July 24th - 27th, 2008
I met the actual Parthenon from Who Wants To Be A Superhero?
Entertainment Weekly sponsored a comic creators panel...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSV96JXKy7g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuHrIMCaMoc
With Grant Morrison, Colleen Doran (who was hilarious as she recounted her childhood crush on Aquaman - but only the clean shaven... wet... slick one! And she also mentioned Cerebus - way to go!), Robert Kirkman, Mike Mignola...
Matt Fraction, John Cassday and Jim Lee......
Took a quick trip down to the floor before it closed and hung out with artists Jacen Burrows who worked on Garth Ennis' 303 and Chronicles Of Wormwood (and will be doing the art on the upcoming Crossed).
To round out the night there was a showing of a documentary film Independents: A Guide for the Creative Spirit and a Q&A session with Kevin Eastman (who I got to meet and is a really nice guy), Wendy Pini, Jim Woodring, Keith Knight, Trevor Alixopulos...
and Gary Groth...
http://www.independentsdoc.com/
There is some Cerebus in the movie (a few pages float by), but Dave declined to appear in the film because (according to the director) it didn't focus on Cerebus enough.