Here are a few shots taken by my partner, who plays Sound Technician at times, and at other times plays Producer - Patty Mooney. These are glimpses outside the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego Comic Con 2008. We dig the traffic dude's Elvis do.
By now I think you know that I am a Director of Photography and Videographer, and that I have covered the San Diego Comic Con for my broadcast clients for over a decade. Right now I am presenting this modest pictorial of photographs taken in and around the San Diego Comic Con by my partner, Patty Mooney, who is a sound technician and producer. As I mentioned before, not everything "Comic Con" is confined to the convention floor. There is a festival of happenings outside on the street. Anyone with a camera can have a total field day with the eye candy displayed during this convention, even if they never make it inside the big glass doors. And most people you encounter ABSOLUTELY LOVE having their photo taken.
When it comes to San Diego Comic Con, which has been going strong for the last 39 years - this year will be its 40th anniversary - there is as much happening outside the San Diego Convention Center as inside. Everybody and everything are all dressed up in fantastical costumery. Many Comic Con devotees spend the entire year gearing up for this wondrous weekend. Some embellish their get-ups for years. It's truly an honor and a privilege to be onsite during this convention; there's nothing else like it anywhere.
One of the moments that stands out for me at last year's San Diego Comic Con occurred right after a panel featuring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis from "Max Payne." Who sauntered into the hall but Wolverine himself, in his civilian clothes. The audience, and particularly the women, screamed and cheered, until he settled them down enough to announce that he had just gotten off a plane from Australia and that nothing could have kept him from coming to Comic Con to thank his fans. He said, "Without you, I wouldn't have a career. Without you, there would be no Wolverine." Again the hall broke out into screams and cheers. He strode across the stage a couple of times, and then he was gone, just like that. 
A view across the street from the San Diego Convention Center; San Diego Hard Rock Hotel on the right where the limo is parked
San Diego Comic Con Conventioneers crossing the street
San Diego Comic Con is kid- and family-friendly
Whoa, remember the Hot Dog Mobile?
Do not mess with this guy
Do not mess with the green guy either
A glimpse of the San Diego Comic Con convention floor; it's tight
Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connolly appeared on a panel for 'The Day the Earth Stood Still," 2008
These three handsome guys are all serving in the Marines and volunteered to be ushers at the various panels at Comic Con 
Sign posted outside the lavatories; unfortunately non-humans cannot read
Two Avators in the hallway
More fun and frolicking with photogs and avatars in the hallway
