From the War Zone: Day 1 (sic)

First day at Comic Con. Preview Night was packed. Fighting my way past the Warners` booth and left the floor at 8:45. It took me over an hour to drive 3 blocks to get to my hotel.

Before leaving I talked to Al Feldstein, a man who distorted my childhood. He said that he couldn`t see any damage but I think he was just covering himself.

A CalArts student had a piece of free animation software called Go Animate. It is basically a library of drag and drop pre-animated characters for a Flash like animation product. Not too impressed. It would be very hard to do real animation with this product but they gave me a free thumb drive so I can get behind that part of their handout.

Thursday (today) I have my Animation on a ShoeString panel 2:30 to 3:30 in room 30 A&B. Tom Sito has his Click and Clack Panel at 10 AM in room 2. I plan on seeing that one. Spotlight on Flyod Norman is 5 to 6 at room 7 A&B.

Mark Evnier has a number of killer panels which I intend to see on Friday. Friday at 12:30 PM he has a 70s comics panel with Howard Chaykin, Paul Gulacy, Jim Starlin, Joe Station, Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson followed by a 2 PM 70s animation panel with Ruby Spears. And then at 3 a Spotlight on Al Jaffee panel.

Once more into the breach.