Photo Count: 20 today (56 overall). Not as good as last year (where I was up to the 70s by now), but I am also in a lesser widely-known comic book (Chobits). But David Mack did take my picture.

Yes, I said that correctly.

So I went to Comic-Con in my Chi outfit again today, but I went to find David Mack specifically and say hello. It's kinda cool that 1) I will have a context to speak to him outside of Comic-Con since he's participating in the speaker series this November and 2) he said he remembered me from last year, which may have been a lie if it had been from anyone else, but somehow I suspect David Mack wouldn't do something like that. Anyway, yeah, I got totally embarrassed talking to him about why I'm going to teach Kabuki whilst in my Chi outfit, but then he asked if he could take a picture of me, so I said okay. I hope it's a good thing. David Mack is not only one of the nicest people at Comic-Con, he's just one of the nicest people ever. Since I'm teaching, and I have 14 students enrolled, he gave me free copies of several books (enough for all 14) and then signed the stuff he gave me. He is such a sweet, sweet man.

Panels I went to today: a preview of the Watchmen; the cast and creators of Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog including Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris (I had a huge crush on Nathan Fillion--he was the only reason I started re-watching Desperate Housewives--but now I have a huge crush on him). From Dr. Horrible we went to a panel on 24, to which Keifer Sutherland was in attendance, baby! Then I participated in the Comic Arts Conference: Comic Studies Forum where we discussed the current state of comics studies in America, where we'd like to see it, and formulated projects in order to help us obtain those goals. It was really informative and I'm really happy to have met fellow "educated fanboys/fangirls" as we deemed ourselves. I was the person taking the minutes--which I have never done, but I volunteered to do it although I'm not entirely sure what "taking the minutes" means, except to say that I should take notes on what was said, which I had planned to do anyway.

So, I may not be in the Masquerade. I had been planning on it, I sent in a photo of my costume around May 15th. But I never heard back, but last Monday I got a call that I could be in it--what they really meant was that I could be on stand-by. I thought I was guaranteed a spot, but apparently it's first come, first served, and I forgot to drop my paperwork off at the Masquerade desk yesterday.

I'm supposed to find out by noon tomorrow if I can be in the Masquerade, but that's after an hour long orientation at a prime time in the morning: 11:00-12:00. Tori Amos has a comic book out, Comic Book Tattoo, that David Mack contributed to by the way--and the Masquerade orientation overlaps it for like half an hour! So I'm #31 on the standby list. I'd rather go to the Tori Amos/David Mack panel. So, I think the Masquerade is just going to have be a 2009 goal.

Labels: comic-con, cosplay, david mack, Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog, Joss Whedon, masquerade

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at July 27, 2008 7:04 PM  Natalia said...

Here's the article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/en_nm/comiccon_dc;_ylt=ApuBatOFqJwtluTnwFE2mges0NUE

 

at July 27, 2008 7:04 PM  Natalia said...

I love reading about your Comic-Con adventures. Glad to see you're having such fun!

Here's a link to an article I found interesting. What do you think about the idea that Comic-Con lately has marginalized the comic book vender/collector?