PWCW walked the floor of Comic-Con International 2008 and brought back lots of pictures of the events and personalities that make the San Diego Comic-Con the biggest comics and pop culture event of the year. And there are more pictures from our special Saturday, July 26 PWCW Comic-con issue published directly from San Diego located here.


Love and Rockets' Los Bros. (l. to r.) Gilbert Hernandez, daughter (and budding cartoonist) Natalia and Jaime. Photo by J. Culkin


Superstar comics writer Grant Morrison. Photo by J. Culkin


Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan, Eisner winner for Exit Wounds. Photo by J. Culkin


Iron Man at the Marvel booth


Gene Yang, Eisner winner Nick Abadis (Laika) and Mark Siegel at the First Second booth. Photo by J. Culkin.


Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund


Superstar manga-ka Tite Kubo creator of Bleach. Photo courtesy Viz Media.


Superstar manga-ka Hiro Mashima (c.) creator of Fairy Tail.Photo by Kai-Ming Cha


Eisner Award winners Fabio Moon (r.) and Gabriel Bá


BET's Reggie Hudlin. Photo by J. Culkin.


G4TV's comics guru Blair Butler at the Attack of the Show Panel.She's also the covergirl on the latest issue of Comics Foundry


At the Dark Horse panel (l. to r.) Bruce Campbell, Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden. Photo by J. Culkin.


Abrams ComicArts panel (l. to r.) moderator PWCW's Calvin Reid, Abrams executive editor Charles Kochman, Denis Kitchen, Craig Yoe, Jordan Crane, Jaime Hernandez and Brian Fies.


Oni publisher Joe Nozemack and editor-in-chief James Lucas Jones


Del Rey Manga associate publisher Dallas Middaugh (note the new hat!) and hatless editor Tricia Narwani.


PWCW's Douglas Wolk, Eisner winner for his book of criticism, Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean


Keith Knight shows off his books


Debbie Huey, creator of Bumperboy


Comic-con vertigo. Photo by J. Culkin


Dirk Schwieger with his new book Moresukine at the NBM booth.


Jeremy Love at the Zuda booth


Spike holding volume 2 of Templar, Arizona.


Artist Ryan Dunlavey shows off copies of Comic Book Comics, a smart and funny history of the comics industry, created with writer Fred Van Lente


Eisner nominee for best comics related periodical, Comic Foundry with senior editor Laura Hudson (and also a PWCW contributor) with editor in chief Tim Leong


The Drawn and Quarterly crew (and the Beguiling's Peter Birkemore (l.) showed off copies of Lynda Barry's What It Is, Rutu Modan's Eisner winner Exit Wounds and the second volume of Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie's West African comedy, Aya.


Nikki Cook looking up, next to Larry Marder draw during the Drink and Draw Social at the CBLDF partry at Comic-con.


Full scale recreation of the Owlship from Watchmen at the Warner Bros. booth.


Yen Press's Kurt Hassler and Ju-Youn Lee show off the first issue of Yen Plus, the Hachette graphic novel imprint's monthly anthology of Korean and Japanese comcs--back to back in a 480-page magazine.