See You At San Diego

An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture

See You At San Diego
Mathew Klickstein, Stan Sakai, Jeff Smith
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h203 x 254mm - 480pg
6 Sep 2022 US
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9781683966517
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See You At San Diego is the comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of the Comic-Con and fandom scene. This full-fledged oral history, bursting with intimate reflections, hilarious observations, and at times, heartbreaking, often thought-provoking stories, is about how the geek at last inherited the earth and the story of the transformation of mainstream American pop culture into comic book culture over the past century. Join some of the biggest names in fandom as they launch off at ludicrous speed into the spiraling galaxy of geek culture through the kaleidoscopic lens of the planet' s biggest pop culture gathering worldwide (clocked twice by Guinness!): the San Diego Comic-Con. With such special guests as: Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Kevin Smith, Bruce Campbell, Felicia Day, Scott Aukerman, Stan Sakai, Sergio Aragones, Trina Robbins, the Russo Bros. , Lloyd Kaufman, Tim Seeley, Kevin Eastman, and many others - along with 400+ photos and art - the book also features forewords by Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) and by Jeff Smith (Bone), plus an afterword by Wu-Tang Clan' s own uber-nerd mastermind RZA.
Finally! An unexpurgated history of Comic-Con and fandom that comes directly from the horse' s mouth - actually a whole herd of horses. The overall result is as pleasantly chaotic as the Con itself. What a relief!--Scott Shaw! (cartoonist; Comic-Con co-originator) Mathew Klickstein might be the geek guru of the 21st century. --Mark Mothersbaugh The rambunctious, delicious story of how the biggest pop culture event in history was born - and grew from nothing to everything. --Allen Salkin (journalist, Los Angeles Magazine; bestselling author, From Scratch: The Uncensored History of the Food Network) These wild and wooly origin stories of San Diego Comic-Con and fandom take us back to the thrilling days of yesteryear, before the crowds and lines, before Hall H and Hollywood celebrities, before the endless summer of superhero box office blockbusters, to the halcyon days of the early 1970s when San Diego Comic-Con was the ramshackle creation of first-generation fans, teenagers, and stoners. All of this makes for a colorful oral history, especially from the mouths of the people who lived it firsthand. --Rob Salkowitz (journalist, Forbes; author, Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture)
Mathew Klickstein is a prominent pop culture historian, having penned such books as: SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon' s Golden Age; Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons (w/ original series writer Mike Reiss); and Selling Nostalgia: A Neurotic Novel. A longtime journalist, documentary filmmaker, television producer, playwright, podcaster, and novelist, Klickstein also recently dipped his toe in the comic book creation realm with his series You Are Obsolete. His six-part audio documentary Comic-Con Begins, in partnership with SiriusXM/Stitcher, is available on all audio platforms (www. MathewKlickstein. com) and now expanded in a visually-explosive book form as See You At San Diego (2022). He lives in Dayton, OH. Stan Sakai is a Japanese-born American artist and comic book creator. His creation, Usagi Yojimbo, first appeared in 1984. Usagi has been on television as a guest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as toys, on clothing, in comics, and in a series of trade paperback collections. He is a multiple Eisner-Award-winning cartoonist and the recipient of numerous national awards including an American Library Association Award and a Cultural Ambassador Award from the Japanese American National Museum. In 2020, Sakai was inducted into the Eisner Award Hall of Fame. He currently is an executive producer on the Netflix original CGI animated series Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, which is based on Usagi Yojimbo. He lives in Pasadena, CA. Jeff Smith is an American artist and the award-winning creator of the bestselling comic books Bone and RASL. For his work on Bone, Smith has received numerous awards, among them ten Eisner Awards and eleven Harvey Awards. In 1995 and 1996, he won the National Cartoonists Society' s award for Comic Books. Smith helped found the annual Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival, which debuted in 2015, and he serves as its artistic director. He lives in Columbus, OH. RZA (aka Robert Fitzgerald Diggs) is one of the foremost bellwethers of modern hip-hop, having led and produced for the pioneering collective Wu-Tang Clan. The Grammy, BAFTA, and Emmy nominated artist has also composed soundtracks for such films as Quentin Tarantino' s Kill Bill and Jim Jarmusch' s Ghost Dog. He is the writer/director of the 2012 film The Man with the Iron Fists, co-written by Eli Roth, and starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu. His latest book is Bobby Digital and the Pit of Snakes (2022).
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781683966517
Published: 6 Sep 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 254mm
Pages: 480

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