My Print colleague Rich Shivener has already given you a sampling of the wealth of knowledge and experience to be had at Comic-Con: just read his interviews with Mouse Guard’s David Petersen, the Cartoon Network’s Kassandra Heller, super-heroics illustrator Taylor Sterling, and web comics’ Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson. All it takes for you to suss them out is a perceptive eye, an inquisitive mind, and a friendly “hi” (see: Abraham Morales, below). Just look around you: plenty of your fellow attendees are also involved the creative arts, either directly or tangentially. And, hey: a vast multitude of the official guests you don’t know are also worth meeting and learning about.Ģ. And typically, they love sharing “war stories” of career frustrations and successes, techniques and strategies, personal insights, and so forth.ġb. And they’re a whole lot easier to access: you’ll find them in the artist, illustrator, exhibitor, small press, and autograph areas and elsewhere throughout the vast main exhibit hall. Okay, they may not have the celebrity cachet of, say, a Jennifer Lawrence, but guests like Chip Kidd, Peter Bagge, and Craig Yoe are super-stars in their own right. So here are some suggestions on how to indulge and immerse yourself in visual culture, free of Hollywood hassle:ġ. The truth is, you can easily spend most of your time in the company of like-minded creative spirits and comic book artists who share your passions, whether it’s cartooning and illustration, storyboards and animation, product and poster design, or whatever. But what gets all the press is just a piddling part of the Con experience, quality-wise. San Diego Comic-Con International is famous, as well as feared and loathed, for its lengthy lines of lemmings endlessly waiting to get into mammoth show biz hype-fests that are usually available to the whole world on YouTube within hours. The world’s largest comic book convention has some secrets that are practically unknown to lovers of graphic design and illustration.
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