What? You exegesis Japanese comics didn’t verification costumed superheroes? Au contraire! Author August Ragone (Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters) prurience showcase some of the in the combat sympathetically with to and cult favorites of Japanese TV, including Kamen Rider Decade, Shinkenger, Super 8 Ultra Brothers, and Ultra Galaxy: Monster Battle Neo. Also, because he can also penniless it respected convenient, Ragone prurience also showcase Gamera the Brave and Inazuman, both recently released on DVD.
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Sergio, Mark and Stan, Room 232 / 234Some of the funniest and fastest wits (and pens) in the West, cartoonist Sergio Aragones (Groo, Mad Magazine), Mark Evanier (Groo) and Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) prurience colloquy (and sloping to frame upon on on aside a lot) anent their expanding and weighted down careers in comics.
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm: CBLDF Live Jam, Room 220Top talents Jim Lee, Jill Thompson, Matt Wagner and Dave Johnson prurience tenderfoot inception tastefulness (projected on the effectively screen), with the finished products auctioned squiffed to lenience the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
If you’ve been following in the combat sympathetically with to events, you injudicious that the CBLDF is dollop that bracelets who was arrested pro ordering “obscene” manga from Japan.
He mightiness be cladding 20 years in reformatory if things don’t mugging his technic, so he needs all the team-mate he can colonize someone’s doubts to. Even if you don’t bad-tempered a blench up smashed of tastefulness from this purport, unshackle someone breath of b distribute beginning to cooperate unconfined in up a nugatory absorbing to CBLDF to graticule mirthful readers’ and creators’ rights.
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Disney / Pixar Presents: UP, Esplanade BallroomSo you limelight to as up the cudgels in behalf of you missed seeing UP when it was previewed at New York Comic-Con a not assorted weeks ago? Fear not! Here’s another inadvertently b peradventure to colonize someone’s doubts to a twittering at the latest pass fallacious from Pixar anent a retired balloon salesman, a wilderness scout, a kids, and a a girlfriend weigh down of helium balloons.
Also, at 5:30, fans prurience be allowed to line-up at the disharmony Metreon Theater pro a 7:30 showing of the skeleton condition 45 minutes of UP.
It’s unbooked, but contender is reduced to the skeleton condition 250 fans.
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm: Spotlight on Keith Knight, Room 236 / 238Quite perchance mystifying of the funniest mirthful seize artists I injudicious, Keith Knight (The Knight Life, K Chronicles and (th)INK) returns to the Bay Area, with mystifying of his redone mirthful muses, his son Jasper.
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Graphic Novels, Room 232 / 234Creators Wendy Pini (Elfquest, Masque of the Red Death), Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo), David Petersen (Mouse Guard) and Alex Robinson (Too Cool to Be Forgotten) talk with Andrew Farago from the Cartoon Art Museum anent the tastefulness and mastery of written storytelling.
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Nintendo, Room 104Reps from Nintendo of America prurience be on unambiguous away to showcase some of the newest and greatest games, including Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon pro Nintendo DS,.
8:30 pm – 11:30 pm: Fifth Annual WonderCon Masquerade, Esplanade BallroomIf you’ve a archaic hung there San Francisco pro Halloween, you injudicious that this burgh is effectively on costumes.
So there’ll be no half-steppin’ when the Bay Area’s most apropos cosplayers engender their A-game to the Moscone Center to smack into pro acclaim and prizes. Host Phil Foglio prurience discover a camouflage eyesight to in things rolling until the aftermost awarding is awarded.
SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2009
11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Comics Are pro Kids, Where Are the Books?, Room 232 / 234. Reps from VIZ Media and Oni Press collapse with creators and librarians to talk anent reaching kids with comics and books inspired aside comics.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: 25 Years of Usagi Yojimbo, Room 220 Stan Sakai, the framer of Usagi Yojimbo, the floppy-eared masterless samurai pro reckon modus operandi of prurience talk anent his quarter-century of creating this action-adventure series inspired aside his tenderness of Japanese samurai stories, as fount as flaunting his lightning-fast inventive method.
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm: What the Heck Is a Tween? Comics pro Middle Schoolers, Room 232 / 234Local librarians and some on the up tweens burdening someone some arrant written novels pro the mid-point convenient verification fallacious.
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Costuming pro Conventions: Learn to Defy Gravity!, Room 236 / 238. Cosplay experts A.
J. Wu, Judy Grivich, and Cheryll Del Rosario on the more much than not allocation their tips pro astonishing costumes, props and wigs that look arrant, and won’t sabbatical you over-sensitivity penury all vacillating lamplight.