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My Incredibly Optimistic NYCC Planner

Published Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:00:53 -0500

Last updated Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:40:09 -0500

This is not going to work. This never works. But this is my plan for the weekend. I will end up having to junk half my plans. That's just way it goes. But let's see…

Thursday.

Fly in with Paul Duffield to Newark. Probably share a cab. Take a meeting with a mysterious third party. 8pm Go to the CBLDF Party.

Friday.

Meet with friendly retailers at 8am.
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Ban 'em, Burn 'em, Steal 'em! A Fan's Guide to Graphic Novel Censorship – Room 1A15
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm MARVEL: Welcome to the Digital House of Ideas – Room 1A06
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Sneak off for the end of Spotlight On Geoff Johns – Room 1A08
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm MARVEL: Welcome To The X-Men – Room 1A08
Well with Peter David, Marjorie Liu and Rick Remender how can you not?
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Image Comics: The Writers – Room 1A14. Well I am one now, I suppose. Got my first cheque and everything. Though with Ron Marz joining Robert Kirkman, Nick Spencer and Steven T. Seagle, I should probably stay in the audience where he can't hit me.
5:45 pm – 6:45 pm T&A Panel Room 1A06. Tom Brevoort and Axel Alonso bring it large.
Sneak out for 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm DC Nation Room 1A08 with Dan Didio and Jim Lee
8pm Go to the Ape Entertainment party.

12.30pm – Go to Grant Morrison Documentary Screening and scream when I see my ugly mush.

Sadly missing: 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm Adapting Public Domain Texts Into Graphic Novels. 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm IDW – Sneak Peek at 2011. PENGUIN YA and Adult Authors Talk Monsters, Myths, and Mayhem in Literature 7pm-8pm

Saturday

10.30 am – Being interviewed for a documentary on Warren Ellis
11:00 am – 12:00 pm MTV Geek With Stan Lee
Announcing the MTV lineup of comic books.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Digital Comics & Distribution Room 1A23
With Ira Rubenstein, Jim Lee, & Micah Baldwin, David Steinberger. Yes, I think so…
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Comics, Hollywood – What Creators Need to Know
Sneaking out for: 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm The Image Comics Show Room 1A22
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Stan Lee @ Boom Room 1A24 With Mark Waid.
Catching the end of: 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm Jim Lee and ICONS: The DC Comics and Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee – say will this be the last new DC book with Wildstorm on the cover?
Catching the end of: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Comics, Graphic Novels, and Manga for Adults
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm MARVEL: Cup O Joe Room 1A08.
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Darwyn Cooke Spotlight Room 1A06
Sneak out for: 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm Political Cartoonists
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Yoshiki and Stan Lee Room 1A08
Sneaking out for: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – LGBT Comics, Creators, and Characters

7.30pm. Go to the MTV Geek Party

Sadly missing: Kirby Krackle Live 11:00 am – 12:00 pm. DC Universe – 12:15 pm – 1:15pm. Avengers Assemble – 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm. 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm Vertigo: On the Edge Room 1A06. 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm DCUO "Creating the Next Legend". 9.00 pm – 10.00 pm – Michael Uslan: The Dark Knight Phenomenon.

Sunday

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Avatar Comics And Bleeding Cool Room 1A21
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Comics the Image Comics Way Room 1A24.
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm How to Fail In Comic Books Room 1A23
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm Spotlight on the Romitas Room 1A08
3:45 pm – 4:45 pm DC Digital Room 1A14

Sadly missing: 10:45 am – 11:45 am DC Nation: Town Hall Meeting Room. 10:45 am – 11:45 am MARVEL: The Women of MARVEL. 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Writing Comics. 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm MARVEL: Next Big Thing Room 1A06. 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm DC Focus: J. Michael Straczynski. 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Ape Entertainment

Monday

Buy perfume for wife. Anyone fancy brunch in the Ginger Pig?

Fly home.

Tuesday land. Buy kids' love with ridiculous toys and wife's with ridiculously expensive perfume.