immonen illustrations

A company specializing in lofty personalized logo distribution was pumping these little fellers out from a doohickey parked in the loading dock of the Marriott. They were cute and expressive, as long as the wind was light. One got sliced apart landing in a palm tree, and the gathered crowd cringed audibly. Poor little Soapy.

I just plowed through Tom Spurgeon’s final con report– as usual, well-thought-out and un-sensationalist and comics-centric, unlike some other site reports. I won’t pretend to have an overarching opinion on the show, or even on Comic-Con in general, or the state of conventions, or that of the industry; basically I absolve myself from all blame. But I happen to be reading James Burke’s The Pinball Effect, in which he describes Alexander Von Humboldt’s theory of vegetation as society:

“The organisms that [live and multiply] best are those that adapt best to the environment, using that adaptability to expand their territory. When these expansionists meet other organisms, they survive by simply destroying them or by reducing their take of available food. The losers then die, or become slave organisms.”

Metaphor? Read it as you will. it would be disingenuous of me to say that “Hollywood” did not come up in conversation during the weekend, but I’m confident in saying that, for us at least, the next year is still going to be comics work. Someone has to do it.

Posted by Stuart on Thursday, July 29th, 2010 and is filed under events, industry, personal, photography, travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.