Well, folks, here we are: the end of Comic-Con 2012. The booths are being disassembled, the nerds are flocking to the exits, booth-babe pictures are being stored on hard-drives, and poster-tubes packed with sweet, sweet limited-paper goodness are being carried triumphantly from the San Diego Convention Center. What screenprints were we able to score before fleeing the SDCC for the safety of the San Diego airport? Oh, nothing special: just a few more awesome Mike Mitchell pieces from Mondo’s ongoing Adventure Time series and a Jay Shaw print autographed by none other than Guillermo del Toro.
Read all about ‘em after the jump, my fellow poster-geeks.
Comic-Con 2012 has been an absolute beating, a brutal pilgrimage to the dark heart of geekery that left many of us under-rested, overspent, and in desperate need of about fifteen back-to-back showers (the rumors you’ve heard about “the Comic-Con smell” are not to be disbelieved). On the upside, though, Comic-Con 2012 allowed me to meet and spent quality time with artists like Olly Moss, Daniel Danger, Jock, Mark Englert—all of whom are total sweethearts-- and I was also able to get my grubby mitts on a number of limited-edition screenprints that would’ve cost me hundreds on the secondary market had I not been here to collect them myself. In the end, the lack of sleep and permanently-damaged bank account are more than worth it.
While the last day of Comic-Con is—traditionally—a bit more of a low-key affair than the days that preceded it, it turned out that ...
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