Broccoli Books Blog

Hi, tis blogger Shiz from San Diego.

Set up is all done & we survived Preview Night.

I do like the staff of San Diego Comic Con, but I wish they would do without Preview Night. If we’re setting up from 7:00am, we don’t make happy sales clerks at 6:00pm to 9:00pm. That’s 14 hours of work (minus lunch breaks & short naps).

Anyhoo, we have a lovely manga reading section at the Broccoli & Aurora booth. I thought I took photos of the reading area, but I completely forgot! I’ll take photos tomorrow & post them up.

Please come by and read our latest manga on the lovely chairs. They’re in my favorite color green ^_^

MangaCast Ed came by the booth, but I didn’t recognize him because he had a full beard. “Who’s that old guy looking right at me… oh, It’s Ed!”

Former co-workers Katie & Steve came by the booth too. But I was too distraught over misplacing my favorite pen that I couldn’t chat w/ them much.

I also didn’t have a lot of things to do for Preview Night, so I walked around to check out the freebies. Hasbro booth is giving away Transformers post-its (yay!) and magnets. WB booth is giving away gigantic bags that look great, but are really too big to carry around when you’re 5-feet-2.

VIZ is doing something like a stamp rally, but with metallic pins. I collected 3 of them so far… but I’d like to say Broccoli was the first to do stamp rally at a US con with NISA for Disgaea. (cuz I like to implement fun things they do at Japanese conventions in the US)

Here’s all the stuff I got today.

I also stopped by the PMBQ booth and picked up two draw-string backpacks. Her animal characters are so cute, I like to buy things from her. I’ll go around to other independent artists’ booths tomorrow.

Tomorrow, former sales manager Ardith is coming to check out the Dr Who panel. What a gee… um, nothing.

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