It’s finally Preview Night at Comic-Con 2022. And the fun has already begun!
Crowds are gathering and offsite activations are nearly ready, or actually open in some cases, such as The Gray Man Training Program by NETFLIX.
A bit of cosplay is appearing here and there.
Lots of fans, many with swag bags slung over shoulders, are getting a peek inside the convention center, before Comic-Con “officially” begins tomorrow!
I walked around outside in the late afternoon with my camera to capture a little bit of the fun!
The crowd is growing in the afternoon of Comic-Con Preview Night. A photo past the Gaslamp Quarter arch toward the San Diego Convention Center.The Hard Rock Hotel is now Lumon Industries of the Apple TV+ show Severance.It’s Rocketeer! He’s on the cover of this year’s Comic-Con Souvenir Book. (Flying over the El Cortez Hotel, where Comic-Con got started years ago.)Medieval figures mingle in front of the castle that promotes HBO’s upcoming House of the Dragon.This would make for one very cool farmer’s market!Miles Morales Spider-Man poses with a big smile! I think Spidey just defeated Mysterio.A crowd oohs and ahhs at one of the Audible sand sculptures.Folks were already lined up for The Gray Man offsite. I think these might have been media folk. I’m a mere blogger.Run for it!Looks at all the humanity near the San Diego Convention Center.Watch out! It’s Saturnino with a head!You might want to watch out for Chucky, too.Herman Munster and pals are on the scene promoting COZI TV.A hugemungous Sesame Street Mecha Builders inflatable Cookie Monster! Watch out for falling crumbs!Someone said that’s Ozzy Osbourne. A super creepy version, I guess!The Bob’s Burgers Movie activation on the grass near the Omni will be handing out free hamburgers starting Thursday! I’ll be there!Just wait ’til you see the massive crowds starting tomorrow.Fear not! Moon Knight and Doctor Strange are here to save the day!
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Cosplayers converged in the Gaslamp this morning, the day of Comic-Con Preview Night, to take part in an MTS press conference.
2022 Comic-Con is right around the corner, and downtown San Diego is abuzz. My camera is now in high gear.
Check out these cosplaying members of the Science Fiction Coalition!
Dude Vader has become a San Diego and Comic-Con fixture over the years. Christopher Canole is a super nice guy, too!It’s Ms. Marvel and Alvin, here to save the day!Arwen Evenstar is joined by an elf friend from Middle Earth.Spider-Man and Moon Knight join forces for a photograph!Supervillains in San Diego better make your escape now.Here comes Ms. Marvel again with a steampunky character.A classic Spidey pose!
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If you’re walking up Fifth Avenue during Comic-Con, and you’re wondering what happened to the Chuck Jones Gallery, fear not!
Even though the gallery itself moved some time ago to San Diego’s Little Italy neighborhood, a pop-up Chuck Jones activation can be found in the Gaslamp Quarter at 530 Sixth Avenue! (A few steps north of the Dungeons & Dragons offsite, inside the Sparks Gallery.)
I previewed The Chuck Jones Comic-Con Pop Up Gallery this afternoon as pieces by popular artists were being arranged for public display and sale. There’s something for everyone, including Star Wars, Marvel, and DC Comics art by well known artists, like Alex Ross.
For 2022 Comic-Con, the Chuck Jones pop up will also present several artists and animators that the public can meet. You can see the lineup at their website here.
The Chuck Jones Gallery Pop Up opens up tomorrow, Wednesday, July 20 during Comic-Con Preview Night!
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The amount of cool stuff popping up for 2022 Comic-Con is mind-blowing! A walk around downtown San Diego this Monday afternoon yielded more fun photos!
Among the burgeoning pop culture sights are vampire drinks, a large, rampaging Great Ape, a Starfleet Outpost, amazing sand sculptures, and some large, creepy dolls. And loads of the other stuff that I’ve already covered during previous walks!
I suppose what I really like about this time of year is how thousands of creative ideas suddenly come together and flower simultaneously in one place. It’s like some sort of human miracle.
Of course, the dreamers, creators, planners, builders, deciders all contribute innumerable hours of combined effort. But look what can suddenly arise if many minds and hands come together!
Why does so much of the popular culture center upon fantasy, science fiction, absurdity and horror? Because, I suppose, our brains are wired for survival. They become excited and active when faced by unknowns…
Crates that were marked Picard have been unloaded into the Starfleet Outpost, a Comic-Con offsite by Paramount+. The public can swing by starting Thursday. It’s located at Happy Does on Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter.Lots of colorful building wraps cover the Hilton Gaslamp. All four sides, in fact!Yikes. I knew Butt-Head would eventually show up.The three Audible sand sculptures on MLK Promenade are becoming more incredible as the sand artists do their thing.The modest Krapopolis offsite by FOX is a bit hidden, across from The New Childrens Museum. Hopefully people can find it. Look for the Super Slide sign above some trees.The big The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power wrap is coming along on one of the Marriott Marquis towers.It’s Great Ape Vegeta rampaging through the Bandai offsite behind the Marriott! I don’t think it can do much damage without its hands, however.Spotted in the distance between two crates.Looking at big The Rings of Power wrap from the San Diego Bay side.Forklifts lined up behind the San Diego Convention Center, with the American Horror Stories dolls wrap on the Hilton looking ever more creepy.Here come The Incredible Hulk! Thank goodness he’s in a good mood.Flying a kite where the Adult Swim on the Green has been in past years. I thought Abbott Elementary was going to set up somewhere back here, but I don’t see them yet.As I crossed the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge, I saw several large The Rookie wraps going up on Petco Park. Those workers on super duper cherry pickers work fast.Well, whoever is going to build the Petco Park Interactive Zone here better get busy. They have two days to do it!The Rookie: Feds is being promoted by ABC at 2022 Comic-Con in a big way!And the big Krapopolis wrap on the Omni, promoting an upcoming animated FOX show, is almost done.Someone checks their phone beneath the IGN balcony outside the Hard Rock Hotel. Keep your eyes on this balcony for celebrities during Comic-Con.NBCUniversal is getting their NBCU Corner ready now. I see a bunch of Good Guys graphics. Those might be going into the Tin Fish.Quantum Leap is back on NBC this Fall.And here is Reginald the Vampire, coming to Syfy. No, I’m not thirsty. Thank you.
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Isabel Garcia is painting the windows of Starbucks for 2022 Comic-Con! I saw her today as I walked behind the convention center near the Hilton San Diego Bayfront!
Isabel is a local artist and muralist, part of Arte Atolondrada. Her creative partner is Shirish Villaseñor, who paints the windows of nearby Sweet Things Frozen Yogurt during Comic-Con!
If you’d like to check some of their mural work around San Diego, click here or here or here!
In the past few days, I’ve photographed the progress of Shirish’s windows for 2022 Comic-Con. You can see that here and here!
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Check this out! Three big sand sculptures are being built right now in downtown San Diego for 2022 Comic-Con!
An area by Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade, just east of 1st Avenue, near the Convention Center trolley station, will be the site of the The Audible Beach, promoting Audible’s original new shows.
I was told by one artist compacting sand in one of those wooden frames that the sculptures will include Sherlock Holmes, from the Audible show Moriarty: The Devil’s Game!
I’ll definitely be photographing these sand sculptures over the next few days as they take shape!
UPDATE!
If you’d like to see how these sand sculptures turned out several days later (and they are AMAZING), click here!
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What’s this? It looks like 2022 Comic-Con has begun to slowly materialize by the San Diego Convention Center!
Local artist and muralist Shirish Villaseñor (@shirishtheartist) has begun painting the windows of Sweet Things Frozen Yogurt at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. She’ll be working to complete the fun artwork in the coming days.
I’ll swing by to take more photos as these many painted characters assume color and life.
Meanwhile, for the next two weeks Cool San Diego Sights is in full Comic-Con mode! I live downtown, an easy walk from the huge international pop culture event.
Fear not! I’ll return to more “normal” San Diego sights once Comic-Con concludes!
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Chainsaw Man has arrived in San Diego for 2022 Comic-Con. The terrifying manga character is riding a MTS bus through downtown!
Crunchyroll is applying different wraps to a number of public transit buses. This is the third one I’ve spotted so far.
Chainsaw Man is also an upcoming anime that Crunchyroll will distribute outside of Asia.
Who is Chainsaw Man? A poor young man named Denji, who meets a dog-like devil which grants him the ability to transform his body into multiple chainsaws; he then joins the Public Safety Devil Hunters to use his horrific saws on devils.
Okay. That certainly sounds plausible. In the world of human imagination!
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Early this morning I walked in Logan Heights to see a super cool Batman mural I’d heard about by San Diego street artists Fizix.
But first I found more of his art in the neighborhood!
Let me share this mural painted by Fizix on one side of Stoody Industrial & Welding Supply, located at 33rd Street and National Avenue.
The image of hardworking welders and workers is awesome!
If the mural has something of a comic book look, that’s because San Diego illustrator, digital artist and muralist Alex Julian aka Fizix (@alexfizix) has a distinctive pop style that can also be found in his graphic novel art.
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Very few visitors to Balboa Park will see these fun birdhouses and artistically painted planter boxes. They’re a bit hidden behind the Centro Cultural de la Raza’s home, their repurposed water tank off Park Boulevard.
I believe the birdhouses were created in 2021 and are designed for owls. The way they’re painted certainly suggests that!
It appears at least some of the planter boxes were painted this year.
I took this series of photographs Sunday as I walked randomly around waiting for a San Diego Fringe Festival performance to begin. I thought I’d share them.
Enjoy!
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