All sorts of tasty sights are popping up around downtown San Diego before the start of Comic-Con 2023!
Today is Saturday. Check out some of the fun stuff I came across while walking around the San Diego Convention Center, through the Gaslamp and into East Village!
A funny hamburger with eyeballs promotes Good Burger 2 from Nickelodeon.The anime film Sand Land will have its world premiere screening at Comic-Con on July 21, 2023.This cool structure will be part of Hulu’s Animayhem activation behind the San Diego Convention Center.And beyond it, you can see the big Star Trek wrap on a Marriot Marquis tower.Archer prop probably needs to be transported over to the FX area.More structures being set up for Hulu’s Animayhem.I can’t wait to check it out during Comic-Con!Adult Swim on the Green hasn’t made much construction progress, seemingly.The FX offsite this year is under construction. It appears to be less elaborate than usual.FX will promote its shows here.Alice in Wonderland and the mad tea party have been painted on the windows of Starbucks at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.Looking across Harbor Drive toward the huge Special Ops: Lioness building wrap.I love the FOX animation wrap on the Omni so much I took another pic today of one section!Looking toward the Gaslamp Quarter Archway from Gaslamp Square.Looking at Hard Rock Hotel from Gaslamp Square.Worker setting up the NBC offsite at Gaslamp Square.The NBC activation appears to have several structures.A big Yellowjackets wrap being applied to the front of the Hard Rock Hotel.This should look pretty cool when finished!Here’s one of the nearby Amazon Prime Video wraps: Invincible.Happy Does will be the site of Paramount’s “The Lodge” offsite.Workers busy getting The Lodge ready for Comic-Con.Part of the big Daryl Dixon wrap on the Pendry hotel. The dead are still walking on AMC.Dead City on a Pendry window.Fear the Walking Dead. I don’t want to become food, so I’ll keep my head on a swivel!A super cool activation at Ninth Avenue and J Street. It’s the Sonic the Hedgehog Speed Cafe!Sonic runs across an East Village window.A few would-be-Sonics were waiting in line for the unique culinary experience. Hungry fans weren’t moving too quickly, but quite excited!
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With four days to go until Comic-Con 2023 Preview Night, preparation for a massive crowd of pop culture fans descending on downtown San Diego is now in high gear!
Many Comic-Con offsites are in the early stages of construction. More buildings wraps are appearing in the Gaslamp Quarter and by the San Diego Convention Center.
Enjoy these photos from my long, very fun walk late this Friday afternoon!
Twisted Metal banners line Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade.A meaty wrap on one side of the Hilton Gaslamp.The big Fox Animation Domination wrap on the Omni appears over half finished.The stylish Interview With The Vampire graphics on the Hilton Gaslamp are among my favorites.
The following structure that has been erected in Gaslamp Square will promote NBC’s classic show Quantum Leap…
More fun FOX animation graphics on the Omni…
FX has begun building their Comic-Con offsite in their usual spot–the grass in front of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel.
Looks like FX will have a big stage or video screen.
I suspect the big wrap on the Hilton will promote a show on FX.
Adult Swim has returned to their usual spot behind the San Diego Convention Center after their absence last year. They were just beginning to set up their offsite on the green.
A cool new offsite by Hulu, promoting Ani-mayhem, is setting up in the parking lot behind the convention center.
I climbed the stairs behind the convention center…
Look at all the trucks behind the San Diego Convention Center. They’re here for the big Morgan Wallen concerts at nearby Petco Park.Getting things ready under the sails of the convention center.
I got some great views from the convention center…
Back on Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp, I checked out more Amazon Prime Video wraps…
Oops! Well, maybe that’s a new superpower.
And finally a look toward the Marriott Marquis hotel, as a big ESRI building wrap comes down and one promoting Star Trek goes up!
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Everywhere one turns in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter there’s an explosion of color. Building wraps and banners are now rapidly appearing for Comic-Con 2023!
This is some of what I saw late Thursday afternoon, with less than a week to go before the start of Comic-Con.
And there will almost certainly be much more to come!
After the big Esri User Conference concludes today at the San Diego Convention Center, huge building wraps will likely appear on the sides of Petco Park, and on the Hilton San Diego Bayfront and the Marriott Marquis hotels!
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Look what I discovered today on my way home from work. There’s a second side to the Futurama trolley wrap that recently debuted for San Diego Comic-Con 2023!
I photographed the first side of Hulu’s promotional wrap yesterday and posted those photos here. On this second side there are four more crazy Futurama characters!
I see Amy Wong, Hermes Conrad, Kif Kroker and Professor Farnsworth!
Comic-Con 2023 is now only a month away! As I continue to discover cool Comic-Con sights, I’ll share them. Stay tuned for more pop culture fun!
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I’ll be covering Comic-Con again this year. To see all my current and past blog posts concerning Comic-Con, click here and scroll down!
I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
A cool new San Diego Trolley wrap has debuted for Comic-Con 2023! This one promotes new episodes of Futurama that are coming soon to Hulu!
It has been announced that Season 11 of the animated sci-fi comedy series will begin on July 24, 2023. Looks like Leela, Philip J. Fry, Bender and Zoidberg will be back for more “ani-mayhem” and futuristic fun!
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What is Trino’s World? It’s a world of cartoon fun that opened today at San Diego’s Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park!
Trino is the “pen” name of popular, award-winning Mexican cartoonist José Trinidad Camacho. You might recognize some his wacky characters.
With his humorous, often irreverent art, Trino both lampoons and celebrates Mexican life. I noticed that his subjects include lucha libre, movies, soccer, politics, ordinary people…
The funny thing is, his humor can provoke laughter from just about everybody. His wry illustrations can resonate with many. Human foibles seem to be universal.
The cool artwork on display for Trino’s World comes from the artist’s personal collection. This is the first exhibition of Trino art in a United States museum.
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The Animation Academy – from Pencils to Pixels officially opens tomorrow at the Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park!
Members of the Comic-Con Museum got a preview of the incredible new exhibition today!
Who doesn’t love animated features and cartoons? We all have our favorites, right? Well, chances are some of your best-loved television shows and movies pop up in this delightful exhibition.
The Animation Academy, as its name suggests, is both educational and interactive. Every sort of technology that has produced animation is explored, from early magic lanterns and spinning thaumatropes and phenakistoscopes(!), to state-of-the-art non-photorealistic rendering and 3D printing.
Not only will you learn about the rich history of animation, and the artists and studios who’ve added to the popular culture, but there are several opportunities for visitors to create their own animated masterpieces!
Among the numerous displays are realistic recreations of work stations, puppets and miniature sets that demonstrate what it’s like to be a stop motion animator.
Fans of Gumby and Looney Tunes, in particular, will be excited to find themselves immersed in well done, interactive displays.
Do you love Bugs Bunny and his friends? You’ll have a chance to view all sorts of original sketches, drawings and animation cells. You’ll even see the typewriter used by legendary Chuck Jones. (Did you know Chuck Jones was inspired by Mark Twain? I didn’t!)
The exhibition encourages curiosity and creativity. Kids will surely enjoy it. Adults with imagination and a sense of fun absolutely will, too!
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In El Cajon, highly advanced aliens from distant planets, the Space Brothers, are going to be welcomed with open arms by this interesting group.
Have I ever encountered extraterrestrials? Well, I’m not sure. I definitely saw an Unidentified Flying Something nine years ago, which I photographed here!
It’s almost Friday! Let the fun begin!
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Bob’s Burgers is being celebrated during Comic-Con in the craziest, most unique way imagineable!
Have you ever eaten a donut that contains a hamburger?
Hurry down to the world-famous Donut Bar this Friday morning, July 22, and you can eat one of the tasty hamburger-inside-a-donut concoctions. It’s called the I Donut Not Want a Donut Burger. (Yes, English teachers, that’s a double negative.)
I’ve already devoured one. Believe it or not, they’re really, really, really great!
You’ll also see the super friendly Donut Bar crew dressed up as the Belcher family characters from Bob’s Burgers!
The Donut Bar is located at 631 B Street. If you’re attending Comic-Con and want a very cool experience, swing on by this morning before the donuts are sold out!
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Every Comic-Con, it seems, Peanuts has a heart-warming activation in the Gaslamp outside the San Diego Convention Center.
For 2022, their special offsite supports The Armstrong Project. You can find it by simply walking with the Comic-Con crowds along Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade.
Peanuts fans know that Franklin Armstrong was one of many beloved characters created by Charles Schulz. Visitors to the activation will find displays explaining how the idea of introducing Franklin came about. They’ll also learn how others were inspired by the new character . . . including a future cartoonist also named Armstrong.
I recommend visiting. Read the thoughtful displays and become inspired, yourself.
Here’s a sample…
A Los Angeles school teacher, Harriet Glickman, wrote Schulz shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.. She believed Peanuts could provide a positive message about race. Franklin Armstrong was introduced to the comic strip in 1968.Franklin has many friends and helps them in class. The comic strip stood against segregation. Franklin is an active, confident kid who is quietly conscientious.Charlie Brown first meets Franklin at the beach.Peanuts Worldwide has launched endowments to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The Armstrong Project is named after both Franklin Armstrong and cartoonist Robb Armstrong, creator of the strip Jump Start, who was inspired by the character Franklin.
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