Comments on: Comic Con http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2009/07/16/robert-j-sawyer/comic-con/ Just another Bordersblog.com weblog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:27:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: robertjsawyer http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2009/07/16/robert-j-sawyer/comic-con/comment-page-1/#comment-1173 robertjsawyer Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:51:37 +0000 http://bordersblog.com/scifi/?p=245#comment-1173 I was a Special Guest at San Diego Comic-Con last year, and had a blast. But, man, is it crowded! They get 140,000 people. Literary stuff is a small part of what's on offer -- you get the same-size crowd at a SDCC literary event as you do at a Worldcon literary event (and Worldcon -- the World Science Fiction Convention -- draws only 5,000 people or so). I love Comic-Con, and am sad I won't be there this year (there will be a FlashForward panel, but I'm up in Saskatoon finishing off my residency at the Canadian Light Source synchrotron -- also way, way cool). Not many food choices in the convention center, and all are overpriced. Bring a water bottle and some power bars to munch on. :) I was a Special Guest at San Diego Comic-Con last year, and had a blast. But, man, is it crowded! They get 140,000 people. Literary stuff is a small part of what’s on offer — you get the same-size crowd at a SDCC literary event as you do at a Worldcon literary event (and Worldcon — the World Science Fiction Convention — draws only 5,000 people or so).

I love Comic-Con, and am sad I won’t be there this year (there will be a FlashForward panel, but I’m up in Saskatoon finishing off my residency at the Canadian Light Source synchrotron — also way, way cool).

Not many food choices in the convention center, and all are overpriced. Bring a water bottle and some power bars to munch on. :)

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