Why do we attend Comic Con? It’s mostly due to meeting the
comic creators that do not show up at other Southern California shows. This
year at the DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and Image booths we were able to meet and
get signatures and sometimes sketches from creators such as Billy Tan, Siya
Oum, Chrissie Zullo, David Finch, Jock, Marjorie Liu, Chip Zdarksy, Tom Yeates
and Len Wein.
The Marvel booth is usually the busiest booth (non-product
related) on the floor but this year with no movie premier event happening the
location was more subdued though still traffic heavy.
There was a lack of
big-name artists/writers appearing there and the usual people that appears such
as J. Scott Campbell, Mark Brooks, Humberto Ramos either didn’t have
appearances there or no longer even sketched for free.
DC’s booth was split into two signing areas which did cause
confusion with attendees at times when which table a creator would be appearing
at was unknown causing line-ups for them to spiral into oblivion.
One of the
quicker booths to get autographs and sketches was Dark Horse, possibly due to
having some not-as-well know creators signing which caused be to go ahead and
get in their signing queue since it was very quick and Dark Horse providing
free posters or mini-prints for the creators to sign.
Image had a more wrist-band needed line-up this year (e.g.
Chew, Snyder, McFarlane, etc.) but was a bit more easily obtained if you went
directly to their booth once the doors opened. Fortunately Image had limits on
the amount of wristbands they gave out which helped fans not get cut-off due to
time limits of the creators.
IDW had some good signing events throughout the week and
creators such as Mike Zeck and Don Rose appeared and signed happily for their
fans.
