Just back from the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con, and what a trip it was.
The convention brought it’s usual flow of madness, from movie premiers to dressed up fans (pics coming) to visual extravaganzas. And yet the biggest highlight was the attention we got from Hollywood:
At the booth with me promoting [i]Finders Keepers [/i]this year was partner-in-crime Rich Henn, who is promoting his autobiographical comic Zoomies, and the comic-book supernatural thriller [i]Timespell[/i], we wrote toJust back from the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con, and what a trip it was.
The convention brought it’s usual flow of madness, from movie premiers to dressed up fans (pics coming) to visual extravaganzas. And yet the biggest highlight was the attention we got from Hollywood:
At the booth with me promoting [i]Finders Keepers [/i]this year was partner-in-crime Rich Henn, who is promoting his autobiographical comic Zoomies, and the comic-book supernatural thriller [i]Timespell[/i], we wrote together.
On the other side of the booth was a writer named James Owen. You might not recognize his name yet, but if all progresses as it seems, you will. Rich and I first met James about 10 years ago at a comic book convention in Ohio. He writes and illustrated a comic book called [i]Starchild[/i], which did fairly well in the comics world, but then he kinda went silent after that, at least as far we knew.
Well, turns out that he reinvented himself as a novelist, and has been working on a fantasy series of novels called [i]Here, There Be Dragons[/i]. He has already written three, and is writing the fourth. And they’re selling. If you like books from C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, then he’s right up your alley.
The truly big news is that the producer of the Harry Potter movies has signed James Owen, and said that his Dragons books are going to be the follow-up movie franchise to Harry Potter. Warner Brothers is supposed to start filming the first Dragons movie in October. So James could wind up being [i]that [/i]big. Not to mention that James, and his brother Jeremy, who works with James, are just truly good guys. You can check out James online at http://www.heretherebedragons.net/.
So little did Rich and I know, when the convention started, who we were palling around with. You bet your you-know-what we’re aware of it now!
Meanwhile, Rich and I got a little Hollywood love of our own. At least a half dozen Hollywood producers and talent agents expressed interest in our various projects, so we are definitely jazzed about that. Of course, saying they’re interested and them actually doing something might be two very different animals indeed, but we’ve got a bunch of serious leads, and we’ll be pursuing them like mad. So who knows? [i]Finders Keepers[/i] might be getting a big screen adaption of its own.
More from Comic-Con ’08 to come …
