Peter guesses that every year, the San Diego Comic-Con is 30% larger than the year before. I’d assumed that when the convention center reached 100% capacity (as it did last year), that it couldn’t get any bigger. I was wrong: the convention has instead increasingly sprawled out into its downtown San Diego surroundings and beyond….
Month: July 2009
I Hate the Day Before Comic-Con
With 15+ years of experience of packing up and going to Comic-Con, you’d think one of these years it would go smoothly. But no matter how much we’ve prepared, the day before Comic-Con is always a hot, hectic mess. I can’t even remember some of the details of all any more, but I cannot remember…
A Month of Dramatic Events
Peter and I usually live an interesting life, but we try to keep it mellow just before Comic-Con, our big annual event, because there’s plenty of drama already with readying the latest version of ComicBase, making sure everything’s in place for the show, and packing everything up. Well, this year, Fate did not agree with…