Hi, all.
August 30 - 31: I will be a guest at Long Beach Comic Con.
Author photo by Pat Loika; Promotional image by Lan Pitts.
This is the Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day Weekend 2025, so if you’re in the Los Angeles area and looking for an indoor air conditioned activity while also having access to (I assume) a long beach of some kind, I fully insist that you buy tickets now and come meet me there! We will take a selfie together. I will sign comics you own that I have scripted and I will attempt to sell you additional ones. I will appear on PANELS on the topics of television and comic book writing and, I’m being told, Spider-Man for some reason. A spectacular time will be had by all.
If I’m wrong about Long Beach having a long beach, I know for a fact that they have hotel pools, because that’s how I distracted my toddler when we fled our house during the fires. We were very lucky to come home to a safe home in a neighborhood that was not directly affected, but it will be nice to generate some positive memories of Long Beach that don’t put me in the headspace of Wile E. Coyote running off the cliff and not yet looking down. Memories featuring you!
Wait, weren’t you just at a different Comic-Con?
I was in fact — San Diego Comic-Con 2025. Here’s how it went down.*
Note: I was not able to figure out how to add photo captions in gallery mode, so you should probably just use context clues or make up a little story about me entirely.
I will, however, clarify that the three people speaking on panel are my buddies Patrick Reed, Rachel Pinnelas, and Andrew Farago on a panel discussing comics-focused museum exhibits, like the Jack Kirby one at the Skirball Center right now — and that the guy in the big boots is the nine-foot-tall Galactus cosplayer you may have seen on social media, putting on his costume with the help of some assistants.
*Okay, commence slideshow.
Surely that’s all of them.
Most years, you’d be right, because I do not attend a lot of comic book conventions, or events outside the home in general, however, I will also be in attendance at New York Comic-Con 2025 — not at a table, just as a “sheep in the big city” as they say. So if you’re making it there, and there’s something you need signed, or some blood debt we need to settle, let me know here and we’ll work out the details.
“That’s probably enough for now.”