Comic Con International 2010: I Was There

So it’s over and it’s been over for a while and everyone and his overweight uncle with the tattered, too-small X-Men t-shirt has written about it to death.

And now it’s my turn.

Loved it. Had a great time. Saw a lot of old friends. Made a few new ones. Found a place that makes great nachos.

Yes, the emphasis on back issues has diminished and there’s a decreased emphasis on the newer stuff and Bud Plant’s booth is smaller, but none of that diminished my overall positive experience.

I picked up a couple of hard numbers while shopping. I finally snagged a softcover copy of the first The Walking Dead collection at the Image booth and it turned out to be the last one in stock for the con. I asked the guy at the booth about it and he said that they’d sold over 300 hardcovers of the first collection and sold out of all 700 copies of the softcover version since Preview Night. This was by Friday afternoon, with 2 1/2 more days to go. That’s what happens when good comic meets impending TV show.

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SNEAK PEAK: RAY BRADBURY, TIM HAMILTON & FAHRENHEIT 451

Tim Hamilton’s career in comics stretches back to the late 1980s when he worked on The Trouble With Girls with writer/creators Gerard Jones and Will Jacobs. He has since worked for Nickelodeon Magazine, MAD Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Dark Horse, and BOOM Studios. His adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island was published as a graphic novel by Puffin Graphics in 2005. His follow-up project is another beautifully rendered graphic novel, an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s iconic and always-contemporary book-burning classic, Fahrenheit 451. The 176-page full color book is scheduled for publication from Hill and Wang (an imprint of Macmillan) in July 2009. Here’s the official cover. Feel free to click over to his website, and see what else he’s posting over there.