Puppetry AND Cartooning

[Melonpool]

I just found my paperwork for next year. It looks like the con is being held July 20-23 (with set up/preview night being July 19).

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I will be booking a table as soon as the forms become available, so if anyone wants in on that let me know. I'm sure we could all figure out a way to keep the cost of accommodations down too.

I've still got to get through this fall before I can commit any money anywhere at this time. And I don't use credit cards, so I have to wait. Keep me informed, obviously, what you find out.

 

[Buck-Beaver]

Thanks for the info Steve! I'll email you privately about next year Foz.

 

[Melonpool]

I'm going to bump this up. Who's interested in attending San Diego Comic-Con this year? If I can get four people I'll try to get a panel for all of us. I think it's truly a niche industry. At worst, we can have another puppeteer dinner.

Steve

 

[Buck-Beaver]

I'm in!

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I'm game as long as finances are! HA HA! Should be okay to play along, though.

 

[Was Once Ernie]

I'll definitely be there. (I'm always there.)

Steve,

What kind of panel were you thinking of?



P.S. For those going, official Comic-Con hotel reservations open on Feb. 15 -- and they close out FAST!!

 

[Was Once Ernie]

Oh, one more thing... if we set up a dinner, I'm available Thursday or Friday night, but not Saturday. I have a Writers Guild function on Saturday night.

 

[Melonpool]

Thanks for reminding me about this.

I suppose I should come up with some kind of proposal about a panel, huh? The initial thought was that as cartoonists, a lot of us have expanded our work to include puppetry. How have we used our 2D skills to influence our 3D work, and vice versa?

I know that the Jim Henson's Doodles book opened my eyes to the fact that the two mediums are related, since Henson started out in the art end and sort of naturally progressed into puppetry. Before the publication of that book, I had no idea that he even dabbled in cartooning. At Comic-Con, I'm pretty much the only guy with puppets, but in meeting a lot of you, I see there are other puppeteer/cartoonists... and I meet more cartoonists that want to explore the medium as well.

Is there some sort of proposal in all this gobblety-gook we can use?

Steve

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It happens for me that way, too, that I'm usually the only puppet toter at a convention.

The initial thought was that as cartoonists, a lot of us have expanded our work to include puppetry. How have we used our 2D skills to influence our 3D work, and vice versa?

That's your proposal there.

I'm doing a panel on puppetry, but I'm focusing on TV Puppetry more than anything else, in March.