Where to begin?  My 45 minute flight from Columbus to Chicago was put into a holding pattern for six hours because of thunderstorms. We ran out of gas and had to land in Peoria, Illinois to refuel, just so we could go back into the holding pattern!  But all was well when I went straight from the airport to Dick’s Last Resort and the shouting, happy crew of Telltale Games greeted me with shots of Tequila. Let the Comic-Con begin!

Raina Telgemeir and Dave Roman at the Scholastic/Graphics party. It’s a terrible shot of me (Am I blinking or are those Tequila shots kicking in?) and Douglas Wolk from Publisher’s Weekly (who does not normally look crazed, and who gave me one of my first good mainstream reviews), but it’s such a good, sweet picture of Raina and Dave that I had to go with it.

Scott McCloud at the Scholastic bash. To the extreme left (and almost cut off) is Scott’s daughter Sky, and in the background you can see Amy Kim Ganter (Sorcerers & Secretaries) and Frank Cammuso (Max Hamm, Fairy Tale Detective).

Janna Morishima, one of the wonderful, hardworking editors at Scholastic.

Benedicte & Rodolphe Guenoden manning the Flight booth on Friday.

2:30 signing at the Diamond Comics booth. This picture was taken by Emily Morganti. Emily works on the Bone and Sam & Max downloadable games, and during the Con she's done a little blogging at the Telltale site.  There's even a picture of Telltale founder Dan Conners drinking from a Bone milk carton the morning they arrived in San Diego! 

Fone Bone and Thorn stopped by my signing at the Diamond booth!  The Fone Bone puppet was perfectly scaled and moved freakishly well.

The Thorn costume was accurate down to the finest detail:  the small pouch around Thorn’s neck even contained a river rock from the real Old Man’s Cave!  Regretfully, in the excitement, I didn’t write down their names, but if I see them again on Saturday, I’ll post them when I blog next! All in all, it was a fun day, I bought a few good books,including the massive slip cased edition of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls; and ended the evening at the Eisner Awards – - the highlight of which was Scott Kurtz's funny and touching acceptance speech for best digital comic. Okay, we're off and running!