Ramblings of a Fanboy: CONned
by Lee French
Comic conventions are a central part of my fanboy experience. I remember first reading all of the exciting announcements about artist appearances at the San Diego Comic Con in the pages of Wizard Magazine in the ’90s. Of course, I was a teenager then and I didn’t have the funds or the daring to fly to a city on the West Coast by myself. Now, I make it to at least two major cons a year and several smaller ones.
I attended my first San Diego Comic-Con in 2005. At the time, my older sister was living in Escondido, just north of San Diego, and rather than getting a hotel closer to the Convention Center, I saved some money by crashing on her couch. Then I spent some of that money on cab fare to get to and from the Con each of the four days—and, of course, swag.
SDCC floor crowd
