Comic-Con@Home — which is what they call the online-only version of Comic-Con International — takes place July 23-25 on the computer you're using to read this website. There are all sorts of online opportunities to buy stuff which doesn't much interest me but but which will delight many. You can find out all about it on the convention website.
There will also be a great many online panels and the schedule for them will be posted soon. I recorded three…
THE ANNUAL JACK KIRBY TRIBUTE PANEL
me discussing Jack with artist Walt Simonson and writer-publisher Paul Levitz.GROO MEETS TARZAN
me discussing the soon-to-be-released Groo Meets Tarzan mini-series with Sergio Aragonés and Thomas Yeates.CARTOON VOICES
me interviewing four great Cartoon Voice Artists: Candi Milo (Space Jam: A New Legacy), Wally Wingert (Arkham Asylum), Jenny Yokibori (The Simpsons) and Zeno Robinson (Pokémon).
Dates and times of these panels will be announced shortly and at some point, they will all be posted on this page.
I'm getting about one e-mail per day now asking me when Sergio and/or I will be appearing at live, in-person conventions. Neither of us would be doing a lot of that even if there'd been no global pandemic but the next one I expect to attend is the Comic-Con Special Edition which will take place in San Diego November 26-28.
Just about nothing has been formally announced about it but I expect it will be a smaller version of the usual Comic-Con International. I'm assuming a smaller Exhibit Hall with fewer exhibitors and programming with fewer panels…but still quite enough of all that stuff to please a lower number of attendees. I'm also assuming there won't be a new wave of viral concerns that will keep me and others away but I think we've all learned by now that it's hard to count on anything in the Age of COVID.
There are other conventions popping up here and there. I passed on the few that invited me and had no interest in the ones that didn't. After (probably) spending Thanksgiving Weekend in San Diego, I'm thinking the next will be WonderCon in Anaheim, April 1-3, 2022.
By Thanksgiving and certainly by April 1 next year, I expect to not be worried about catching any versions of the coronavirus. However, just to play it safe, I'm planning to cosplay as the Golden Age Sandman so I can wear a gas mask and I'll be brandishing some sort of weapon that can fire Pfizer darts into the foolishly-unvaccinated.