Thursday, July 21 - Dan and I took Uber downtown that morning and split up. He had some items to pick up and I was registered for a conference at the San Diego Public Library. For several years the SDPL has given space to Comic-Con for some off-site programs, as well as holding events that tied into comics culture (such as exhibits of art). This year for the first time the organizations co-sponsored the 'Comics Conference for Librarians and Educators', a three-day series of panels covering the use of graphic novels in education, creating graphic novel collections in Libraries and how-to programs on a series of topics. As I was going to be in San Diego, and a Comic-Con registration was required for attendance it wasn't hard to decide to take in the Thursday events which focused on comics/graphic novels in the Library.
The panels ranged from creating a graphic novel collection policy, to working with the Free Comic Book Day organization and putting together a Library comics convention. The panelists were from the comics industry, Librarians, and SDCC reps, among others. All were very informative and it was nice to actually run into a couple of other Librarians I know also in attendance. If everything works out, we might actually attempt a mini-con here at the Orange Public Library.
Following the last panel I headed back to the Convention Center area where ComicCon HQ (a website run in affiliation with the con) was holding a 'meet & greet' for fans of the Schmoes Know podcasts. These are now connected with the Collider Video and Popcorn Talk podcast networks, that you can find over on YouTube. I've been watching and listening to the main Schmoes, Kristian Harloff and Mark Ellis (both of whom met while doing stand-up comedy) for several years. One of the first YouTube videos I ever made, in the short time I was doing those, was in response to one of their early movie review podcasts. I've run into them a few times at earlier cons, but wanted to use this opportunity to do so again. The CCHQ gathering was held at the Fox Sports Bar near the con center. There were freebies, contests, free juice and water, as well as some of the other Collider folks taking selfies and meeting their fans. Only had a few minutes to chat with Kristian, Mark, Jeremy Jahns, Mark Rielly and a couple of others, before heading off to meet Dan.
Despite what I had vowed last year and up to that morning, I somehow found myself with Dan standing in line behind the marina waiting for armbands to once again get into Hall H on Friday. The good thing was that this was after 6:00 pm and we were ONLY needed to wait about three hours before we got our bands were able to head back to homebase.
Sorry it's taken this long to get back to all this, but there should only be one or two more of these posts to cover the Friday & Saturday events. See you then!
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