San Diego is Looming!

San Diego Comicon is next week! I find the show rather inspiring as I love the interactions with customers at the festival. Two years ago was my first time working the D+Q Booth, and all day long for four and half days straight people either come to tell you that they love your books, or honestly want to know more about your books. Being that D+Q is small potatoes compared to the big Hollywood exhibitors at SDCC, you would think we would be the festival organizer's last priority. But we're not, the San Diego team--Gary Sassaman and Sue Lord to name a few-- is great to work with. In fact, they thoroughly understand that comics are the mainstay of San Diego that they go out of their way to always have a great roster of special guests and dynamic programming. This year, we were thrilled to find out that they invited Yoshihiro Tatsumi to be a special guest all the way from Japan. He accepted the kind invitation, and will be making appearances all weekend long.

D+Q is in booth 1529. Here is our schedule, please stop by and say hi! D+Q will have our largest lineup ever of attending artists including Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Adrian Tomine, Kevin Huizenga, Anders Nilsen, Ron Rege Jr, Sammy Harkham, James Sturm, Dan Zettwoch and Martin Cendreda. We will have specials on most of our stock including our new books. Attending from D+Q are Marketing & Publicity Director Peggy Burns, Production Designer Tom Devlin, Studio Coordinator Jamie Quail and Production Coordinator Rebecca Rosen

Here is our signing and event panel:

THURSDAY, JULY 20
3:00-5:00 DAN ZETTWOCH & SAMMY HARKHAM
5:00-7:00 KEVIN HUIZENGA & ADRIAN TOMINE

FRIDAY, JULY 21
10:00-11:00 MARTIN CENDREDA & DAN ZETTWOCH SHOWCASE D+Q BOOK FOUR SIGNING
12:00-2:00 ADRIAN TOMINE & JAMES STURM
2:00-3:45 KEVIN HUIZENGA & SAMMY HARKHAM
2:30-3:30 GRAPHIC NOVEL PANEL w/ JAMES STURM & YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI
3:45-5:45: TATSUMI & TOMINE

SATURDAY, JULY 22
10:00-11:00 MARTIN CENDREDA & DAN ZETTWOCH SHOWCASE D+Q BOOK FOUR SIGNING
11:00-1:00 ADRIAN TOMINE
11:00-2:00 RON REGE JR
2:00-4:00 PM KEVIN HUIZENGA & ANDERS NILSEN
2:30-4:00 SPOTLIGHT ON YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI WITH ADRIAN TOMINE
4:00-5:00 SPOTLIGHT ON CCS Panel with JAMES STURM, TOM DEVLIN & KEVIN HUIZENGA
4:15-6:15: YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI & ADRIAN TOMINE

SUNDAY, JULY 23
12:00-2:00 YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI & ADRIAN TOMINE
2:00-4:00 SAMMY HARKHAM & ANDERS NILSEN & KEVIN HUIZENGA