{"id":155,"date":"2007-08-02T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/08\/san-diego\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T02:23:00","slug":"san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">And here&#8217;s a brief bit from San Diego. I made it home in one piece, a bit worse for wear. Friends Eric Reynolds and Tom Devlin did their best to council me with sage-like wisdom but Comicon beat me bloody. The best part was really just hanging out with friends&#8230;. Anyhow, here are some images.<\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/RrKS0XesMdI\/AAAAAAAAAFA\/T4n5GWfxUf4\/s1600-h\/IMG_2375.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/RrKS0XesMdI\/AAAAAAAAAFA\/T4n5GWfxUf4\/s320\/IMG_2375.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094295556863046098\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Tom tries to be funny. Weissman and Ryan oblige. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/RrKS0nesMeI\/AAAAAAAAAFI\/RSLyxf0FzjE\/s1600-h\/IMG_2373.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 235px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/RrKS0nesMeI\/AAAAAAAAAFI\/RSLyxf0FzjE\/s320\/IMG_2373.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094295561158013410\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>          <span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Special sidewise image! I accepted Ogden Whitney&#8217;s Hall of Fame <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">                award at the Eisner Award ceremony. And they let me keep it! Haw! <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">              As Johnny Ryan said, &#8220;what does it mean if the inductee is a better <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">                   cartoonist than the guy who the award is named for?&#8221; Good question,<br \/>                 Johnny! The Eisner Awards remain the best reason not to take comics<br \/>                      seriously as an art form (well, that and the Masters of American Comics<br \/>                      exhibition!). Tom  looks at it enviously after a furious night of losing to<br \/>                              Gumby, Sandman (I lost to Sandman, too!) and other stuff waaaaaay better<br \/>than the Moomins and  Tatsumi. Oh yes.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/RrKS1XesMgI\/AAAAAAAAAFY\/fyX8pQi0fQk\/s1600-h\/IMG_2384.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/RrKS1XesMgI\/AAAAAAAAAFY\/fyX8pQi0fQk\/s320\/IMG_2384.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094295574042915330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">            Matthew Thurber, Marc Bell and Jon Vermilyea go Bats.               <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here&#8217;s a brief bit from San Diego. I made it home in one piece, a bit worse for wear. Friends Eric Reynolds and Tom Devlin did their best to council me with sage-like wisdom but Comicon beat me bloody. The best part was really just hanging out with friends&#8230;. Anyhow, here are some images. Tom tries to be funny. Weissman and Ryan oblige. Special sidewise image! 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