From: [j r d] at [frame.com] (James Drew)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: CON: San Diego Con (Part 1 of 2): Just the Newsbits
Date: 26 Aug 93 09:29:17 GMT

CON REPORT
San Diego Comic Con #24
August 19-22, 1993
Part 1 (of 2): Wednesday-Friday
Short From: Just the Newsbits

	For those of you who are impatient to just gets the newsbits, here
you go.  People who want the full effect should check out the unabridged
version of this report

	There *will* be spoilers in here for all sorts of things, most of
them minor.



NEWS AND SUCH:
* The DC booth was huge, and looked like it belonged in a car show.  Indeed,
	Ford was having a car show upstairs the same weekend.  Lines
	everywhere; it was pretty poorly laid out.  Nice big television
	screen setup, but without much impressive to show on it.
* Marvel and Dark Horse had "zones," but nothing to compare with DC
* Image was tucked back in the corner.  Thankfully, because you weren't
	allowed to walk through the area; you had to stand in a 100+ person
	line to get in at any time.  I managed to poke my head around the
	corner an take a peak, but that was it.  I was neither impressed nor
	interested.  I never saw any of the big Image boys all weekend, or
	even heard if they were there.
* Miracleman #24 is out.  Really. So is Tales of the Beanworld #20. (Two
	signs of the Apocalypse at one con!)
* Pogs everywhere!  (Feh!  Talk about your artificial collectors craze.)  I
	picked up a Booster Gold one that I found in a parking lot, but
	otherwise escaped unscathed.
* Palliard had a 250-copy run of an ashcan of the new "Leonard & Larry"
	collection (photocopied and a small pressrun; *that* you can get away
	with calling an ashcan), and they gave me one to use as review
	material.  The collection will be about 160 pages, and will feature
	*every* L&L strip to date (except for the most recent several, of
	course).  It *will* be great; go tell your shop to order copies (one
	for you, at least one for the shelf) *today*; don't wait for it to
	come out in October, since by then the print run is set and it will
	be too late to make more.
* Sarah Byam is no longer being represented by Star*Reach; she was listed as
	a C.I.A. client, instead.  Sharon Cho didn't give details, but I
	didn't ask; she didn't seem happy about the matter, though.
* Jeff Lang and Ted Slampyak apparently have a new publisher for Roadways,
	but they (and Katie) were *very* closemouthed as to whom.  I would
	guess Cult Press.
* Jeff will be writing a new series with Malcolm Bourne (art by Steve Leiber),
	called "looking for Nanny Katie," due from Cult Press next May.  It
	has faerie overtones to it, and Charles Vess will do the first
	issue's cover.  A preview story will appear in Dark Horse Present #77.
* Craig Russell won both an Eisner and an Inkpot Award for his Fairytales of
	Oscar Wilde vol. 1, in addition to the Harvey awarded in Chicago.  I
	guess that's a Triple Crown?
* Phil Foglio won either an Inkpot for Humor Cartooning.
* Nominees for the Best New Artist award (the Russ Manning Award) included
	Travis Charest (Darkstars) and a bunch of Image-eers... and Jeff
	Smith.  The crowd went wild, and Jeff won, deservedly.
* Neal Pozner is now walking with a cane (he didn't need one at Wonder-Con,
	in early April).  If you don't know what that probably means, don't
	worry about it.
* Christopher Taylor is a new penciller at DC, and has done Legion #51 and
	#52.  His favorite Legionnaire is Dream Girl.  #51 apparently has a
	lengthy flashback to the five-year gap, and Chris got to design
	Giffen-pocket-outfits for Dream Girl and Star Boy (who will be
	sporting a handlebar moustache).  It will also feature the final
	appearances of Kent Shakespeare and Ivy -- "But they actually *do*
	something!" said Chris.  He also got to redesign Grimbor the
	Chainsman, keeping the basic costume the same, but adding shoulder
	pads and the like, because Tom McCraw said, "I want him to look like
	Cable."  (shudder)  Chris is exactly one day older than I am.  He is
	black, and is already talking to the people at Milestone.



Part 2 will be along in a few days, with news from Saturday and Sunday.

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                             |     In retrospect, a lot of little things fell
Jim Drew                     | into place once I knew that Greta was a
[j r d] at [frame.com]                | vampire: the lack of garlic in her spice rack,
(Furry: Randy Puritan)       | the stainless steel formal silverware, even her
"Innocent, but not naive."   | award-winning nighttime photography of Eastern
B2h t c s k g+(p) rv p e     | Europe.
S8/5 g l+ y+ o+ a+ u++- j++  |     "I never had a problem with my finger
{opinions: mine != frame's}  | covering the lens," she told me.
                             |		- Marc Lynx, "Broken Bokken"
                             | (for Karl Anderson; d. June 27, 1993)