On Saturday morning at the Comic-Con, we'll be doing our annual Quick Draw game…and this isn't really a plug because we're going to fill the room and turn hundreds away. So it doesn't matter to me if you attend or not.
The way it works is that we have three fast cartoonists on stage. Each has a projector device and there are huge screens so you can see what they're drawing as they draw it. I'm out in the audience with a microphone hurling challenges at them and getting suggestions from the folks who've come to see this spectacle. It's always interesting and usually very funny.
Two of the three cartoonists are always Sergio Aragonés and Scott Shaw! The third seat rotates and this year, it'll be filled by a guy I've been pestering for years to come and play. He finally (finally!) said yes.
Floyd Norman went to work for the Disney Studios in '56, in time to work on Sleeping Beauty. He worked on many of their features and on other projects for the studio since, and also branched out to other studios on occasion. He's one of the cleverest cartoonists I know…as a few thousand of you will see on Saturday. (No pressure, Floyd.)
Not long ago, he received the highest honor you can get at the Walt Disney Company short of being paid well. They named him a Disney Legend, which is a distinction given to few. Here's his acceptance speech at the ceremony…