It's almost the most wonderful time of the year... No, not Christmas. Even better, it's time for the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con! If you don't already know this, then this doesn't concern you because you have missed your window to purchase tickets. It's okay to be bitter about it, it's only natural. For those lucky ones who managed to get a pass in time, the schedule for Wednesday, July 20th and Thursday, July 21st has been released.
Happy two weeks until #SDCC2016!! Wednesday & Thursday Programming Schedules are here! #ToucanTip #ToucanBlog https://t.co/D4PdNLVnVz
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Wednesday Evening Preview Night
Wednesday has been designated as Preview Night, so the schedule only consists of two slots. From 4:00pm to 6:00pm, you can attend "Teaching with Comics: An Interactive Workshop for Educators" to help professionals better address the learning needs of their students and integrate comic books into their K-12 classrooms.
From 6:00pm to 10:00pm, Warner Bros. Television teams up with Comic-Con for their annual Preview Night Tradition. Here, you can view "exclusive world premiere screenings of the pilot episodes of five of the most highly anticipated series of the 2016-17 television season." These shows include Riverdale, Powerless, People of Earth, Frequency, and Time After Time. There will also be a viewing of the newest episode of Teen Titans Go!
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How To Survive Thursday Madness?
Thursday's schedule is intensely jam-packed, so get ready for what's coming your way. We know how overwhelmingly amazing Comic-Con can be, so to help you find your needle in a haystack, we've highlighted in bold our selection of the events we personally wouldn't miss out on.
Thursday Morning 10:00-11:00am
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10:00am: Becoming Nerdstrong; CW3PR's 3rd Annual Behind-The-Music: Crime, Death and Resurrection; DC Collectibles; Feed Your Head: The VFX of Alice Through the Looking Glass; From Fan to Creator: Goal-Setting for Creative Types; Little Fish Comic Book Studio: Building The Artistic Tomorrow; Spotlight on Kieron Gillen; The Dynamic World of Disney Comics; The Graphic Novel Medium; Weekly Shonen Jump Podcast Panel; Dreamworks Animation Theatrical
10:15am: Teen Titans Go! Video Presentation and Q&A
10:30am: Comic-Con How-To: Plot Structure The Philosophy Behind Story Creation; Comics Arts Conference #1: The Joker: Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime; How to Get News Coverage; Relaunching the Battlestar Franchise; Sea of Thieves: Art of Adventure; Spotlight on Peter David; Comic Book Law School 101: Genesis
Thursday Morning 11:00am-Noon
11:00am: Celebrate the Publishing World of Jim Henson's Labyrinth with Archaia; Cosplaying 101: Bringing Your Dreams to Life; Free Comic Book Day in the Library; Love & Rockets: Past, Present and Future; Masters Of The Web: How We Got Started, How You Can Get Started; Spotlight on Alex Sinclair; Spotlight on Lisa Hanawalt; Spotlight on Maggie Thompson; The 4th Annual Musical Anatomy of a Superhero; This Week in Marvel: Live; Top Shelf Productions: Live!; Transformers Generations: More Than Meets The Eye with Machinima
11:15am: Happy Happy Joy Joy; Comic-Con How-To: Graphic Novels from Idea to Finish with Brian Haberlin
11:30am: DC All Access: No Boundaries; Spotlight on G. Willow Wilson; Spotlight on Howard Chaykin; The Relationship Between Artist and Model; Comics Arts Conference #2: Comics, Place, and Space
11:45am: Street Fighter Nation; Snowden
Thursday From Noon-1:00pm
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12:00pm: CBLDF: Navigating The Powers & Perils of Banned Books; Comics are Literacy, Too!; Getting Into Comics and Staying There; IDW & The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center Present Crossover: Where Comics & Science Meet; Jakks Pacific: Insider Fan Panel; Justice League Action Video Presentation and Q&A; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Mycroft; New Authors Making a Splash in the Literary Pool; Raising Fankids: Teaching Young Geeks to be Self Confident and Successful; The Comixologist Traveling Podcast Party; The Pitching Hour; The Smitten Word: Romancing the Reader; Welcome to the Whedonverse; The Geek & Sundry Panel; CBS Television Studios Block - including Scorpion, American Gothic and MacGyver
12:30pm: Comic-Con How-To: Helping Teens Use Their Powers to do Good; Grant Morrison & Graphic India: Myth & Legends; Moana: Art of Story; The Business of Creativity: Can Comics Find the Balance?; UDON 2016
12:45pm: Spotlight on Jim Lee
Thursday From 1:00-2:00pm
1:00pm: Adapting Octavia Butler: The Making of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation; Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare - Behind the Scenes of the Immersive Narrative; CBLDF: She Changed Comics; From Concepts to Comics: A Conversation About Editing in the Comics Industry; Hey, You Got Science In My Fiction; Marvel: Breaking Into Comics the Marvel Way; Mattel & WWE Fan Panel; On the Mic Podcast Live from San Diego Comic-Con; Something for Everyone: Indie Comics; Spotlight on Sarah J. Maas; The Nerdist Panel with Chris Hardwick; The Simpsons and SpongeBob Smile-Time Hour; Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets; Inside the World of Geek Cosmetics; Comics Arts Conference #3: Comics and Latin America
1:30pm: Comic-Con How-To: Starting a Comic Creator Community; Fiction vs. Reality: An Investigation of Science in Movies; First Second Tenth Anniversary Celebration; Nerd Trivia Challenge: Author Edition; Star Trek: 50th Year Celebration with Roddenberry Entertainment
1:45pm: USA Network's FALLING WATER: World Premiere Screening
Thursday From 2:00-3:00pm
2:00pm: Comic Book Women: Understanding Coloring and Lettering in Comics; Comics and Animation Story Boards; DC: One-On-One with Paul Dini; Digital Color for Comics; Foam Costume/Cosplay Fabrication; Graphic Novel Collection Development; IDW and Hasbro: The Revolution is Now; Image Comics: Creating the Zeitgeist; Meet Comic-Con HQ; State of the Holodeck; The 2000 AD Thrill-Power Hour; Thunderbirds Are Go; Transformers Animation: Then and Now; Two Packs A Week: The Trading Card Comedy Show
2:15pm: Gears of War 4: Creators, Characters and Cast; Feral Audio Live with Dan Harmon and his Podcast Pals
2:30pm: Comics Arts Conference #4: Latin American Comic Arts: Dialogues and Perspectives from Chilean Artists and Critics; comiXology Ask Me Anything; Star Trek: Where Lawyers Boldly Go; Warhammer 40,000 Panel; Comic-Con How-To: Traditional Sculpting with the Shiflett Brothers
Thursday From 3:00-4:00pm
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3:00pm: 1986: There Can Be Only One; Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security in the Entertainment Industry; Destination: Nerd; Dreamworks' Voltron: Legendary Defender; Early History of Comic Book Films; Fantasy Mixology: The Perfect Literary Cocktail; H.P. Lovecraft & Steam Engines of Oz: Arcana's Animation Slate; Making the Leap to Creator Owned Properties: Tales from the IP Jungle; NBC's The Good Place: World Premiere Screening and Q&A with Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Michael Schur and Drew Goddard; Snoopy for President: Politics in Peanuts; The Art Heroines; TNT's The Last Ship: Panel and Exclusive Sneak Peek; We Need Diverse Comics; Writing 101: What to Think About Before You Start Writing; How to Host a Library Comic Con!
3:15pm: DC Rebirth: Young Gotham/ Young Metropolis; The Strain: Screening and Q&A
3:30pm: Make Your Own Story; The Eisner Effect on American Publishing; The Mark, Sergio, Stan and Tom Show; Under the Radar; Warcraft: The Road to Legion; What Was Old is New Again: IDW's New Formats for Classic Comics
Thursday From 4:00-5:00pm
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4:00pm: Be A Financial Superhero Even If You Aren't Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne; CBLDF Podcast Live: Banned Authors Speak Out; Crockett Johnson's Barnaby: What Makes a Great Comic Strip; Essential Deserted Island Comics; Geek's More Greatest Movies & TV Never Made: The Threequel; Marvel: Death of X; Retellings & Remixes; Silicon Valley Panel and Q&A; Spotlight on Jason Aaron; The Forgotten Trio: Inkers, Letterers, and Colorists; Top 10 Tips to Up Your Comics Art Game; VIZ Media Comic-Con How-To: Painting in Acrylic
4:15pm: The Man in the High Castle
4:30pm: Cartoon Creatives: Women Power in Animation; Christopher J. Priest: Adventures in the Funnybook Game; MTV Teen Wolf; Skybound's The Walking Dead; The Enduring Allure of Grimm's Fairy Tales: Live Reading and Discussion; The Zone Show: Underground 3-D Comics; Vertigo; Making Comics in the Library
4:45pm: USA Network's Colony Panel with the Cast and Creators
Thursday From 5:00-6:00pm
5:00pm: Captain America 75th Anniversary; Comic Book Women: Working with Licensed vs. Creator Owned Characters; DC Master Class: Art History; Fandom Diversified: Changing Dynamics of Nerd Media; Making a Living in Manga: From Fan to Pro; Queer History in Comics; Re-Imagining Reality: Bringing Games into the Real World with Ingress and Pokemon GO; The Nappy Hour; Van Helsing; Video Game Comics: Level Up; World of Capcom
5:30pm: Cartoon Art Museum Family Drawing Dynamite Entertainment: The Art of the Deal Kotobukiya Summer Preview and Product Update Mormons in Comics Nerdist TV: The Boundary Pushers The Most Dangerous Women at Comic-Con: To Bechdel, Or Not to Bechdel
5:45pm: Sausage Party Filmmaker Conversation; Marvel's Luke Cage; The Core of Collecting
Thursday From 6:00-7:00pm
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6:00pm: Being a Nerd for a Living: IGN Talks Movies, TV and Comics; Bringing Primetime to Comic Shops: All About Comics From Television; Bubble Comics Russia: How to Create a Comic Book Industry from Scratch; Chicano Comics and Public Art in San Diego; Funimation Industry Panel; Inside the Voice Actors Studio; LGBTQ Geek Year in Review; Mad About MAD; Masquerade 101; Streetpass San Diego: Gaming Communities and Changing with Time; USA Network's Mr. Robot: Panel Discussion with the Cast; Comedy Central's Drunk History and Legends of Chamberlain Heights
6:30pm: Comics PR & Marketing 101; Death and the High Cost of Resurrection; SuperheroIRL: How Pop Culture Media Brings Justice and Healing; Swipe Right with Simon and Schuster
6:45pm: Behind The Scenes of Overwatch's Newest Hero
Thursday From 7:00-8:00pm
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7:00pm: Dark Matter: Season 2; DVD-Duesday Live; Europe vs. USA: European and American Creators Meet; Heavy Metal: This Panel Goes to 11; Hip-Hop & Comics: Cultures Combining; Hollyweird Science: Science Fiction as Inspiration; Kick9 Games Panel: MOBA Legends; Lost in Translation; Marvel Goes Steampunk; Props and Weapons: Supersize It; The New Comics Journalism: Representation For All
7:15pm: Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation
7:30pm: Artist as Brand: Rise of the Artist Entrepreneur; Deleted Scenes; It Gets Geekier: How Being Gay and Nerdy Turned Out for the Best; Legacy Effects: The Secret Partner
Thursday From 8:00-10:30pm
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8:00pm: Breaking Badder: Suicide Squad and the Dawn of the Heroic Villain; Bring Your Idea to Hollywood; Ghost of Name That Movie: The Sequel; Independent Toy Designers: From Pants to Pajamas; Jimmy Olsen Asks the Tough Questions on Kryptonian Justice; Psychology of Cult TV Shows: Episode 3; Star Trek: How We Got To 50; The 501st Legion: Star Wars Villainous Costuming; The 19th Annual Superhero Kung Fu Extravaganza
8:15pm: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
8:30pm: Black Mask Comics: Debuting Tomorrow's Legends; Cartoon Network Costume Ball & Screening; Robotech: A Look to the Future; Webcomics Advocates: The Webcomics Gathering; Comics on Comics: Live; Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog
9:00pm: George Clayton Johnson Memorial Gathering; Hall H and Ballroom 20 Thursday Playback Free Play
They've got that new book smell. Comic-Con Souvenir Books hot off the presses. These will be available to pick up in the Sails Pavilion! #SDCC2016 : G. Sassaman 2016 SDCC
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