HC)
Jason Martin – “Pulp Girls” (Spartan cover)
Katie Cook – “A Nice Girl’s Naughty Drawings”
Stan Sakai – Usagi Yojimbo sketchbook #5
Steve Bryant – Sketches & Drawings Vol. 2
Steve Rude – 2008 Sketchbook (w/Moth head sketch)

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:35 pm

Here are the sketches I got at the show:

A trio from Dave Wachter. A Red Sonja I commissioned him to do, an Iron Man he had on his table that looked so cool I had to buy it, and a sketch he whipped out on the comic I bought from him:

These are sketch cards I got from the Bushi Tales guys!
Lin Workman:

Dave Beaty:

And a Jetta I got from Antone Wade (who does "Jetta", of course):

I have one more thing, a really cool Conan/Red Sonja sketch by Ernie Chan that I have not scanned in yet, I'll put it up tomorrow....

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:56 pm

Here are some shots from the "Big Bang Theory" Panel. I love this show, one of the funniest things on the air....

And here are a couple of shots from the Radical Comics panel:

The dapper man in the white jacket is the GREAT Jim Steranko!

And here we have Barry Levine (Radical founder), Steve Niles (30 Days of Night, and writing a new series, "City of Dust" for Radical, and Edmund Shern, writer of "Freedom Formula"

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:15 pm

Shots from around the show floor:

My son Stephen & Jabba

Stephen - the Ladie's Man

Kumar & Harold in their Guantanamo jail cell

Batman & Wonder Woman (booth employees)

1960's Bat Cycle

jkarguth · Post by **jkarguth** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:01 pm

I also enjoy the Big Bang Theory. A lot of people find it pandering, but I have to wonder if they gave it more than one episode. I have laughed at every episode, and some of them are quite inspired. I even go back and forth on whether or not I would purchase a DVD if that time came.

I enjoyed seeing all your pics, Bob. Beautiful sketches, and I think this year convinced my wife more than ever that we both need to make our way to SDCC soon.

comicm · Post by **comicm** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:34 pm

Awesome pics Bob. Are there more coming?

zack kruse · Post by **zack kruse** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:38 pm

wow. those sketches from dave wachter are REALLY nice.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:50 pm

Walking the Con floor on Sunday (desperately trying to cover aisles I had totally missed in the previous 4 days) I came upon Ernie Chan.

Ernie was one of my absolute favorite artists on Savage Sword of Conan when I was growing up, and I stopped to chat with him and let him know how much I had enjoyed his art over the years. He had 5 or 6 Itoya portfolios FULL of art. Wonderful to behold, he's something like 68 and he's still "got it".

I ended up buying the piece below. Conan AND Red Sonja, and colored too!

You can see (or buy!) lots of Ernie's art at his web-site. Thanks to Tim Rakrich for pointing this site out to me!
http://www.erniechan.com/

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:57 pm

Some more pictures!

Me & a really happy Steve Bryant (Athena Voltaire & Ursula Wilde)!

Me & Julian Lytle (Chris Murrin is in the background, on the right)

Lin Workman & Dave Beaty in front of their super-cool Bushi Tales display!

Me & Antone Wade (Jetta). The happiness I evoke in Steve Bryant comes out in Antone as a really weird expression......

John & Antone (sure, JOHN gets a smile out of him....) Antone has his sample packet that he's going to give to Marc Silvestri!

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:08 pm

Here are all the Sketchbooks I got...

I LOVE sketch books and like to support the artists, but this can get EXPENSIVE!

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:09 pm

Here are all the toys & mini-busts that I picked up in San Diego. Some are show exclusives, some are just things that I got at some pretty good prices:

neenjah · Post by **neenjah** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:27 pm

Some of the shots I took at SDCC.

Freddie Williams in artists alley.

Ruben Martinez and the scketchbook I got from him.

Outside in the hall before the podcasting panel.

Bob getting to his seat at the panel.

Podcasting panel.

John and Bob on the podcasting panel.

John getting directions.

Dave sketching at the BT booth.

Outside as we were leaving one night.

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