LB Comic Con Pt. 1

Man it is tough to get into fall when it's 92 here at the beach. It's officially October. Come on! By keeping all curtains closed in my apartment, and putting the fan on oscillate, I have managed somehow to avoid being sweaty in my own home. The portable AC unit is working, but expensive, so I try to only use it on days when it's unbearable. Meanwhile, in my future city of Philadelphia it's currently 52 degrees. People there get to wear jackets. I have about 5 cute 52 degree weather jackets gathering dust right now. Next year, hopefully I'll be wearing them and drinking pumpkin lattes, not once thinking about whether my makeup is melting.

Anyway, complainypants can take a seat, because I am gonna have a big awesome weekend. Not only is my Wonder Woman tattoo going to get some color-which I am super excited about-but M. got me a weekend pass to the first annual Long Beach Comic Convention. Yep, Long Beach gets its own ComicCon. I didn't even know about it until a few days ago, but thankfully M. cares about his community and reads the local paper. The convention will have a lot of famous people in the comics world, as well as a Robot Chicken panel, with Seth Green.
I've been a big Seth Green fan for a long time. He's the go to guy in Hollywood when you want to cast a nerd with sympathetic qualities (which is what I like to think I am). He was Scott Evil in the Austin Powers movies. And he played a role in the heist film The Italian Job, which I saw on my first date with M. But I will always love him as Oz from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

There are at least 5 female artists on the list of guests, one of them being Amanda Conner, who is working on Power Girl now, but was one of the first artists to work on the Vampirella comics.

Stan Lee is going to be there. Which is cool and gives the con some credibility for sure, but I'm there, of course for the learnin' and for the ladies.

The best part of this convention is that it seems to be focused on artists, with a lot of panels aimed at developing skills in digital art, character building, and narrative structure. I'm looking forward to those. Here's hoping there are other ladies there who like comics and I'm not the only woman there not in some kind of costume. No, I'm not going in costume. I think my costume choices are pretty limited if I'm going to do a comic character. I'd have to do someone from Love and Rockets and I don't think anyone would get it.

I'll let you know how it goes....