Comic Con San Diego 2014

July 23rd - 28th. I went to the San Diego Comic Con mainly to be present at the screening of  'Over the Moon', a short film I wrote featuring one of my comic book characters. The 7 minute live-action film was co-written with Timothy Kidd, directed by James Cunningham and should be online around November after it's done it's festival run. Here's a selection of photos from the trip...

Meltdown Comics on Sunset Blvd.

 Inside Meltdown, looking at their wall of original artwork...

And there's the art for 'Jessica Teaches the Tailor'...

 Meltdown's cabinet of Dan Clowes merchandise...

At collector Glenn Brays house looking at some original pages from the early MAD comics.

Art by L.J Jordaan

Art by Harvey Kurtzma

Union Station, Los Angeles about 6am waiting for the train to San Diego

My new buddy Donkey Kong.

Comic Con main floor... so many people!

A harem of Princess Leias.

Some rare unpublished Basil Wolverton original artwork

Outside the Hollywood Historic Hotel on Melrose Ave.

Nice hotel but in the middle of nowhere... 

Luxury Rooms

View from my hotel window...

Kingsize room, non-smoking...

The hired car, a white Chevrolet Malibu...

Heading to the convention center in San Diego.

...some people think it's not good for the soul.

 Original Kurtzman artwork for sale.

I think the asking price was in the $50,000 range

Los Angeles - Final Photo Post

The Hollywood sign from the Griffith Observatory, the polluted air helps filter any good lighting out of photographing anything at a distance.

I thought it was cool to see the house where they filmed Six Feet Under.


Pretty grumpy that we arrived just a little too late to eat at Dr.Hogly Wogly's BBQ resturant. If there's a better named resturant anywhere in the world I've never heard it.

A "siesta" in the shaded doorway of Klasky - Csupo, a famous animation studio that made Rugrats and Duckman

The incredibly cool Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax, part owned by cartoonist Sammy Harkham.

Another favourite tourist destination, the La Brea Tar Pits.

Los Angeles - Squeeze the Lemon

LA has been lot's of fun for the most part, lot's of sight seeing and shopping. Above is me driving the Batmobile at the Skirball (a Jewish arts and cultural center), they had a great exhibition about the Golden Age of comic books on, lot's of original artwork on display.
"Squeeze the lemon" means, while driving, to just make it through a yellow light before it turns red... I also got my first ever traffic ticket here.