{"id":276,"date":"2009-03-04T02:22:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2011-06-30T00:24:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T08:24:15","slug":"wondercon-2009-and-kinokuniya-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/wondercon-2009-and-kinokuniya-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"WonderCon 2009 and Kinokuniya San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend WonderCon 2009<\/a><\/strong> and after that I took a quick trip to the Kinokuniya Store<\/a><\/strong> in San Francisco, CA.<\/p>\n

Saturday was practically a 12hr day for me, from getting up at 7am to getting back home at 7pm, and a lot of fun and discovery in between.<\/p>\n

I purchased a ticket in advance, so that saved me from standing in one of two lines inside of the Moscone Center. There was however a very long line outside that wrapped around the block on the way in. Good thing it wasn’t raining at that time.<\/p>\n

What was it like? it was great, initially I didn’t see great costumes but as the day progressed I got to see some really cool stuff, like this transformer below.<\/p>\n

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From SFRichardT<\/a> @ Flickr.<\/p>\n

Another cool thing to watch was our good old friend R2D2<\/strong> (a couple of droids actually) yeah they attract the attention of everybody old and young.<\/p>\n

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From veggierebel<\/a> @ Flickr<\/p>\n

The following site contains more info about these droids, www.artoo-detoo.net<\/a> – now there is another way to be creative.<\/p>\n

Mark Hamill<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From bonniegrrl<\/a> @ Flickr<\/p>\n

Carrie Fisher<\/strong>
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However I didn’t get a chance to see Sergio Aragon\u00e9s<\/strong>, when I visited his booth he was not there. I recall I purchased a couple issues of the comic GROO (which I found yesterday along with my old incomplete collection of Thor – from 1984 – amazing that so many years have passed and I still have them)<\/p>\n

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As you can see this was one busy day! I also had a chance to attend a few panels \/ presentations and visit Enrico and his\u00a0 friends (in two separate booths).<\/p>\n

Below is a copy of Mia<\/a><\/strong> by Enrico and a copy of Rose and Isabel<\/a><\/strong> comic by Ted Mathot – read both comics non-stop in one sitting, and now I want to know what happens next.<\/p>\n

I have been following Ted’s blog for a while and just recently started to read some of his old posts. There is quite a lot of information there to learn from\u00a0 (thank you for taking the time to share).<\/p>\n

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Lastly, I managed to take a quick trip to the Kinokuniya<\/strong> store in San Francisco, with the only mission of finding those pencils (I was also out of time, so it had to be a quick visit).<\/p>\n

I found both brands I was looking for but for the Tombow Mono 100<\/strong>, you have to purchase the whole box and they didn’t have the grade I wanted,\u00a0 so I just purchased (Mitsubishi Hi-uni<\/strong>) pencils, two for my wife and two for me… to try them out (2B and 5B).<\/p>\n

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That was one busy Saturday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend WonderCon 2009 and after that I took a quick trip to the Kinokuniya Store in San Francisco, CA. Saturday was practically a 12hr day for me, from getting up at 7am to getting back home at 7pm, and a lot of fun and discovery in between. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,173],"tags":[185,181,184,187,182,183,188,29,186,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}