Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
That is Mari Inukai at left who signed at our Comic Con booth. Slight photobomb! She did art for anyone who showed up and made a purchase of her Sekaiseifukudan figures. There is 9 in all, including the exclusive pink glow in the dark! I’m proud of Mari and her efforts at this signing. Don’t forget if you missed it, 12-2 tomorrow.
Sekaiseifukudan
A recipient of one of Mari’s watercolors. More photos below
Cosplay Photos at Comic Con. Enjoy. This was a fun day and it’s not even the big Cosplay day. Photos by myself and Oscar Rios.
More photos below!
San Diego Comic Con Day 2 brought a few more photos. The Conan art show? I guess it’s called: COCO-MoCA Presents: The Fine Art of The Flaming C Fan-Art Exhibit. It’s fan art, but don’t believe it since if wasn’t fan art, there wouldn’t be tons of security guards. The coolest thing is the LEGO statue! More Coco art below in the photo set.
C.S. Lee, signed was on a panel and more for Dexter. He snuck up with a mask on. Yes, he’s popular at Comic Con. I’ve told people, that the folks wearing masks are often stars who are just checking stuff out. His t shirt is a cryptic message. Read it in Korean. Michael Choo.
See more Conan art, friends, artists like James Kochalka, Skinner, Aaron Horkey, Dave Stolte, Miso, Jeffrey Brown, Gene Luen Yang, Carlos Ramos and more below:
The Comic Con has started and I’d like to think it’s a great way to open when Marvel Comics King, Stan Lee is right near your booth with just a tiny mob. He’s talking to Neal Adams in this shot. I can’t tell you who the photo bombers are. On fans, Neal Adams said, “at least they’re nice to us” and Stan Lee said, “they’re not to me”. It wasn’t too long ago when Stan Lee was relatively forgotten by the world, and now with the good remakes of the films (not the weird Fantastic Four, Spiderman TV show, Ang Lee’s Hulk, Punisher, etc) which are now worth billions, he’s back to being known by the masses as Stan the Man – a serious god.
The GR booth features the red lanterns. It’s a beacon. I love hearing, “I’m at the Giant Robot booth.” Yes of course! Look up at the signage, you can’t miss us. I think this is my 18th year in a row attending this convention. The first was in 1993, I’m pretty sure. It’s changed of course especially in size and in scope. The actual comic book dealers seem more and more scarce, and the Hollywood quotient is larger than ever. But this year, what’s the hot promotion? Last year, it seemed like Scott Pilgrim was everywhere, but this year? I’m not quite sure. Maybe it’s just an amalgam of a lot of features and television. We’ll see. Keep updated. We have a lot coming up. This was only preview night.
There’s plenty more photos below!
That’s me hitting the stage for my 2 minutes of Pecha Kucha in the first photo below. I was following soon after the creator of the entire event Hitoshi Abe, so that added a tiny layer of pressure. There was a healthy audience at the JACCC plaza again (Let’s do more events at the other location next time, ok?). Hundreds sitting and standing everywhere. I felt some nerves in my hand as I stood there and spoke. While I was getting going, I eased the nerves in my hand while not missing a beat. That never happens, I wonder why it did that night.
This is sad. She was walking around to promote this event. 28… she told me they can’t find some of her cousins to this date. She also said that Sendai gets no aid at all. hopeforsendai.com