The Friday programming for San Diego is now live, including something I personally am very, very nervous about. Boasting/fretting after the jump.
12:30-1:30 Hey, Kids! Blogs About Comics!— It seems like everybody has a blog these days, but here’s a group of dedicated bloggers devoted to writing about comics and news about the comics industry. Moderator Heidi MacDonald (pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/) talks to Tom Spurgeon (comicsreporter.com), Ron Hogan (mediabistro.com/galleycat), Graeme McMillan (blog.newsarama.com), Chris Butcher (comics.212.net/) and Tom McLean (weblogs.variety.com/bags_and_boards/) about the daily business of blogging, breaking news, and the comics world. Room 24A
No, I don’t really know what I’m doing there either, amongst all those people who, you know, have actual jobs in the industry and stuff. I was asked! I said yes because Kate talked me into it. So, I have a fear of speaking in front of more than, say, three people at once, so I’m expecting lots of sweating, nervous fidgeting and inopportune swearing from my section of the podium. If my ability to do something embarrassing in front of a lot of people isn’t enough to entice you to come, then how about Tom Spurgeon promising to propose to Heidi MacDonald?
July 7th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
It’s like prison, Graeme. Just beat the crap out of McLean the second you get on stage, and the rest of us will respect you.
July 7th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Shanks can be expensed, Graeme.
July 7th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Oh dear. Somebody is going to be asked about Rampaging I’m afraid.
July 7th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
“Oh dear. Somebody is going to be asked about Rampaging I’m afraid.”
But I’m sure that Chris Butcher and Tom will be able to field those questions well.
July 7th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Hey, don’t worry — you’re more connected to the industry than I am! And I’d be the first to admit I get nearly all my comics items from everybody else on the panel…
July 7th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
“I’d be the first to admit I get nearly all my comics items from everybody else on the panel…”
If you let me make some cheap Ann Coulter plagarism jokes, I’m sure we’ll get on famously.
July 7th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
There are classy Ann Coulter plagiarism jokes?
July 8th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
If there’s going to be bloggers shanking eachother, I may have to go to SDCC after all.
July 8th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
“There are classy Ann Coulter plagiarism jokes?”
It all depends on how you hold your pinky, Tom.
July 9th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
I hope to have a shank by shank breakdown (as long as you survive). It’ll be a veritable lost episode of Oz, people. Seriously though, has the making of a great panel folks. Start whittling your toothbrushes now.
July 9th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
It’ll be most true to the format if you tape it, post it on YouTube and post that on your blogs.