Attending Comic-Con 2026 in San Diego? Got some extra time? You might want to head up to Balboa Park, where the Comic-Con Museum now features a number of cool exhibits, including a big one all about Doctor Who.
The Comic-Con Museum’s newest exhibit showcases the art of Charles Addams, who is best known for his popular creation The Addams Family. It’s titled Chas Addams: Family and Friends.
You’ll see a huge selection of his artwork. His wry, dark, humorous images might bring back memories of the Addams Family television show or the movie.
A variety of other subjects in his art might give you a chuckle, too!
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The City of San Diego’s annual Agewell Craft Sale was held this weekend in Balboa Park. Local artists came together at the Casa del Prado to sell unique crafts they’d made by hand.
I noticed a good crowd of people perusing the crafts today with only an hour to go in the sale. I enjoyed looking at the amazing crafts–every sort, including very original creations–which filled artist tables inside and outside the Casa del Prado. I saw lots of potential holiday gifts.
In addition, kids were making art in an activity corner and filling a North Pole postal box, there was a raffle, and entertainment by The Ukes of Hazard musical ukulele group was making everyone smile.
Okay, I especially liked some super funny crafts made by artist Leslie Wagoner. You can see a couple of her hilarious creations in my first two photographs, above and below.
Creativity and fun everywhere you turn…
Adult visitors were invited to create art, too!
Lastly, one kindly artist was selling beautiful crafts in order to raise funds in support of Nazareth Orphanage in Tecate, Mexico. The orphanage is home to young boys and girls whose parents are unable to care for them.
For over twenty years, Father Brian Kelly, a Navy Chaplain stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, has led volunteer efforts in support of Nazareth Orphanage.
If you’d like to read about this and perhaps provide a donation, click here.
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A group of San Diego Ghostbusters entered downtown’s historic Balboa Theatre this afternoon in order to capture a Class 5 Full Roaming Vapor.
Fortunately, the ghost-catching mission ended in a success. After trapping the rambunctious spirit, the ghostbusting experts departed from the Balboa Theatre’s stage so a gathered audience could watch a classic movie: the original Ghostbusters!
Those in attendance, before entering the theatre, had the opportunity to meet some of the San Diego Ghostbusters, who arrived in Ecto-1 and Ecto-RR1 ready for action with their proton packs.
Yes, this unique event was a lot of fun! The showing of 1980s comedy Ghostbusters was part of the Balboa Theatre’s Retro Rewind programming.
The Real San Diego Ghostbusters group takes part in parades, festivals and other special events around San Diego. Perhaps you’ve seen them. Visit their website here.
With their appearance, these friendly Ghostbusters were raising money for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. If you’d like to help out the charitable organization via Ghostbusters Give Back, click here!
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Comic-Con 2025 is about ready to begin in earnest! Fans are streaming into downtown San Diego for Preview Night!
My walk around the San Diego Convention Center and through the Gaslamp Quarter in the mid-afternoon kept my camera very busy.
Enjoy another collection of photos!
House of Blues has cool programming during Comic-Con 2025.These guys used lightsabers to remove a Predator’s head.All sorts of merch on display outside the Doctor Who offsite!Twisted activity expected here.Twisted Metal on Peacock graphic.Red Sonja is wanted by order of Emperor Draygan.Hot Wheels is back!Friendly sign spinner directs fans to the Comic-Con Blood Drive at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.Look at the line of buses!ABC will lift Abbott Elementary fans high into the San Diego sky.Graphics near entrance of the Voodoo Ranger offsite.Ramp down to Voodoo Ranger “pirate ship” has these cool graphics.Ahoy there, matey! Voodoo Ranger returns to Comic-Con.Looking south down the bayside boardwalk past King of the Hill’s offsite.Indiana Jones is here! Drinking from the Holy Grail has seemingly preserved his youth.Must Be This Crazy to Ride at Starr Park!Is that a cat mermaid at Adult Swim?Find two Smiling Friends at the Adult Swim activation behind the San Diego Convention Center.This way to Indigo Ballroom in the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.A view of offsites behind the convention center from the Hilton.Down there is the Superman offsite, a production of DC Comics and Old Spice. Does Superman sweat?This smiling guy wants you to ask questions!The Interactive Zone at Petco Park seems a bit sparse this year. At least, so far.The Labu-Tique Pop Up Shop at Petco Park!Lots of stuff has shown up near the Omni.That Thunderbolts graphic kind of looks like a cereal box.Yes, Stitch has huge ears.How adorable.Stitch surfs in San Diego!Spead ’em Nerds! I didn’t realize Liam Neeson can do the splits.A Triple Chocolate Feast sounds good right now.Fifth Avenue is going to be crazy the next four days!Cool sculpture at entrance to the Predator: Badlands activation.I’m not sure I’d want to be a friend of Frendo.Cheetos mascot on a bicycle!Coca Cola presents Holocreator starring you!Would you like to become a Sith?Fantastic Rewards can be grabbed by fans who enjoy the Google Play offsite.Mitchell, didgeridoo player from Balboa Park, has beamed down!Yikes! The Joker has arrived!
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Oh, dear! It seems Doctor Who’s famous TARDIS isn’t functioning properly. It arrived in San Diego for Comic-Con 2025 not by traveling through the Time Vortex, but in a big old truck! And in pieces!
Hopefully the reassembled TARDIS can be reactivated in time for San Diego Comic-Con. The Doctor Who UNIT’s Black Archive activation is set to open to the public at 10 am this coming Thursday. You’ll find the offsite activation along Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade.
Yes, I saw numerous crates marked BBC Studios unloading from the truck.
And I noticed with a bit of despair that there are only two TARDIS pieces in only one crate!
I hope this complex, living organism capable of traveling through time and space (stuck in the shape of a British police box) can be pieced together as easily as a book shelf from IKEA.
Visitors to the offsite would love to travel through space and time, I’m sure. But then, downtown San Diego every year during Comic-Con becomes its own peculiar world.
Is the Time Lord wandering about the city late this afternoon? One can already stumble upon a few unusual creatures…
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What’s more fun than borrowing a book from a little lending library? Borrowing a stick from a Dog Stick Library!
Canines have the opportunity to borrow a stick to carry in their mouths while walking with their human companions in North Park. An innovative Dog Stick Library is open on the sidewalk near the intersection of Upas Street and 29th Street!
Is this clever, or what?
The absurdity–and sheer originality–had me stop in my tracks the other day. I love it!
How many dogs take advantage of this little lending library box? It was stocked up with a fine selection of sticks. Whether your four-legged best friend is a large Great Dane or a little Pomeranian, there appeared to be a stick perfectly sized for any mouth.
Now, the question must be asked: Do responsible dogs return the sticks? In good condition?
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