{"id":5092,"date":"2018-06-03T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2018-06-03T07:59:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T14:59:05","slug":"2018-san-diego-comic-con-for-aaugh-blog-followers-preview-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/2018-san-diego-comic-con-for-aaugh-blog-followers-preview-post-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 San Diego Comic Con for AAUGH blog followers, preview post 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comic-Con International: San Diego (or, as everyone calls it, just San Diego Comic Con) is still more than a month away, with the preview night coming July 18 and then four full days of convention excess to follow. But for those who are planning to go (and if you&#8217;re not already planning, too late, the tickets sold out months ago), I thought I could drop a couple tidbits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CelebratingSnoopy-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4566\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CelebratingSnoopy-1-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CelebratingSnoopy-1-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CelebratingSnoopy-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One is that Peanuts is once again represented among the Eisner Award nominations. This time it&#8217;s for\u00a0<strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_9829027\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Celebrating-Snoopy-Charles-M-Schulz\/dp\/1449487882\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=9c1ebecda4139328521821874d606739&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"Celebrating Snoopy\" data-amzn-link-id=\"9c1ebecda4139328521821874d606739\">Celebrating Snoopy<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_9829027\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=9c1ebecda4139328521821874d606739&amp;_cb=1528037634560\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong>, the oversized hardcover with decades of Snoopy strips. The book garnered noms in two categories:\u00a0Best Archival Collection\/Project\u2014Strips and Best Publication Design. It is not a shoo-in in either category, as the comics industry has really upped its game over the years in terms of strip collections and the design of its higher-end items. Also among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/awards\/2018-eisner-awards-nominations\">nominees for the Eisner Award<\/a> (which is the main award given at the convention, and is probably the most prestigious award in American comics) is the magazine\u00a0<em>Hogan&#8217;s Alley<\/em>, which I&#8217;ve been writing for for decades now, and has run many a fine Peanuts article from me and from others.<\/p>\n<p>The other is that if you&#8217;re looking for a chance to say &#8220;hi&#8221; to me, I am currently slated to be there on Thursday and Friday and will be on a couple of panels, so you can find me there. More details as the event approaches&#8230; and I expect I&#8217;ll be posting details on any Peanuts panels, exclusive Peanuts items for sale there, and so forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic-Con International: San Diego (or, as everyone calls it, just San Diego Comic Con) is still more than a month away, with the preview night coming July 18 and then four full days of convention excess to follow. But for those who are planning to go (and if you&#8217;re not &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-con"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}