WonderCon wrap-up
Walking around San Francisco and checking out the architecture, I had this horrible thought... How many Chinese laborers died to build the Moscone Center? How many Asians got blown-up with dynamite so I could get graphic novels at 50% off? How many Asians lost their lives so I could gawk at former Battlestar Galactica actors? It bummed me out for the rest of the day.
So a few more bits from WonderCon-
This is from Saturday night's panel on Animation Production. From L to R, that's Adam Beechen, Stan Berkowitz, Dwayne McDuffie, and Greg Weisman.
Weirdest part of the panel was the audience. In the front row was a guy rocking back and forth talking to himself. In the middle of the audience was the scary-looking guy who interrupted the Mark Evanier-Gerard Jones panel - this time he was reading and loudly crumpling a newspaper. Security had to ask him to knock it off, so he left - much to everyone's relief. And then in the back was a deaf woman who would occasionally mutter things to herself.
Sigh. These are the people that watch the shows we write for.
Outside after the panel, got to meet writers Paul Giacoppo and Henry Gilroy. Then a bunch of us went to Isotope Comics's party for writer J.M DeMatteis.
Sunday, caught a bit of a great panel with Jane Espenson. Man, if you thought her writing was great, she's even better in person. Smart with terrific insight, plus she looks so much younger in person than in her pictures online - I gotta figure out how she does it. Then caught a bit of a panel with Steve Melching, but couldn't stay because we had to get out of town. Six hours later, we were back in Los Angeles.
It was a great weekend - met a ton of people and got to hang out with people with whom I never get a chance to hang out with.
Let's do it again next year.
So a few more bits from WonderCon-
This is from Saturday night's panel on Animation Production. From L to R, that's Adam Beechen, Stan Berkowitz, Dwayne McDuffie, and Greg Weisman.
Weirdest part of the panel was the audience. In the front row was a guy rocking back and forth talking to himself. In the middle of the audience was the scary-looking guy who interrupted the Mark Evanier-Gerard Jones panel - this time he was reading and loudly crumpling a newspaper. Security had to ask him to knock it off, so he left - much to everyone's relief. And then in the back was a deaf woman who would occasionally mutter things to herself.
Sigh. These are the people that watch the shows we write for.
Outside after the panel, got to meet writers Paul Giacoppo and Henry Gilroy. Then a bunch of us went to Isotope Comics's party for writer J.M DeMatteis.
Sunday, caught a bit of a great panel with Jane Espenson. Man, if you thought her writing was great, she's even better in person. Smart with terrific insight, plus she looks so much younger in person than in her pictures online - I gotta figure out how she does it. Then caught a bit of a panel with Steve Melching, but couldn't stay because we had to get out of town. Six hours later, we were back in Los Angeles.
It was a great weekend - met a ton of people and got to hang out with people with whom I never get a chance to hang out with.
Let's do it again next year.
posted by Eugene at 11:00 AM
1 Comments:
Eugene, I had an excellent time moderating this panel though I was admittedly nervous. It's the biggest room I've ever overseen (well largest attendees, I've been in rooms that large with less people.
I later learned that this panel at Wondercon has traditionally been "how to get in the biz" focused, so the fact we did the production walkthrough made it new and fresh. I hope people got something out of it. It sure felt that way.
Personally, I thought it was cool the deaf lady and her interpreter were there. And she probably doesn't think anything of muttering to herself because she doesn't understand the impact of that. I can forgive that. Now the others, not speaking there except that security's move to tell the one guy to stop talking was poorly timed only in that *I* was talking at the time and I had to figure out who was being addressed... him or me... as I was in a bit of long explanation at the time. But I am glad he left.
And yes, you really do have to get used to the idea that a wide range of people do watch what we write and produce. But your examples are I believe in my heart the minority.
For me, I'd love to do it again sometime.
Post a Comment
<< Home