TweetPink Raygun has an anecdotal but interesting report on SD Mayor Jerry Sanders doing a local radio interview: As we drove east on Interstate 8 yesterday morning, we heard Mayor Jerry Sanders of San Diego say something nasty about Comicon attendees on Cantore in the Morning on 91X. While talking about the end of Comicon [...]

TweetWe’ll be getting into this more when we write our big wrap-up, but the ironic lack of media access to panels at San Diego has gotten in just about everyone’s craw: Blog@Newsarama’s JK Parkin: 1) There should be a designated number of seats for media who are there to cover the con, so that they [...]

TweetHere’s some of what the best pundits and favored Beat pals were saying about the Very Big show. Interestingly, while creator blogs contain many of the juiciest bits, it’s the mainstream coverage — obvious comics moles who are blogging for newspapers and maagzines — that provides the most balanced coverage. § Chris Butcher takes the [...]

TweetLA Times writer Geoff Boucher was assaulted on the streets of San Diego: I was walking alone to my hotel after late Saturday night interviews with Neal Adams and Darwyn Cook. I was also talking on my cell to Spencer Weiner, the photographer for The Times shooting Comic-Con. Spencer heard everything that happened next. I [...]

TweetPW Comics Week con wrap ups: Douglas Wolk looks at thebig picture: If one word could describe this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International, held July 25-29, it would be “enormous”: big books, big buzz, big business. This was, by all estimations, the biggest Con ever; Friday, Saturday and Sunday were all completely sold out, hotel [...]