San Diego, here I come!

And Superphone IS letting me post! Huzzah!

There's nothing quite like getting political calls when your plan was to go to bed at 4:30 p.m. so's to get up at 11 to begin packing - but I can sleep on the plane, right?

Grim preparation for the show: writing the "In Memoriam" material for Friday's Eisner Awards. I'm paying tribute to 19 people we've lost in the last year. Hey, people, how about staying alive between this year's show and next? Please?