One of the highlights of the show was sitting at the DC booth for an [...]]]> I’m back from San Diego, having had the best experience at SDCC in the history of ever. Just a fantastic time. (The fact that I’m only now just beginning to recover is a sign that I had a very good time.)

One of the highlights of the show was sitting at the DC booth for an hour each day at the Vertigo signing table, meeting readers of Cinderella and iZombie, getting to talk to readers. The fact that DC had hung an enormous banner of Gwen from the cover to iZombie #1 didn’t hurt matters at all.

My sincerest thanks to everyone who stopped by and told me how much they’re enjoying iZombie. Thanks to everyone who came to the various panels and laughed at my jokes. And my sincerest thanks to Karina at the Bayfront Hilton’s Odysea Bar, who kept me well supplied with caipirinhas throughout the weekend.

One of the other real highlights of SDCC every year is the chance to meet so many talented creators whose work I’ve enjoyed for years. The chance to tell Paul Levitz what his LSH run meant to me, or Kurt Busiek how much I need a return of the Silver Centurions, or to tell younger creators like Ming Doyle or Mike Maihack or Kieron Gillen and on and on and on how much I’m looking forward to their new work–to me, that is what a comic-con should really be about. Comics, in other words. And despite all of the Hollywood nonsense and Hall H chaos and focus-group-tested pavilions and such, the fact that at the core of this ever expanding media convention we can still get together and talk about comics means I’ll keep coming back, year after year.

Oh, and did I mention that I had breakfast with Stan Lee…?

If anyone is interested in tracking me down [...]]]> Tomorrow I leave town for San Diego (well, first for Duncanville, where Georgia will be staying with my folks, and then for San Diego at a ridiculously early pre-dawn hour on Wednesday). This is promising to be my busiest SDCC yet, but should be a lot of fun.

If anyone is interested in tracking me down at official functions, here is my list of panels and signings and such. Other than that, I should be holed up somewhere with a drink in my hand, probably at the Gaslamp Hilton during the daylight hours and at the Hilton Bayfront after dinner.

THURSDAY, JULY 22
12:00-1:00pm: SIGNING @ DC booth (#1915)
6:15-7:15pm: PANEL – Vertigo: The New Classics (Room 6A)
Evening: BOOM! Party @ Bayfront Hilton

FRIDAY, JULY 23
10:00-11:00am: PANEL – With Great Powers Come Great Stories (Room 32AB)
12:00pm: ROBERT E HOWARD LUNCH at the Gaslamp Hilton
4:00-5:00pm: SIGNING @ DC booth
5:30-6:30pm: PANEL – Vertigo: On the Edge (Room 6DE)

SATURDAY, JULY 24
4:00-5:00pm: SIGNING @ DC booth
6:45-7:45pm: PANEL – Fables Forum 2010 (Room 6DE)

SUNDAY, JULY 25
2:30-3:30pm: SIGNING @ DC booth

Kiel Figgins’s Tron Homage: Disk [...]]]> Thanks are due to Topless Robot for pointing this fountain of awesomeness. The digital artists of the 3G Society are engaging in a bit of friendly competition, to see who can make the best tribute to the granddaddy of all CGI, Tron. And the results so far have been pretty fantastic.

Kiel Figgins’s Tron Homage: Disk Battle:

Garrick Campsey’s tribute featuring a lightcycle race.

And here’s one not done for the competition, per se, but posted in the comments. It was a piece done by Green Grass Studios for the Dallas Mavericks.

Keep watching the 3G Society thread for more Tron-y goodness.

Working backwards, I feel compelled to point out this fantastic mash-up between Big Daddy Roth and Big Trouble in Little China, the “Lo Pan [...]]]> I’ve raved about the work of artist Jason Chalker on the Ramble before, but two new gems have popped up on Jason’s blog in the last few days that merit special mention.

Working backwards, I feel compelled to point out this fantastic mash-up between Big Daddy Roth and Big Trouble in Little China, the “Lo Pan Express.”

The image is avalable as a print, and would make a fine addition to the art collection of any discriminating home.

Next is an image that Jason posted a couple of days ago, promoting his forthcoming exhibit at the Amy’s Ice Cream on 6th Street in Austin.

Now, if you know Austin, you know that Amy’s Ice Cream offers some of the best ice cream on the planet, and starting July 1st the 6th Street location is also going to be putting on display the manliest of manly art I know, from the manly Jason Chalker himself. What do you have to lose?

Over on Time.com’s “Techland” blog, Douglas Wolk interviewed me about my “secret origins” as a comic book fanatic, which [...]]]> I’ve been lax about pointing out interviews here lately, since I started posting regular updates on Twitter. But just to cover the bases, here are a few interviews that have appeared recently that might be of interest.

Over on Time.com’s “Techland” blog, Douglas Wolk interviewed me about my “secret origins” as a comic book fanatic, which includes a bit about Dust to Dust and iZombie, as well as the revelation of the debt I owe to Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew.

My spectacular collaborator Mike Allred and I listed our personal soundtracks for the first issue of iZombie for Largehearted Boy’s “Book Notes” last month.

Christian Lipski has done a three part interview with Allred for Examiner.com, the first part of which is all about iZombie (but be sure to check out the other two parts, too, which are just as good!).

I’ve done a couple more interviews recently, but I don’t think they’ve appeared online yet. I’ll update the blog as they become available.