{"id":22,"date":"2014-08-04T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2014\/08\/04\/san-diego-comic-con-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:50:28","slug":"san-diego-comic-con-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2014\/08\/04\/san-diego-comic-con-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Comic Con 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JPtable.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JPtable.jpg?resize=300%2C400\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been a week since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/\">Comic Con<\/a> and my schedule still hasn\u2019t recovered yet. Still cranking on deadlines here, but I promised some words and pics from the event \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/johnpicacio\/sets\/72157645757844250\/\">here you go<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, SDCC International \u2014 this was my first time as a Special Guest, and I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019ve ever worked harder at a Comic Con. It was tremendous fun, and an honor to do so. My thanks to everyone who made it possible \u2014 Fae Desmond, Janet Goggins, Maryelizabeth Hart, Steve Lord, Katherine Morrison, Val Ontell, Tommy Goldbach, Robie Elrod, my con PA Olivia, and many more that I\u2019m sure I\u2019m forgetting.<\/p>\n<p>Spent a ton of time in the Special Guest area, visiting with fans and signing stacks of stuff. It was fun watching people get excited about what I\u2019m doing with Loteria, and that was a theme throughout the weekend. I did an amazing Kickstarter panel brilliantly hosted by Craig Engler, and shared with Jane Espenson, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Brad \u2018Cheeks\u2019 Bell. <a href=\"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2014\/07\/29\/i-won-a-2014-inkpot-award\/\">I even won an Inkpot Award.<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So many inspiring, insightful people, chats both driveby and extended \u2014 Pierce Watters, Todd &amp; Rita Lockwood, Cosmo Eisele, Dave Stevenson, Jason Felix, Donato Giancola, Stephen Martiniere, Chris Roberson, Allison Baker, Jennifer Heddle, Allen Spiegel, Charles Kochman, Ed Schlesinger, Colleen Lindsay, Diana Gill, Anne Groell, Anne Sowards, David Moench, Leigh Bardugo, Seanan Mcguire, Raya Golden, Joe Hill, Dave McKean, Dave Palumbo, Travis Lewis, Allen Williams, Carl Potts, Jimmy Palmiotti, Lee Whiteside, Sam Park, and again so many more that I\u2019m sure I\u2019m forgetting.<\/p>\n<p>It was a joyous time, and even though it\u2019s been 22 years since my first Comic Con, and I\u2019ve been a part of countless cons so far as a pro, there\u2019s still nothing quite like this event anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a week since Comic Con and my schedule still hasn\u2019t recovered yet. Still cranking on deadlines here, but I promised some words and pics from the event \u2014 here you go. Thank you, SDCC International \u2014 this was my first time as a Special Guest, and I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019ve ever worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[44,6,45,46],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-inkpot-award","tag-loteria","tag-san-diego-comic-con","tag-sdcc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JPtable.jpg?fit=768%2C1024","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}