SDCC San Diego Comic Con 2011 : Sold Out

[KnightAsylum]

The new generation of folks like to B**CH about everything so take it with a grain of salt!

It's very cool and well worth it in my opinion. I wish the complainers would stay home but unfortunately they all come back to complaint for another year! :lol

FB

I agree on all counts.


Love the show, been going non-stop for over a decade (although it is for work for me as well) looking forward to this year and nervous both at the same time.
This will be my first year since 1999 that I am not at the show with Top Cow. I was hired on by Radical Publishing to consult, set-up and run their booth at the show. A great compliment that they were interested in buying me out to do the show but it is not as second nature as running the TC booth and I feel more pressure to make sure they get all their moneys worth.
Regardless of that fact it is my favorite show and I look forward to it every year, I recommend it to everyone to try at least once because it is an experiance like no other convention on the planet.:thumbsup

 

[Eveningarwen]

well im excited to go again! We got tickets to W00tstock as well on thursday night so I'm excited for that too. Eeeeep.....so many costumes to make.

 

[Jet Beetle]

What's WOOstock? Anyone here every go to APE?

 

[Larry Young]

I went to the first ten APEs or so until they swapped it from February to October and started holding it on my birthday weekend.

 

[Jet Beetle]

I went to the first ten APEs or so until they swapped it from February to October and started holding it on my birthday weekend.

i know you see it more from the inside Larry, but how is it? I get an invite now and then to go but have never done it.

 

[Larry Young]

If San Diego is Nerd Prom, APE is sort of a live-action etsy. It's a two-day show, but if you're visiting, I'd fly up on a Friday, see some night-sights and get acclimated, do the show on Saturday and the city on Sunday before going home. You can do it all in a day.

It's very low-key and concentrates more on indy, alternative, and handmade pieces. Honestly, there are just as many tables with handmade stuffed animals, Suicide-type Girls with fleece hats in the shape of kitties, and bead jewelry as there is comic books.

Along with the usual Bay Area suspects, though, are folks like the Pixar lads who do comics on the side, and indy houses like Top Shelf and Active Images who stand taller in the smaller venue than the tidal wave of San Diego.

Me, I love APE, because there's nothing like doing a show all day and then sleeping in your own bed at night, but we really don't miss it because 1. as I said, it's usually on my birthday, and 2. it pulls its audience mostly from the Bay Area and if you are interested in our stuff you've probably already got it already.

I've saved the best for last, though, if you enjoy adult beverages: the show has a liquor permit and while expensive, most people are carrying beers while they peruse the wares.

 

[Jet Beetle]

the show has a liquor permit and while expensive, most people are carrying beers while they peruse the wares.

I'm there.

 

[Larry Young]

Thank you for not pull-quoting "probably already got it already." My bad.

 

[BrundelFly]

You know....going Just isnt any fun anymore.

Way too crowded.

 

[Eveningarwen]

What's WOOstock? Anyone here every go to APE?

This is W00tstock:

w00tstock - A Night of Geek and Music

I've never been but some friends are going and said they had a blast and I read it's one of the things to do at night after comic con. I like Adam Savage and Whil Wheaton so I can't imagine that I won't like it!

 

[micdavis]

Cons are what you make of them.

I know that sounds simplistic, but hey, why over think it.

It's amazing how much you see the same complainers, every year. I don't get that.

 

[KorrickUSCM]

To anyone going this year, would you be willing to buy a ticket for me for 2012? I'd be willing to pay you a bit extra!

*Edit* Pretty please? With sugar on top?

 

[EvilRocketeer]

Single day tickets goes back on sale at 10am Pacific today!