Preparing for Comic-Con
The Comic-Con schedule is up! Here are highlights from the ASIFA website. This being our very first ever Comic-Con, we are very excited although still not quite sure what to expect. Everyone has warned us that it will be an overwhelming experience, and according to Jerry Beck - there will be 80,000 people there. Whoa - Eighty thousand! That's a lot of people. Can't wait to see the costumes 
From ML episode: The Collector
So, there have been some changes to our schedule and our stay in San Diego will be extended until Sunday. We will be appearing on a ¡Mucha Lucha! panel on Sunday with Joel Kuwahara (Producer) and possibly Ron Hughart (Director of the DTV movie).
So far, here are our picks (with overlaps):
*UPDATED July 17th - thanks to AMID's Con Plans, just realised we missed some good ones!
Friday 23rd. Schedule
1:00-2:00 Spotlight on Sid Jacobson (Harvey Comics) Room 3
3:00-4:30 Cartoon Network Studios—sneak peek Room 6AB
3:00-4:00 TOKYOPOP with Lupin III creator Monkey Punch Room 2 *
4:00-5:00 Bob Clampett— Rare film footage. Room 8
4:30-6:00 Warner Bros. Animation All Action Panel Room 6AB
5:00-6:00 Sketch to Sale-Topics covered will include creating a pitch document, using agents, and getting a pitch meeting. If you want to pitch to WBA, this could be a useful one to go to, as Christoper Keenan (Senior VP of WB Animation Creative Affairs) will be on the panel. OR
5.00-6.00 Gary Baseman Room 7B
5.20-6.00 Rex Steele Nazi Smasher screening Room 4
6:00-7:00 Tom Sito: The Animation Strikes Room 7B *
7.00- Warner Bros Animation Party (by invitation)
Saturday 24th Schedule
12:00-1:30 Quick Draw! Cartoon Improv—Room 6AB OR .
12.00-1:30 .. 50 Years of Gigantor Room 2
1.00-2.00 Nickelodeon's AVATAR: The last Airbender *
1:30-3:00 Cartoon Voices Room 6AB The talented Dee Bradley Baker does some funny voices on ML season 3.
2:30-3:30 Disney/Pixar: The Incredibles Room 20
3:00-4:00 SubCultures: Toy Revolution Room 3 OR ...
3.00-4.00 ASIFA: State of the Animation Industry Room 6CDEF
4:00-5:00 Kaiju Big Battel Room 6CDEF
4:30-6:00 Hollywood, Comics and Black Culture Room 9 *
5:30-7:00 Cartoon Network: Adult Swim Room 6AB
6:00-7:00 Developing an Animated Property Room 2 Jorge, Gabe, Jon Gibson and Dave Wasson are on this panel.
8:30-10:00 Worst Cartoons Ever! (2004 Edition) Room 6AB
10:00-11:30 Bill Plympton: Hair High Room 6AB
11:30-1:30 Spike and Mike’s Room 6AB
Sunday 25th is Kiddies' Day.
12:00–1:30 Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Home Video present ¡Mucha Lucha!: The Return of Malèfico. After the screening of this movie, creators/producers Eddie Mort and Lili Chin and producer Joel Kuwahara will be available for a Q&A session. Room 5AB
3:30-4:30 Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! Room 5AB Ciro's new show for Jetix/Disney We hope there's a preview.
Also on our list:
So, a question to other Comic-con visitors, how do you prepare for this mega event? Do you bring lots of cash? Where else do you hang out in San Diego?
New York, New York!
view from the Empire State Building (2000)
Ou friends, Andrew and Shirley have so kindly invited us to stay at their place in NYC and we couldn't refuse. We've been wanting to do this forever - to be in a real urban city where you can walk around everywhere. We love New York. Leaving on Wednesday after Comic-Con...
Related Link: Photos of New York in the 70s.
Our apartment building is getting noisier. The little old lady who lives in the apartment behind us has the tv on all night. She must have some sort of 'silence-phobia' because she turns the volume up before she goes to bed. From upstairs we hear footsteps, banging, and miscellaneous unidentified sounds which also seem to start around midnight. Outside in the trees, a bird starts chirping cheerily.
"It's the insomniac bird again" says Eddie. This happens without fail, every single night. The bird chirps all through the night and shuts up in the morning.
On top of all this, our upstairs neighbours have started using their airconditioner... which is situated directly above our bed, causing our whole bedroom to hummmmmmmmmmm while we try to sleep. We're not sure what to do, not wanting to complain ... I mean, if we had an airconditioning system we'd have it on too. It has been so hot and sticky this summer ... (must buy a fan)
So there's all this noise and we find ourselves staying up even later every night such that when we crash, we're so tired we don't hear a thing.
Other links:
Duprez Dolores - illustrations
Must-see Los Angeles (blogging.la) - Taking note of the comments!
Japanese Geek Status Heirarchy (via boing boing)
Comfortstand - free music
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