{"id":7074,"date":"2023-07-23T14:46:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T21:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2023-07-27T05:56:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T12:56:54","slug":"success-and-failure-at-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/success-and-failure-at-comic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Success and Failure at Comic-Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my one day at Comic-Con this year proved to be a success on most fronts, particularly when it ended with me and Benjamin L. Clark winning the Eisner Award in the category Best Comics-Related Book for our book <em><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_8351910\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1681888602\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=a3494d3ba08f714b3cee3b6311703de9&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects\" data-amzn-link-id=\"a3494d3ba08f714b3cee3b6311703de9\">Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_8351910\" 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=a3494d3ba08f714b3cee3b6311703de9&amp;_cb=1690462555944\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>. We each got to take home a nice statue and a warm feeling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7075\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WieldingEisners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7075 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WieldingEisners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WieldingEisners.jpg 500w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WieldingEisners-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin L. Clark (right) and me (less right) wield our trophies (photo courtesy Lex Fajardo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Signing the book at the Peanuts booth went well. My non-Peanuts-related panel went well. So what was the failure of the day? I didn&#8217;t manage to secure a copy of the Comic-Con-exclusive <em>Beagle Scouts&#8217; Life<\/em>! Peanuts Worldwide was selling items both in the booth in the convention and a pop-up shop outside of the convention, but they had limited stock of each item for each day. I didn&#8217;t have time to stand in the often-an-hour-long line to get things, and by the time I was there for the signing and hoping to ask if one could be gotten, they were sold out for the day!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7076\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PeanutsPopUp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7076\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PeanutsPopUp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PeanutsPopUp.jpg 500w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PeanutsPopUp-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PeanutsPopUp-260x160.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Folks lined up to enter the Peanuts pop-up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my one day at Comic-Con this year proved to be a success on most fronts, particularly when it ended with me and Benjamin L. Clark winning the Eisner Award in the category Best Comics-Related Book for our book Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator &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-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-con"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","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=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}