THE CRAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN 2025 IS HERE!!!

JUNE!!!  Sweet, glorious and insanely busy JUNE!!!  We have made it to summer CRAZIES!!!  And you know what that means: BBQ's!  The beach!  Theme parks!  The San Diego County Fair!  And, of course, COMIC CON!!!  It's been a long time coming, but we are finally a mere weeks away from the biggest pop culture event of the summer!  But first, there's another con-related tradition that must be tended to...

For close to (WOW!!!) a decade now, I have contributed art to the Team Cul De Sac Art Auction held every year at HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC.  All proceeds go towards research in finding a cure for Parkinson's Disease, a terrible illness that has claimed many lives, including that of cartoonist Richard Thompson, the creator of Cul De Sac.  Below are the pieces I have sent in for the auction...

HERMIT CRAB HUNT: Alice and Mr. Danders have gone out hunting for usurping hermit crabs on the remains of the Bliss Haven Preschool.  Pen and ink mixed media piece illustrated on 9 x 12in. vellum paper and colored in Olo Markers and PrismaColor Colored Pencils. 

MIKE & MINDY: FRIENDSHIP IS CHAOS!!!: Mike and Mindy are back and taking their cartoony mayhem to unheard of levels!  Second grade just can't contain these loony tykes!  Pen and ink mixed media piece illustrated on 9 x 12in. vellum paper and colored in Olo Markers and PrismaColor Colored Pencils.

If you're going to be in the Charlotte area on the night of June 20, please consider attending the auction.  In addition to being a rare chance to own some CRAZY original art, it's also for a very noble cause.  Parkinson's isn't picky.  Anybody can get it and now, more than ever, researchers need funding to find a cure to this horrible disease.  So please make the rounds and drop some bids.  Trust me, there's gonna be some incredible artwork up for grabs.  Think of it as a duel prize: You get some cool art on your wall while Parkinson's Disease gets a swift kick in the ass!  It's a win/win scenario!

Okay, now is the moment you've all been waiting for!  It's been a long ten months, but we are FINALLY back!  I know you're all eager to get to it, and believe me, so am I!  We're setting the Wayback Machine all the way back to July of 2014!  Cap up those Code Red Mountain Dews and hang on to your Batman Underoos!  The CRAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN 2025 IS ON!!! 

A very rare behind the scenes shot of Hall G looking towards Hall F and the wall that separates it from Hall E.  Takes a LOT of effort from many teams to pull this show off in a matter of days!

A truly awesome moment for me as I got into Hall H and saw the Warner Bros Panel.  Definitely one of my favorite SDCC moments!

The Riddler and Hair Guy pose for an action shot in the aisles!

The old Fox booth!  It's become my new summer home really come load-in week, but man am I glad they don't do the TV tower anymore.  That thing was such a pain in the ass to build!

Much has been said about the DCEU, and continues to be said actually.  Frankly, it was always gonna be an uphill battle for that franchise, but I gotta say, seeing all the neckbeards lose their minds when they showed the first footage from Dawn Of Justice at the WB panel is a memory I'll always cherish!  These same guys mockingly calling out "Batfleck" online suddenly couldn't be any nicer.  It clearly didn't last, but it was a nice moment at least!

Game... Blouses...

Wonder Woman and Elvira...  The team-up we didn't know we needed!

The 2014 Godzilla movie should've been titled Godzilla: Blue Balls.  It was nothing more than a tease!

Aw, the Xbox Lounge.  If any one offsite ever deserved to come back...

Adult Swim used to have a large presence in the exhibit hall, but 2014 would be the last hurrah before setting up a much grander stage in the lawn behind the Convention Center.

The hidden Pixels Arcade!  The movie totally blew, but at least the offsite was cool!

Did this even get released?

From 2012-2014, WB hosted the offsite on the Hilton Lawn.  These days, FX holds the lease, but Warner's did some cool things too in their time.

The Nintendo Lounge!  Back when it was still fun!

He's not finished...

The legendary Meatwad Dome!  Back before Adult Swim got their own carnival, they'd just shack up over at the Petco Park Interactive Zone!  The less refined era of the Zone was a pretty fun one!

Nickelodeon Legend!

Don't even remember what this was from, but NBC hyped it up big!

And finally, what better way to bring an end to my SDCC 2014 posts than with some Blankman cosplay?

And that was SDCC 2014!  It doesn't feel like it was 11 years ago, but it really was!  So much of it is a blur now, but I do remember it being a fun week and collecting TONS of swag!  Actually, that every year!  It was my SDCC in my 30's though, so that counts for something!

And that's all she wrote for opening week, but fear not!  We got LOTS to go with the CRAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN in the coming months, so be sure to come back next week and check it out!  In the meantime, take care, stay safe and I'll catch y'all later!