Next week, I’m off to San Diego for Comic-Con International. I’ve been going to San Diego Comic-Con on and off since the mid-’90s, when Jim Lee used to bring me out to demo the games I helped design with WildStorm (his part of Image Comics at the time). It’s something like quintupled in size since then, but I still always enjoy it when I can make it. Sure, it’s massive, overcrowded, and crazy, but it’s also packed with people geeking out about all sorts of wonderful things that I love too.
This year, Candlewick Press is bringing me out again to help promote my Dungeons & Dragons Endless Quest books. My public schedule includes:
Thursday, July 18
- 1:30 PM: Care and Nurturing of Someone Else’s Universe. (Horton Grand Theatre) What are the responsibilities and opportunities writers embrace when writing about iconic characters in universes created by someone else, whether an individual or a corporation? Talk comics, cartoons, games, and television universes with F. C. Yee (Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi), Matt Forbeck(Dungeons & Dragons: Escape the Underdark: An Endless Quest Book), Brenna Yovanoff (Stranger Things: Runaway Max), Adam Christopher (Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town), Kiersten White(Slayer), and Gary Phillips (Batman: The Killing Joke), and Fictitious podcast host, Adron Buske.
- 3 PM: Post-panel autographing session in the Sails Pavilion, AA09.
Friday, July 19
- 2 PM: International Association of Media Tie-In Writers: Scribe Awards. (Room 32AB) Jonathan Maberry (X-Files) hosts this year’s Scribe Awards for excellence in tie-in writing, including honoring this year’s Grandmaster Award “Faust” winner, Nancy Holder. Other panelists include Matt Forbeck (The Marvel Encyclopedia, Halo: Bad Blood), Michael Kogge (The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel), Chris Ryall (comic book writer, publisher at IDW), Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Mike Hammer), Christie Golden (Star Wars, World of Warcraft), and David Boop (Predator, Veronica Mars).
- 3:30 PM: Post-panel autographing session in the Sails Pavilion, AA04.
Saturday, July 20
- 11:30 AM: Signing at the Candlewick Press booth (#5532). We should have copies of Dungeons & Dragons Endless Quest: To Catch a Thief available for my illegible scribbling.
I’ll also be wandering around the show with a couple of my kids, catching up with friends, and generally goggling at all the cool stuff, which should make for a wonderful week. Hope to see you there!
