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See You at San Diego
- Author
- Mathew Klickstein
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 20 September 2022
- Run Time
- 19 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless intimate, hilarious, and often thought-provoking stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of today’s convention and fandom community.
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 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 Aragonés, Trina Robbins, the Russo Bros., Lloyd Kaufman, Tim Seeley, Kevin Eastman, and many others.
The audiobook also features forewords by Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) and Jeff Smith (Bone), plus an afterword by Wu-Tang Clan’s own uber-nerd mastermind RZA.
Critics Review
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“Epic.”
Los Angeles Magazine
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“A loving oral history.”
Chicago Tribune
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“A fantastic, exhaustive look at the rise of geek fandom and culture over the past century through the lens of San Diego Comic-Con.”
Boing Boing
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“An essential and defining resource of the forces that have transformed popular culture over the course of the past century.”
Fangoria
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“Put this on your bookshelf to thumb through to remind yourself of where fandom has been and where it could go from here.”
Multiversity Comics
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"The multitude of perspectives arguably gives you a much better overall feel for what it was really like than just plain cold hard facts could ever have done.”
Forces of Geek
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“Finally! An unexpurgated history of Comic-Con and fandom that comes directly from the horse’s mouth…as pleasantly chaotic as the con itself.”
Scott Shaw!, Comic-Con cofounder and cartoonist
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“This amazing book about the secret origins of the Comic-Con is a fascinating deep-dive into the first generation of pop cultural fandom! (Full disclosure: I’m in it too.)”
Kevin Smith, filmmaker, actor, comedian, and comic-book writer
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“These wild and wooly origin stories of San Diego Comic-Con and fandom take us back to the thrilling days of yesteryear…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 Sakowitz author of Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture
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Details
- Author
- Mathew Klickstein
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 19 hours
- Release Date
- 20 September 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200899890
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Graphic novel / Comic book: memoirs, true stories and non-fiction, Humour, History, History of art, Popular culture
Synopsis
A comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless intimate, hilarious, and often thought-provoking stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of today’s convention and fandom community.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 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 Aragonés, Trina Robbins, the Russo Bros., Lloyd Kaufman, Tim Seeley, Kevin Eastman, and many others.The audiobook also features forewords by Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) and Jeff Smith (Bone), plus an afterword by Wu-Tang Clan’s own uber-nerd mastermind RZA.
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