Comic-Con turns 40 years young....
Monday, July 13, 2009 at 5:38PM tagged Comic Con, Gen Con, d&d, high school in Cons, D&D, Dragon*Con, Gen Con Email Article Print Article 
One of the heavyweights of the con scene rolls into San Diego again: Comic-Con. And it's an older granddaddy than I originally thought. The con celebrates 40 years this year. Funny-- D&D celebrates its 35th this year (not to mention 30 years since I first learned D&D, and 25 since I graduated from high school. Yikes! But that is another story...
Comic-Con is a fanboy and fangirl paradise, with guests ranging from Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Tim Burton, Robert Zemeckis, Ray Bradbury, Seth Green, Stan Freberg, June Foray (voice of Rocky in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), a screening of "Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog" (which I experienced at Dragon*Con last year -- very silly and fun) ... more highlights here.
Sigh... wish I was going. But I can't. I will be headed to Gen Con in August. More on that later...
--- Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks