I recently got back from sunny San Diego. My good friend and distinguished cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier was scheduled to sign autographs for two hours a day at Comic-Con 2009. I decided to tag along, enjoy the nice weather and see all the geekdom first-hand. This event is a four-day blowout of all things comic books -- where publishers, artists, video game programmers and filmmakers gather to allow the fevered masses to fawn over them. It's a little bit of mayhem.

Now, I must point out that I know very little about comic books. Or comic book culture, for that matter. Probably less than the average person, and I’m assuming the average person doesn’t know The Green Lantern’s real name either. (It’s Hal Jordan, but I didn’t know that until midway through the weekend…) So while I couldn’t really enjoy the convention for the same reasons as the tens of thousands of other people who attended, I decided to document the trip while Paul fulfilled his duties at the Fantagraphics booth.

I made three videos and posted them to YouTube. The second one is my favorite, and you can see it below. (If you want to see the others, check out my YouTube site.) Within minutes of this video hitting the web, it started receiving comments from convention-goers. One person (thus far) even pointed out that I caught him and his costume with my camera.