THURSDAY, JULY 19TH
A bit of background: my dad, J. Michael Catron, is something of a comics historian. The reason I started going to CCI was to help him with an archive project he started in 1993, where he runs around the show with a camera to record what is often the final public appearance of golden/silver age comics pros. Most of those folks are long gone now, and most of Comic-Con is available on YouTube for free, but Dad’s fallen so deeply in love with archiving the Con that he won’t ever stop. This year he’s got 5 cameras that we are hauling around the convention center. At the beginning of this tale, he’s working out his schedule of what to shoot for the convention.
Me: since when do you care about what Robert Kirkman has to say?
Dad: I’m a historian. It’s not my call to say who is and is not worth preserving.
Me: Dude. You know that they’ve got cameras in there. You can safely drop it
Dad: grumblegrumblegrumble
Me: you were gonna get overwhelmed and drop it anyway quit complaining
Dad: grumblegrumble