Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Austin on the left wearing a paperrad shirt One of the best parts of Comicon is the fact that Austin English, one of the GRNY sign makers said to a press person. Who knows if Austin realized that the article this person would write would go to a few news outlets, including the NY Times (not sure if it was online only or what – can anyone confirm if it was in print on saturday the 25th?), but it did go to some other locations including ZDNet. Read their article. Here’s Austin’s quote: “I would define comics as just words and pictures together,” said Austin English, an employee and artist at the pop-culture outlet Giant Robot, one of many exhibitors that strayed quite a bit from the comics-convention archetype. Words and pictures, however, didn’t really come close to describing it. Giant Robot, which was founded in 1994 as an Asian pop-culture zine, has since expanded to a full-out magazine, an online store, and art galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Its NYC ComicCon booth was stocked with colorful toys, stuffed Uglydolls (a big hit), and back issues of Giant Robot magazine. But English insisted that Giant Robot was by no means out of place at the convention. “A lot of the artists that are in Giant Robot’s galleries do underground comics, but they’re also fine artists,” he explained. The irreverent online comic strips featuring the Uglydolls might not bear much resemblance to the action serials of the Justice League, but the influence is certainly there.
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Austin on the left wearing a paperrad shirt
The red circle Blown up – the line goes as far as you see. Miles long! This is the other direction. It went all the way down the street to the corner and then down a decline to the door on the bottom level. Although the lines look long, where were these people? The hall isn’t huge, it’s like 1/10 of the SD Comicon. There’s not a ton of booths you can comb through pretty quick, especially if you aren’t in the market for back issue comics (there’s a ton of these). If you don’t want manga, then that knocks out a lot more. Comicons are usually about comics and what’s around it, but NY is still in the dark ages. Comics reign. The toy thing isn’t really happening in NYC. Mori Chack was at the NY Comicon. He’s a good man. That’s Hayden Panettiere from Heroes. She looks nice in person, but had to sit next to the bathroom! See above the banner? The yellow tile is the entrance to the men’s toilets. It’s already bad to be near any toilet, but this is a Comicon toilet, so that means obese, even in NYC, big, stinky, junk food turds. There’s a bunch of stalls making this the worst seat in the house. Standing 40 feet away, the waft of crap was disgusting. Imagine her being right there next to the guys who laid the turds. You know it’s over when you see a box labeled this way. “Urban Vinyl” is over, and this box was part of Diamond Comics booth, which means, it’s much over. Are you part of this? Aren’t you embarrassed? Sir Kaws! Michelle meets Frank McLaughlinFrank is a funny guy. Read the wikipedia entry I linked above. He’s a true character, a comic book veteran, and can crank out great work. We visited him three times, and each time was a fun adventure. He draws the ladies quite well and enjoys looking at them too! Dirty doggg!
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Blown up - the line goes as far as you see. Miles long!
This is the other direction. It went all the way down the street to the corner and then down a decline to the door on the bottom level. Although the lines look long, where were these people? The hall isn't huge, it's like 1/10 of the SD Comicon. There's not a ton of booths you can comb through pretty quick, especially if you...