WonderCon convenes this Friday in Anaheim. As I write this, Saturday-only badges are sold out but you can still buy one for Friday, one for Sunday or one for all three days. Those options may narrow shortly. The entire programming schedule is online here and here are the six I'm hosting…
The Sergio, Mark and Tom Show
Mark Evanier, Sergio Aragonés, and Tom Luth bring you the long-running, award-winning comic featuring the ship-sinking, everyone-slaying Groo the Wanderer. This is a panel where those three people talk about what they do, how they do it, why they do it and how one or two of them actually gets paid for doing it. It's just a very silly panel featuring silly people who do a silly comic book.
Friday, March 23, 2018 from 1:30pm to 2:30pm in Room 208Writing for Animation
Interested in writing for cartoons or video games? Then you'll want to hear three people who've done it tell you how they've done it: Marv Wolfman (Epic Mickey 2, The Adventures of Superman), Shelly Goldstein (Shelldon, Flying with Byrd), and moderator Mark Evanier (The Garfield Show, Scooby Doo). They'll talk about script formats, breaking a story, getting the assignment, dealing with sinister forces, and everything else.
Friday, March 23, 2018 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm in Room 300DQuick Draw!
It's another battle to the death—or at least until dinnertime!—with three lightning-fast cartoonists armed only with Sharpies and sharp senses of humor. The three cartoon combatants are Sergio Aragonés (Groo the Wanderer, MAD magazine), Lonnie Milsap (bacön, Silly Comics)), and Tom Richmond (MAD magazine's star caricaturist). They'll be drawing the suggestions of you, the audience, as well as the Quizmaster of Quick Draws, Mark Evanier. As always, no wagering.
Saturday, March 24, 2018 from 4:30pm to 5:30pm in North 200BCartoon Voices
Once again, your host Mark Evanier (The Garfield Show) gathers five masters of speaking for animated superstars to demonstrate their talents. The dais will consist of Neil Ross (Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, The Transformers), Eliza Jane Schneider (Final Fantasy, Skylanders), Wally Wingert (Batman: Arkham Asylum, The Garfield Show), Julie Nathanson (Marvel's Avengers, Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, Far Cry 5), and Townsend Coleman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Tick).
Saturday, March 24, 2018 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm in North 200BCover Story: Art of the Cover
What constitutes a good cover on a comic book? How are the best ones created? Be there for this "shop talk" discussion with artists who've been responsible for some of the best, WonderCon special guests Ryan Benjamin (WildC.A.T.S, Batman Beyond), Mitch Gerads (Mister Miracle, The Sheriff of Babylon), Dan Jurgens (Superman, Batman Beyond), and Ed Piskor (Hip Hop Family Tree, X-Men: Grand Design). Moderated by Mark Evanier.
Sunday, March 25, 2018 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room 300BThe Annual Jack Kirby Tribute Panel
They call him the King of the Comics and maybe it should also be King of the Cinema, since so many of his co-creations (like Black Panther) have made it so big in the movies. As always, WonderCon takes time to talk about arguably the greatest superhero artist of them all. Joining in the discussion this year are Kirby museum curator Tom Kraft, attorney Paul S. Levine, former Kirby assistant Steve Sherman, and moderator (another former Kirby assistant) Mark Evanier.
Sunday, March 25, 2018 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm in Room 211
As always, things may change. In fact, the participants in a few of my panels have changed since the program guide went to press and was posted on the convention website. The above is correct as of now.
I will be there all three days. I do not sell things at conventions and I refuse to sit at a table for long periods but I will be wandering the hall and if you see me, please say howdy. I can often be found in the vicinity of Sergio Aragonés' table, which is located at A-01. He has a new fake mustache which is much more convincing than those cheap ones he got a case of at Costco years ago.