http://www.slj.com/2012/08/books-media/graphic-novels/new-comics-make-their-debut-at-san-diego-comic-con/ The world's largest reviewer of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:19:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.slj.com/2012/08/books-media/graphic-novels/new-comics-make-their-debut-at-san-diego-comic-con/#comment-439 Jack Baur Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:40:17 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=12036#comment-439 Nice write-up! You're absolutely spot-on about the media -- and much of the audience -- wanting to portray ComicCon as not for comics anymore. On the one hand I'm sympathetic to that; as a person who is there solely for the comics I get annoyed about people clamoring for whoever is in Hall H and having the navigate the floor past the ridiculous media booths. I also don't like the fact that many, many comic book fans can't get in now that tickets sell out in 3 minutes and registration regularly crashes the servers. On the other hand, if ComicCon isn't about comics, how did I manage to spend 600 bucks on comic books there, and walk away with autographs from people like Bill Scienkewicz, Dave McKean, Ed Brubaker, Scott Snyder, etc. etc.? Nice write-up! You’re absolutely spot-on about the media — and much of the audience — wanting to portray ComicCon as not for comics anymore. On the one hand I’m sympathetic to that; as a person who is there solely for the comics I get annoyed about people clamoring for whoever is in Hall H and having the navigate the floor past the ridiculous media booths. I also don’t like the fact that many, many comic book fans can’t get in now that tickets sell out in 3 minutes and registration regularly crashes the servers. On the other hand, if ComicCon isn’t about comics, how did I manage to spend 600 bucks on comic books there, and walk away with autographs from people like Bill Scienkewicz, Dave McKean, Ed Brubaker, Scott Snyder, etc. etc.?

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