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Stan Sakai, Comic-Con 2004
Stan Sakai
Comic-Con 2004
 
 
Welcome to my guide to the San Diego Comic-Con International. The SDCCI is "The largest convention devoted to the popular arts in the United States," and this is my site with (hopefully) helpful hints about the Con, as well as a totally incomplete record of what happened and who was there. 
 
 
Updates-May-2008
Thursday, 08 May 2008

I finally got to work and put up the rest of my pictures for 2007.  I also found the secret hiding place of my missing 2006 pictures, which was on my friend laptop I had borrowed.  At this point, I'm still trying to identify some of the pictures and add links as such (I need to take better notes), but at least now you can see them. 

Preview Night, 2006

Preview Night, 2007

Day 2, 2007 

Day 3, 2007

Day 4, 2007

And the all important, Masquerade, 2007, with over 200 pictures. 

 
Tremendous Hotel Reservation Fun - NOT!
Wednesday, 06 February 2008

 Con Housing is open , not that it will do you much good at this point.  Anything closer than a mile is gone.  And even now, four and a half hours later, TPHousing's server is still flaky as hell.

Lost another room to stupid serversYeah, that was a lot of fun Yell.  Still, I was able to get a room for the Con.  It's not the room I wanted, but it is the room that many people would kill for.  After about 50 minutes of clicking, I got a room at the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina.  Yes, right next to the Con.  I "lost" four rooms due to the poor state of the servers, though.  Click, wait, 

 Of course, as if the significant price increase the hotels hit us with wasn't enough,  the hotel tax rate went up from 10.5% to 12.5% on January first of this year.

  To be honest, this is about the same trouble I had last year, where once I got all the way to the "Clicked to confirm" button, only to have the server crash on me.  It really shouldn't be a surprise for Travel Planners to have such a response by now.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 06 February 2008 )
 
Comic Con Housing Blog
Thursday, 31 January 2008

The Comic Con started a hotel blog (RSS feed ) today.   Unfortunately, it's lacking in useful info.  Basically it says to be prepared to book a hotel through other channels.  It looks like it's going to be online/phone madness again, and most hotel space will be probably be gone within an hour.

 The one main piece of info that should be on the site, is the hotel costs, as well as shuttle info.  It's lack, and the lateness of the CCI 2008 Update #1, seems to indicate that it's going to be bad news. 

 In lieu of accurate pricing, one possibility would be to check last year's update (PDF download from Comic-Con.org).  You'll find last years prices near the end, though this years prices will almost certainly be more.

 

Last Updated ( Thursday, 31 January 2008 )
 
Sign up now for 2008
Friday, 10 August 2007

For 2007, we saw three out of the four days sell out completely.  Registration for 2008 is open now, so sign up early so you won't miss out!

It's only $50 for 4 days if you buy August 17th or earlier, $55 if you buy September 17th or earlier. If you wait until last minute, it'll go up to $75.

Last Updated ( Friday, 10 August 2007 )
 
New look
Sunday, 22 July 2007

Welcome to the new look of my website.  Due to computer upgrades, I could no longer keep my pages going the way I used to.  I finally found out about Content Management Systems and recently started upgrading the site to use Joomla.  Most of the old pages are still in the same place and still browsable, but will be (ever so) slowly moved to the Joomla.  Hopefully, I'll be able to keep this site up faster and easier...  Yeah, like that will happen Laughing.

 There is certain to still be some kinks in the system as I learn how to use Joomla, so please bear with me.   You should still be able to browse through the old site, though links there will break as I transfer stuff.

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 July 2007 )