IMAGINE-there’s no Comic Con!
(Sung to the tune of John Lennon’s “Imagine”)
Imagine there’s no Comic Con
Its easy if you try
No Hollywood around us
Only comics by and by.
Imagine all the fans
Talking only toons.
Imagine there’s no costumes
It isn’t hard to do
No toys or T-shirts
And no Playboy Bunnies, too
Imagine all the fans
Talking only toons
You may say I’m Little Nemo
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And they’ll be no Comic Con
Imagine no slabbed comics
I wonder if you can
No need for grading and Price Guides
A brotherhood of fans
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the toons
You may say I’m Little Nemo
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And they’ll be no Comic Con.
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— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
Thanks for this, Craig. A gathering of cartoon lovers without the media hype and Overstreet and Sony and the wrestlers and so on. That would be a lovely event. Count me in.
[...] Jacob Covey offers his impressions of last weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con, and refuses to divulge the name of the replacement for the Pickwick as the dive bar or choice. Unfortunately for Covey, Eric Reynolds has already spilled the beans about the Hong Kong Lounge. Related: Tom Spurgeon presents his after-convention notes, as does Steven Grant and Shaenon Garrity; Valerie Dorazio descends to the lower depths of fan culture to witness a gathering of Slave Leias; and Craig Yoe invites you to imagine there’s no Comic-Con… [...]
i think there might be a slight typo; did you mean “imagine there’s NO costumes”?
anyway, arf awesomeness all around.
yes, damian, thanks!