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'We're seeing an increase in all pro categories. Any new hassles in registering are not the result of increased favor to non-comics passes.

It sounds to me like a case of increased demand and some changes in policy cross-pollinating with a technical failure on that first day to result in some frustrated comics people. Still, I wanted to check with them on a couple of things, so I exchanged e-mails with their PR point man David Glanzer about what happened, why people got upset. So anything I have to say about the way other people react is going to be potentially distorted: I got mine, and more besides. I also have no problem registering for that show as a reasonably valuable (to them) member of the press, I think because of our focus on the comics part of the show. Comic-Con International is a longtime CR advertiser, so there's that. Let's be up front that I have a double bias here. Very few of us see a future of comics without ourselves somehow involved. It's no secret that when comics people write about the future of comics, it's almost always through the prism of what they themselves enjoy consuming and perhaps even making. But it's not like myopia is a rare thing for comics. That unnamed show, and people's reactions to other folks' plight, have improved since then. This seemed to me at the time to be really ungenerous in terms of what had just gone down. At an event where people were being sent home, there was a flurry of 'Wow, what an exciting adventure this is' writing from people that either were able to get in or even snuck into the show in some way. I will always remember one convention in particular as the kind of ultimate example of this.

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I was curious about the articles I read here and here about professional registration for San Diego's Comic-Con International, and the tweets I also saw about people's frustrations with the process, some of which made it into the first linked-to article.Д¬omics culture has this odd but understandable element to it where everything gets processed immediately and through very self-involved mechanisms. Go, Look: Whit SpurgeonвЂ™s Photos From Last NightвЂ™s Sandy-Relief Related Hawkeye Signing In BurbankДЇestivals Extra: Comic-Con Pro Registration Rumblings Those interested in buying comics talked about in Bart Beaty's articles might try here. Midway through the first day, I'd say the show is running better than expectations, which is nice to be able to say. Outside of the Uderzo show the crowds haven't been too bad, but I've also not been to the big tents, so I'm in no position to judge. Weather has gone from rainy to sunny over the course of the day, and it is much warmer than typical for Angouleme, so that is a good thing. Beautiful, beautiful work on display in a way that really showcases the talent. The best exhibition I've seen so far is the Flemish one, curated by Brecht Evens and featuring cartoonists of his generation. In the other hall is a show bringing together cartoonists and contemporary French artists that might have been the worst thing I have ever seen at this Festival. The Baudoin exhibition - from his book about Salvador Dali - in the side room is as stunning as you would expect a Baudoin show to be. Over at the 'new museum' the permanent exhibition has some notes from Jean-C Denis, but is not much changed from recent years. Jano is criminally unknown in the US, which is a shame because he is very talented. Upstairs, the Jano exhibition was really pleasant, including a number of sculptures that he has recently produced, which I really enjoyed.

The show itself is a bit of a mixed bag - a lot of reproductions and limited number of originals, but some of the originals are really key (including the first-ever Asterix page). His show was thronged while he was in it, but I elbowed hundreds of schoolchildren out of the way to capture these photos of the legendary co-creator of Asterix.

Uderzo arrived this morning at FIBD to tour his blockbuster exhibition (queue was about an hour long this morning), give a master class and to have a school named after him (seriously!). On the first morning of FIBD the question arises: Can Comics Reporter's intrepid boy reporter (and his little white dog) capture an image of the most famous cartoonist alive today on planet earth? Yes, yes he can! Bart Beaty In Angouleme 2013 02: Bartarazzi

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