More photos from the con. These are in no particular order…
This is from a panel I was on but I did not moderate. The moderator was Gary Sassaman and he's the one in the back. He set up this panel as an extension of his video series, installments of which I often feature here. It's called Tales From My Spinner Rack and it consists of Gary recalling comics he loved as a kid, particularly in the sixties. This time out, he brought in John Morrow (of TwoMorrows Books and The Jack Kirby Collector) to discuss and assess the covers Mr. Kirby drew for his original run on the Fantastic Four comic books. That's John in the Hawaiian shirt and if I look tired in this photo, I don't know why. This was only my second panel of this convention.
This was my seventh. My pal Mark Waid and I do this panel called "Two Marks Explain Everything" which operates on the premise that if you have a question about anything pertaining to the comic book field and neither of us can answer it, nobody can. So for an hour, folks threw questions at us and we did our best to answer 'em. In one or two cases, the answer as to why some company had done something was "Because the guy in charge was stupid" but that's an answer…and in many cases, a correct one.
On Friday afternoon at the con, I hosted five panels back-to-back in Room 10 and the "Two Marks Explain Everything" one was followed directly by me interviewing my friend-of-many-years Don Glut in the same place. Later that evening at the Eisner Awards Ceremony, I would present Don with the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing, but first I got to interview Don about his long career working for among other houses, Warren Publishing, Gold Key Comics and Marvel. The award is for a writer who has been responsible for a strong body of work that has not received sufficient attention and that perfectly describes Don's output. You can read more about him here.
More photos from the con to follow. I have a lot of 'em this year.