The 77,000 people under one roof at NY Comic Con last week formed a human petri dish to challenge even the strongest immune system, especially for me, since I was gladhanding all over the showroom floor. I had hand sanitizer with me (like any new parent), but I didn’t want to go all Howard Hughes […]
NY ComicCon, Day 3
Day three of ComicCon was kids day, and generally more relaxed, though still a zoo by any sane person’s standards. I was nursing something of a hangover after going to the Del Rey open bar party Saturday night, but I had an appointment to tape a radio interview at 11:30, so I hauled myself out […]
NY ComicCon, Day 2
If the first day of ComicCon was surreal, the second was an acid trip down a chocolate river on a marshmallow boat with gumdrop mushrooms growing along the shore. Andy Warhol once said that everyone would get fifteen minutes of fame, and if this was mine, it was about a thousand times more than I […]
NY ComicCon Day 1
Apologies for the delay in posting about this incredible weekend, but the joy and the anxiety and the exhaustion set in and I needed a day to recuperate. The next few posts will also be picture-heavy, so I was up rather late last night resizing pictures for the web. Overall, it was an incredible weekend. […]
For Love of Dragons
I had just done an interview with Shawn Speakman at Suduvu when he posted his essay in Defense of George RR Martin and his ever-late novel, A Dance With Dragons. This is a topic I have thought often on, as Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series is an enormous inspiration to me, and so […]