SDCC follow-up Monday July 18, 2005
First of all a BIG welcome to all the nice folks that I met at the con. I hope you enjoyed your visit and enjoyed reading, Beyond the Great Chimney.
The below text has some spelling mistakes, I know. The siteKIOSK machine here at the hostel does not have a copy of word to drop the text into.
Well, the con is over and I thought that I would drop a few thoughts while I am still at the Hostel here in San Diego. The convention seemed croweded this year, but not the 100,000 that they predicted. I believe the convention will be changing a lot in the next few years. Our preocupation with Hollywood and Celebertys has changed the atmospher of the convention to one of star chasing and less about art. But change is inevible. I somehow imagine an all hollywood convention, or all video game convention in the future, leaving the comics and art as a a smaller, but more exciting venue.
There are a lot of great comics and storys out there, and I would love to see a time when some folks would be willing to give some new storys a chance and not just need to scream when a star walks by. Please read comics today.
So enough babbling from San Diego. See you all next year.
The LA Times had an article about the increasing Hollywood presence at Comic-Con, in part because attendees have the power to spread the word about new movies. (free registration or bugmenot required to access article online).
“The setting was the International Comic-Con, which began life three decades ago as a gathering where mostly young men rummaged through cardboard boxes for vintage comic books. But as Hollywood increasingly bases its movies on comics and graphic novels, the gathering has turned into a sort of Cannes for geeks: They carry such clout that the likes of Portman and other A-list celebrities make the pilgrimage here each year to work the crowd.
[...] The true-believer audience is eager to embrace the big-screen adaptations of its heroes but is equally ready to reject them.
Either way, the fans are poised to spread the word to legions of fellow fans via the Internet.”