For Immediate Release:
Experience the San Diego Comic-Con Through Twitter

July 21, 2008 - Boston, MA. With the 2008 San Diego International Comic-Con beginning this Wednesday and all tickets already being sold out, fans can get their on-site, up-to-the-minute minutiae from comic creator and scholar A. David Lewis through Twitter. Beginning Wednesday, July 23rd, Lewis plans to be sending 140-character updates or “twitters” throughout the entirety of the event, including random sightings, interesting offhand quotes, and hot from-the-floor news.

“I’m excited to provide an additional angle on the show,” says Lewis, a veteran of Comic-Cons past. “I love what all the news sites and magazines provide, especially with television crews now on the scene. But I’m hoping to capture that bizarre energy of things overheard and weird things seen as an attendee that usually falls through the cracks. Like, what are people chatting about at 2 a.m. in the morning, and why is that guy wearing a Slave Leia outfit while playing Magic: The Gathering?”

While news sites are welcome to monitor the updates and post them to their own site (so long as proper credit is given), even those not signed up for Twitter can read the postings free and under no obligation. All one need do is go to http://twitter.com/adlewis — and that’s it! If you wished to be alerted of these twitters as they come in, of course, you can subscribe to them, also free of charge, through the Twitter.com site itself.

Here’s the predictable part: In support of its hit series Lost, ABC seems to be staging another viral Summer campaign (which, y’know, is hard to call “viral” if it’s expected). A year or so back, it was the Hanso Foundation website, then the sailing of the Christiane I to find the fake wreckage of Oceanic 815. Now, it’s Octagon Global Recruiting delivered to fans in the same faux commercial delivery system toward the end of the season finale.

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It’s sold out. It’s booked up. It’s coming through. Comic-Con International: San Diego (aka the San Diego Comic-Con, or SDCC) is coming!!

And so, some comics pals are working it hard and working it good. For instance, Poscards editor Jason Rodriguez is talking all about it for DCist.com (where the DC stands for District of Columbia, as in  the nation’s capital, not Marvel’s distinguished competitions). He’s also Twittering about it at http://twitter.com/JayRodriguez, but I’m also Twittering about it at http://twitter.com/adlewis — so just ignore that first part.
In other news, wildman Saurav Mohapatra, for reasons that escape me, has declared July 25th official Benny Lava day at SDCC. I’m not entirely sure what that means, but I am very Caucasian, so I leave these things to the experts.

Incidentally, SDCC.com takes you to Supplier Dynasty China Club. Not the same thing.

The axis of the universe aligned, and I’m part of two (count ‘em, two) comic book podcasts this week somehow! Here’s the scoop:

While some of the good gentlemen and gentlewomen who pilot the “time-traveling jalopy-saucer” from which this broascast is supposedly beamed have not read such works as Watchmen or Sandman (I’m looking at you, Casey!), they do give comics a really fair shake on the show. I’ve had the pleasure of voicing some characters for SciFi Surplus’ spoof-commercials in the past, but this week I sounded off as myself on the topic of “Comics and Movies.”
John Mayo and Bob Bretall are ”two fans with over 30 years each of comics reading and collecting, and who buy and read over 100 titles each and every month.” Yet, despite all that, they turn in a right sharp podcast!     I kid, of course, but Comic Book Page is a great audio resource, not only because they focus on overlooked gems in each month’s monstrous Previews catalogue but also because they snag some great creator interviews. I don’t know if I belong in the “great” category, but you can hear me talking about my work with Danielle Corsetto on Villard’s Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened on last week’s installment.

Both shows can be downloaded for free each week (and sometimes more often!) from iTunes. Show ‘em your love for free stuff!